I ask hon. Members to consider the present Crisis in the Machine Tool Industry and to pose the rhetorical question: what are the Government doing to help in that respect?

[That this House, gravely concerned about the Crisis in the Machine Tool Industry and, in particular about the decision of Alfred Herbert Limited, Coventry to make a further 530 workers redundant, with the serious consequences which will flow from this in wider areas, notably in the Churchill Machine Tool Company, Manchester, calls on Her Majesty's Government to use the occasion of the Bridget to make capital available, as a matter of urgency, to the machine tool industry to stop this dangerous decline, to assist the modernisation and re-equipment of British industry, and ensure full and stable employment.