CONTIDENTIAL
MINISTER FOR INDUSTRY.
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Secretary (Industry) Mr Bullock. Dep Sec Mr Denman Dep Sec. Mr. Hughes
Mr Lam
Dep Sea
CRE 1
Mr Sandero CRE2
Mr Preston CRE3
Mr Goldsmith IC2
Mr Scholes
Mr Penrice
Mr Coffin
FEA
EcS3 Mr D Carter (3)
IC 3
Mr Warne
RID
Miss Lowne
C21
Mr NoEnery
CT2
TEXTILE POLICY
You have asked (Mr Walker's minute of 14 October) for
consideration to be given to the textile policy as announced
by Mr Crosland in July 1969 in the light of Lancashire's (!
complaints about increasing imports, the high level of
unemployment and the rising rate of mill closures.
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2 Since your meeting with the BTEA on 11 October, developmonto
in the EEC negotiations and the United States have caused us in
any case to begin looking at the possible need to retain or
introduce quantitative restraints on our imports of textiles.
This paper will be only an interim report on that, setting out
the options being studied. But it seems desirable to discuso
in rather wider terms as this paper also attempta to do
where Lancashire's problems lie and what more, if anything, the
Government could or should do about them. For it is already
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