§ Mr. Rooker asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what action his Department is taking to ensure that persons entitled to earnings-related supplements to national insurance benefits which were not paid during the period of industrial action will now receive the benefits due to them.
§ Mr. Rossi: I refer the hon. Member to the reply given to my hon. Friend the Member for Worcestershire, South (Mr. Spicer) by my right hon. Friend the then Secretary of State on 31 July.—[Vol. 9, c. 687.] An advertisement explaining the position and what should be done has appeared in national daily newspapers this week, commencing 19 October.