HC Deb 11 May 1961 vol 640 cc618-9
14. Mrs. White

asked the Minister of Education when the Youth Service Development Council is to issue a report.

Sir D. Eccles

An account of progress in the youth service, including the work of the Youth Service Development Council, will be published in my Department's Annual Report for 1960.

Mrs. White

Useful as that may be, does not the right hon. Gentleman consider that it might be very helpful if a special report were made by this Council, of which I understand he is chairman? As my hon. Friend the Member for Bishop Auckland (Mr. Boyden) has pointed out, there is a good deal of anxiety about what is happening about the development of the Youth Service, and this might be a way of spreading information about what is being done.

Sir D. Eccles

I will consider that, but I hope that the hon. Lady sees our monthly bulletin called "Youth Service", which has a circulation of 22,000 copies and was started expressly for the purpose of reporting progress.

Mrs. White

It is a monthly publication, but it does not give the picture over the country as a whole, although it gives some very interesting information about certain experiments.