We are faced with a Crisis in the Port of the Tyne.

The Crisis in the Port of London Authority should not blind us to conditions in ports on the west coast and on the east coast arising from the world trade depression which has obtained in recent years.

The Government have failed to come to terms with the scale and nature of the Crisis in Our Ports.

I do not believe that there is any other way to deal with Our Ports Crisis.

The criterion cannot be the level of Crisis in the Port.

Yet, within a matter of days of finishing quite a lengthy Transport Bill Committee stage, this new measure was brought forward, although, as the Minister fairly said, the Crisis in the Ports of London and Liverpool has not arisen in the past few months.

In view of the absence of a serious policy to deal with the Crisis in Our Ports, it is not surprising that the Government were flooded with applications from areas which are desperate for jobs.