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Mr. Symonds
asked the Minister of Labour, in view of the increase in the number of redundancies in West Cumberland as a result of pit closures, if he will set up a retraining centre in Cumberland as early as possible.
Mr. Thornton
I have considered this carefully but find that the industry and population of the area are insufficient to support a Centre of reasonably economic size.