§ Mr. Patrick Jenkinasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if £160,000 is to be provided to establish a venereal disease clinic in West London; and if these funds will be sufficient to staff it full-time.
§ Mr. EnnalsKensington, Chelsea and Westminster Area Health Authority (Teaching) has a scheme in its 1978–79 capital programme to replace two existing units by a new Genito Urinary Unit at St. Stephens Hospital, Chelsea, at a capital cost of £160,000. The revenue and
258Wdiffering reference periods—for example whole working life, last 10 years—and with widely differing rules relating to the dynamisation of past earnings for calculation purposes.
Only Ireland and the United Kingdom have standard rates of sickness benefit, and in both countries an earnings-related supplement is normally payable on top for a limited period. In the other States sickness benefit is a proportion of previous earnings over a period in the recent past. There are varied systems to keep benefits in line with changes in earnings over the period of payment.
Standard levels of benefit for a single person as at 1st July 1977 in those countries with a flat-rate benefit were as follows:
staffing implications are being considered by the Authority.