Youth Advisory Committee

HC Deb 08 December 1942 vol 385 cc1421-2

17. Mr. Kenneth Lindsay

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland the names of the members of the reconstituted Scottish Youth Advisory Council; their qualifications as members; and the terms of reference given to the Council?

Mr. Johnston

In selecting the members of the committee, I have had regard to their personal knowledge of and interest in the problems of adolescence and to their experience of youth service activities in one form or another. The terms of reference to the committee are to advise the Secretary of State on all questions affecting the welfare of Scottish youth. With the hon. Member's permission, I will circulate the list of members in the OFFICIAL REPORT.

Mr. Lindsay

Do I understand that the Scottish Home Department Committee, under Mr. Troup, has now been amalgamated with the education department through this committee?

Mr. Johnston

I do not appreciate the point of the hon. Member's Question.

Mr. Lindsay

I understood there was a committee dealing with the Home Department side of this work in Scotland hitherto, and that members of this committee have been absorbed in this committee. Is that so?

Mr. Johnston

There were two committees before, and they were both scrapped, and there is now this committee.

Mr. Lindsay

As a result of that, who is to be responsible for something like 8,000 or 9,000 delinquents in Scotland under the age of 14?

Mr. Johnston

If the hon. Gentleman will put a Question down, I shall be glad to look into it.

Following is the list referred to:

Chairman:

• The hon. Lord Keith.

Vice-Chairman:

• W. Quin, Esq., J.P.

Members:

• Harry Bell, Esq., M.A.
• Michael G. Black, Esq.
• William Boyd, Esq., M.A., D.Phil.
• Rev. W. E. Brown, D.D.
• Lieut.-Colonel T. E. Calvert.
• John Dick, Esq.
• Miss W. A. Donaldson, M.A.
• W. A. F. Hepburn, Esq., M.C., O.B.E., LL.D.
• Andrew Hood, Esq., J.P.
• W. B. Inglis, Esq., Ed.B., Ph.D.
• Miss Margaret F. Jobson.
• Samuel Macdonald, Esq., C.M.G., D.S.O.
• W. McKinlay, Esq.
• Miss May J. McKinlay.
• H. Stewart Mackintosh, Esq., M.A., Ph.D.
• Miss B. Martin Stewart.
• Mrs. W. N. Monteith.
• Stanley Nairne, Esq., M.A.
• W. Peat, Esq.
• Miss E. Porter.
• Colonel W. D. Scott, D.S.O., M.C., T.D., D.L., J.P.
• Rev. Denis E. Taylor.
• Miss B. W. Walker, M.B.E.
• Sir Ernest M. Wedderburn, D.K.S.
• Rev. W. M. Wightman, D.D.
• Provost George H. Wilson.
• John Wishart, Esq., M.A.