asked the Secretary of State for Industry what proposals he has to maintain and develop manufacturing industry in South-East London following the official visit the Minister of State paid there on 28th January 1975.

Applications for industrial development certificates for locations in South-East London will be considered sympathetically, subject always to the overriding need to consider truly mobile projects as candidates for the assisted areas. My Department is additionally contributing to a number of studies of the special problems of inner city assisted areas being carried out by the Government as a whole.