and, particularly, to ascertain how far these transactions had produced the alarming Crisis of the Manufacturing, commercial, and financial affairs of the country in 1825–6, and in 1836–7; and also to inquire whether, as the Bank of England is at present constituted, there ever can be stability in the currency, or confidence in the commercial transactions of the country".

They were to inquire into the pecuniary transactions of the Bank of England since the resumption of cash payments, and they were more particularly to ascertain how far these transactions produced the alarming Crisis of the Manufacturing, commercial, and financial affairs of the country in 1825,1826, and in 1836, 1837; and also to inquire whether, as the Bank of England was at present constituted, there ever could be stability in the currency, or confidence in the commercial transactions of the country.

The report broadly and starkly depicts a Crisis in Manufacturing.

In the middle of a Manufacturing Crisis it is sheer insanity to cut investment, sell assets and pretend that all is well.

That is basic to the Manufacturing Crisis.

Moreover, at a time when the country faces a Crisis in Manufacturing, the closure represents the loss of real jobs producing goods which, for the most part, have a market.

The Crisis in Manufacturing is that training has been ripped out of it, and we now have very few apprenticeships, while countries such as Germany, France and Scandinavia are pushing forward.

Let us examine the scale of the Manufacturing Crisis which confronts this country.

They recognise the extent of the Manufacturing Crisis.

The President of the Board of Trade, or at any rate his Department, is aware of the extent of the Crisis in Manufacturing.

We have a Crisis in Manufacturing.

When there is a Crisis in Manufacturing, there is considerable public debate about the problem.

It simply not acceptable for the Government to wash their hands of the Crisis in Manufacturing and blame it on the collapse of Asian economies and the global market.

Why does he show such persistent callous indifference to the Manufacturing Crisis that he and his colleagues are creating?

I have attended three of these debates over the past 18 months and have noticed a vivid contrast between the low-key way in which we debate the Crisis in Manufacturing and the reaction in Parliament and among the public to problems in agriculture.

How many more UK plants need to leave for the far east before the Government recognise that there is a Crisis in Manufacturing?

Millions of pounds of government help have been put in for new schools, new hospitals and new roads, but there is a continuing Crisis in Manufacturing in north Staffordshire: 20,000 jobs have been lost in manufacturing alone in the past four years with all the knock-on effects.

Conservative Members of Parliament do not often quote Bill Morris of the TGWU, but he said: "Every sector is affected yet our politicians say 'Crisis in Manufacturing, what crisis?

Take the Crisis in Manufacturing.