§ Mr. Bob Dunnasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will ensure that the Manpower Services Commission includes Dartford within the membership of the DAC for the county of Kent.
§ Mr. Peter Morrison[pursuant to his reply, 3 February 1981]: Last autumn the Government accepted the advice of the Manpower Services Commission to implement the recommendations of the national advisory council on employment of disabled people that the present 220 disablement advisory committees should be replaced by committees for employment of disabled people and by recognised local contacts giving practical help to MSC's disablement resettlement officers.
In its report the council recommended that the local organisation of the MSC's district manpower committees should be taken into consideration in setting up CEDP. MSC has therefore decided that CEDPs—to be set up on 1 April 1981—will cover the areas as DMCs, the boundaries of which are drawn up in relation to local labour markets and MSC's field organisation. Dartford will be in the area of the London (South) CEDP. The employment interests of disabled people in Dartford will be further represented by recognised local contacts in the immediate area.