asked the President of the Board of Trade why he is not prepared to grant a licence to the Melnick Selwyne Company, Limited, furniture manufacturers, to build a factory on the new Hollingbury Estate, Brighton; whether he is aware that such a factory would ease the unemployment problem in Brighton; and whether he will reconsider his decision.

The project does not satisfy the tests laid down in the Economic Survey for 1949 for new industrial building.