HC Deb 05 February 1985 vol 72 cc532-48W
Mr. Gordon Brown

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) if he will agree to publish the individual reports of each social security review team;

(2) when he proposes to publish his report of the social security reviews; and whether it will take the form of a White Paper.

Mrs. Renée Short

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services which social security benefits have now been examined by his Department; which benefits are now being examined; which of the reports on benefits are to be published; and when they will be available.

Mr. Newton

We are undertaking a wide-ranging review covering all aspects of social security, and in particular provision for retirement, supplementary benefit, housing benefit and benefits for children and young people. It is hoped that the Government's conclusions and proposals for change will be announced in the course of the next few months. A decision on the form and content of the publication will be taken nearer the time.

Mr. Gordon Brown

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list all the organisations that have submitted evidence to the social security reviews, indicating those which were invited to give oral evidence.

Mr. Newton

A list of the organisations which gave oral evidence to the social security review teams was included in my reply to the hon. Member for Leyton (Mr. Cohen) on 31 October at columns1081 and 1083. The organisations which submitted written evidence were as follows:

Inquiry into provision for retirement:

Sub-group on personal pensions

  • Sir Alfred McAlpine & Son Ltd
  • Chevron Oil Service Company
  • The Palatine Graphic Arts Company Ltd
  • Pensions Associates Limited
  • Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers
  • Geerings
  • The Mail Order Trader's Association
  • Aqua-Marine Manufacturing (UK) Ltd
  • Hymans, Robertson & Co, Consulting Actuaries & Statisticians
  • The Independent Order of Foresters
  • Duncan C. Fraser & Co, Actuaries
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  • Glynwed Group Services Ltd
  • Clearing Bank Union
  • United Kingdom Federation of Business and Professional Women
  • Wimpey
  • Thorn EMI
  • The Committee of Scottish Clearing Bankers
  • LWP Financial Services Limited, Financial & Taxation Consultants
  • Assistant Masters and Mistresses Association
  • Antec Systems Ltd
  • Highlands and Islands Development Board
  • Millar, Boyd & Reid Limited, Whole Warehousemen
  • Association of Public Service Finance Officers
  • Ewing Gay Associates
  • Framlington Unit Management Limited
  • Electrocomponents Pension Trustees Limited
  • Minvercrest Ltd, Group Employee Benefit Consultancy
  • Moore, Stephens & Co, Chartered Accountants
  • Association of Professional, Executive, Clerical and Computer Staff
  • John Lewis Partnership
  • Bass PLC
  • John Govett & Co Ltd
  • Ferranti
  • Pakcentre Ltd, Corrugated Products Ltd
  • Aitken Hume Ltd
  • Farr Insurance Brokers Limited
  • Brammer PLC
  • Institute of Personnel Management
  • Stephen P Rees & Co, Chartered Accountants
  • Trident Life Assurance Company Limited
  • MB Trustees Ltd
  • Trafalgar House PLC
  • The Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors
  • Leonard Fletcher & Partner
  • R Watson & Sons, Consulting Actuaries
  • Parkland Manufacturing Company Limited
  • Whatman, Reeve, Angel PLC
  • Haggar Company Ltd
  • Shepard Associates Life & Pensions Limited
  • National Association of Fire Brigade Pensioners
  • Lower Sapey Pension Management Ltd
  • Parkdale Pensions Management Ltd
  • Frank Hine & Co Ltd
  • Scottish Widows' Fund and Life Assurance Society
  • The Building Societies Association
  • The Standard Life Assurance Company
  • James Robertson & Sons Preserve Manufacturers Ltd
  • Wigham Poland Employee Benefits Ltd
  • William M Mercer-Bowring
  • Halifax Building Society Staff Association
  • The Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies
  • Carnation Limited
  • Banyard, Induction Heating Specialists
  • Access Insurance Consultants Ltd
  • E. A. Clare & Sons Ltd
  • Marks & Spencer
  • Co-operative Union
  • ICI PLC
  • H. J. Heinz Company
  • Merchant Navy Pensions Administration
  • Stewart Wrightson Benefit Services Limited
  • Eaton Ltd
  • Bertlin & Partners (Consulting Engineers)
  • Pension Lawyers Informal Discussion Group
  • Sidwell & McGrath Ltd (Frozen Fish Factors)
  • Reward Regional Surveys Ltd
  • Sigma Ltd
  • Martin James & Co (Financial Consultants)
  • Pfizer Ltd
  • Linked Mortgage & Investment Co Ltd
  • Goodwood Estate (Pensions) Ltd
  • Wander Ltd
  • The Wellcome Foundation Ltd
  • CPC (United Kingdom) Ltd
  • Martin Paterson Associates Ltd
  • The National Chamber of Trade
  • NALGO Salisbury District Branch
  • London Borough of Hounslow Retired Staff Association
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  • NEI (Pension Trustees) Ltd
  • BICC PLC
  • Paramount Printers BEB Ltd
  • The Nestle Company Ltd
  • The British Insurance Brokers Association
  • London Life
  • British Petroleum Co
  • Small Business Bureau
  • Police Negotiating Board
  • Ellison Westhorp
  • NPA Employee Benefits & Compensation Consultants
  • Office of the Bursar, The University of Leeds
  • T. G. Arthur & Co, Consulting Actuaries
  • Peter Provost (Financial Services)
  • Carreras Pension Fund
  • SMK Walker (Specialists in Pension & Benefits Planning)
  • Advisory Council for Applied Research
  • Owen Owen PLC
  • W. H. Smith Pension Trustees Ltd
  • TSB Group Pension Trust Limited
  • Hargreaves Group PLC
  • The Mersey Docks & Harbour Company
  • Aims of Industry
  • Emhart USMC International Ltd
  • Thos & Jas Harrison Ltd
  • Renault UK Ltd
  • Norrington (Insurance Consultants)
  • Policy Studies Institute
  • United Kingdom Steering Committee on Local Government Superannuation
  • Fidelity International
  • Hill Samuel Group Ltd
  • Reckitt & Colman Pension Fund
  • The Pensions Management Institute
  • C E Heath, Urquhart (Life & Pensions) Ltd
  • Henderson Pension Fund Management Ltd
  • Hickson International PLC
  • Yates Burgess Ltd (Insurance Brokers)
  • The National Union of Hosiery & Knitwear Workers
  • Roger Booth & Co Ltd (Insurance Brokers)
  • Macclesfield Insurance Bureau
  • The Business Graduates Association Ltd
  • Adam Smith Research
  • Mars Group of Companies
  • Beecham Group PLC
  • Managerial Professional & Staff Liaison Group
  • The Hundred Group
  • P F Craggs & Co Ltd
  • W S Atkins Group, Consultants
  • Borg-Warner Trustees Limited
  • C J Thacker (Pension Consultant)
  • Retired Management Staff Association
  • Bemrose Corporation PLC
  • Chloride Group PLC
  • The Association of British Chambers of Commerce
  • Rother Boiler Company Ltd
  • May & Hassell PLC
  • Equity & Law Group Pensions
  • Reed Stenhouse Financial Services Ltd
  • Murray Cowles Associates Ltd
  • Covey & Somerset Insurances
  • Higgins & Cattle Ltd
  • Brown Boveri Kent Retirement and Life Assurance Benefits Scheme
  • Wyatt Company (UK) Limited
  • Willis Faber Advisory Services Ltd.
  • Rodney Barnett & Co (Consulting Actuaries)
  • Legal & General Assurance Society Limited
  • BOC Limited
  • Federation of Master Builders
  • Yeneb Pattinson Computers Limited
  • Rowe & Maw (Solicitors)
  • London and Manchester Assurance
  • Ford Motor Co Ltd
  • Ecclesiastical Insurance Office PLC
  • Wider Share Ownership Council
  • Lawrence Prust & Co
  • Crown Life
  • Age Concern
  • Superannuation Arrangements of the University of London
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  • Beaver Machine Tool Sales Ltd
  • Shucksmith & Co, Consulting Actuaries
  • The Solicitors Staff Pension Fund
  • The Institution of Mechanical Engineers
  • UK Provident
  • Rank Xerox Limited
  • Pensions Today
  • Pension Advisers
  • The Committee of London Clearing Bankers
  • Joint Boots Pharmacists Association
  • Providence Capitol
  • Britoil
  • The Nuffield Foundation
  • Trustees of Foster Wheeler Ltd Pensions Plan
  • Burco Dean Plc
  • Johnson and Johnson
  • Boosey and Hawkes
  • Boxfoldia Ltd
  • Age Concern
  • Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors
  • Senior Salesmans Association
  • Perchcourt Limited
  • Decision and Control Systems
  • Engineering Employers Federation
  • Conden International plc
  • Leisure Consultants
  • Port Employers and Registered Dock Workers Pension Fund Trustees Ltd

Inquiry into Provision for Retirement—Main Inquiry

  • Social Security Advisory Committee
  • Equal Opportunities Commission
  • Trades Union Congress
  • Confederation of British Industry
  • National Consumer Council
    • Stock Exchange
  • Age Concern
  • Centre for Policy Studies
  • National Pensioners' Convention
  • British Association of Social Workers
  • Institute and Faculty of Actuaries
  • National Association of Pension Funds
    • Society of Pension Consultants Life Offices Association
  • Legal and General Assurance Society Ltd
    • Association of Consulting Actuaries
  • Women's National Commission
  • Centre for Policy on Ageing
    • Liberal Party
    • Bow Group
  • British Institute of Management
  • The Association of British Chambers of Commerce
  • National Council for Voluntary Organisations
  • Institute of Personnel Management
  • The Educational Institute of Scotland
  • Help the Aged
  • National Association Local Government Officers
  • National Union of Teachers
  • National Association of School Masters/Union of Women Teachers
  • Association of Magisterial Officers
  • National Association of Retired Police Officers
  • Association of Nurse Administrators
  • Royal College of Nursing
    • Fire Brigades Union
    • Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators
  • Confederation of Health Service Employees
  • United Kingdom Association of Professional Engineers
  • Managerial, Professional and Staff Liaison Group
  • Federation of Managerial and Professional Officers Union
  • United Kingdom Steering Committee on Local Government
    • Superannuation
    • Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors
  • Association of Metropolitan Authorities
  • Engineering Employers Federation
  • General Council of British Shipping
  • British Federation of Hotel, Guest House and Self-Catering
    • Associations
  • British Retailers Association
  • National Federation of Small Businesses
    • Association of Independent Businesses
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  • Energy Industries Council
  • The National Council of Trade
  • Transport and General Workers Union Retired Members Association
  • British Venture Capital Association
  • Pensioners Voice
    • Abbeyfield Society
  • Soroptimist International Divisional Union of Scotland
  • Royal College of General Practitioners
  • The National Council of Women of Great Britain
  • Pensioners Link
  • Scottish Convention of Women
  • The Savers Union
  • Pension Lawyers' Informal Discussion Group
  • Philips and Drew
  • Herbert, Oppenheimer, Nathan and Vandyke
  • Lakes and Scottish Financial Services
  • Hay-MSL Management Consultants
  • Callund and Company
  • T G Arthur and Co
  • Shuksmith and Co, Consulting Actuaries
  • C Openshaw and Sons
  • Perchcourt Ltd
  • Electrowaves Ltd
  • Nabarro Nathanson
  • Marriott and Cave
  • Reed Stenhouse
  • Public Service Pensioners Council
  • Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme
  • Health Visitors' Association
  • British Association of Social Work
  • Grimsby and North Lincolnshire Electricity Board
  • Lancaster, University of
  • Social Security Advisory Committee
  • National Council for Voluntary Organisations
  • Lovell White and King
  • Association of Consulting Actuaries
  • Monte Cassino Veterans Association
  • Glenwood Primary School, Belfast
  • Crittall Windows
  • National Council for Carers and their Elderly Dependants Ltd
  • Omagh District Council
  • Building Employers Confederation
  • Workers' Party
  • Federation of Independent Advice Centres
  • Labour Party
  • Basildon Council
  • Harlow Council
  • South Western Storage Ltd
  • National Federation of Self Employed and Small Businesses Ltd
  • Family and Pension Research Project
  • Manganese Bronze Holdings PLC
  • Society of Civil and Public Servants
  • Civil and Public Services Association

Review of benefits for children and young people

  • Advice Services Alliance
  • Aims of Industry
  • Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
  • Association of Charity Officers
  • Association of County Councils
  • Association of Directors of Social Services
  • Association of Directors of Social Work
  • Association of Metropolitan Authorities
  • Association of Polytechnic Teachers
  • Association of Scientific and Technical Management Staff Avon, County of
  • Basildon Council—Personal Services Department
  • Bedfordshire County Council
  • Birmingham, City of—Social Services Department
  • Birmingham, Tribunal Unit
  • Birmingham Welfare Rights Group
  • Blackbird Leys Neighbourhood Centre, Oxford
  • Bolton Metropolitan College
  • Bradford Advice Centres Group
  • Brent, London Borough of
  • Bristol University—Department of Extra-Mural Studies
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  • British University—School of Applied Social Studies
  • British Association of Social Workers
  • British Council
  • British Youth Council
  • Buttle Trust
  • Camden Citizens Advice Bureau
  • Camden, London Borough of
  • Camden Tribunal and Rights Unit
  • Campaign for Single Homeless People (CHAR)
  • Catholic Child Welfare Council
  • Central Bureau for Education Visits and Exchanges
  • Central Regional Council
  • Centre for Policy Studies
  • Charter for the Unemployed
  • Child Poverty Action Group
  • Child Poverty Action Group, Darlington Branch
  • Child Poverty Action Group, Northern Ireland
  • Child Poverty Action Group, Oxford and District Branch
  • Childrens Legal Centre
  • Church Action on Poverty, Clydeside
  • Church Action on Poverty, Salford
  • Civil and Public Services Association
  • Claimants' and Unemployed Workers' Union
  • Cleveland, County of
  • Cleveland Welfare Rights Services
  • Clydeside Poverty Action Group
  • Coleford Quaker Meeting
  • Community Service Volunteers
  • Convention of Scottish Local Authorities
  • Coventry Social Services Department
  • Cowdenbeath and District Volunteer Branch
  • Crossroads Centre
  • Croydon Welcare (Croydon Deanery Association)
  • Darlington Community Health Council
  • Department of Education and Science
  • Deny Women's Aid
  • Deny Women's Centre
  • Disability Alliance
  • Dundee Advice Workers Group
  • Dundee Association for Social Services
  • Dundee Inner City Neighbourhood Action Centre Ltd.
  • Dundee Rights Office
  • Dunfermline Rights Office
  • Durham University
  • Easterhouse Federation of Claimants Union and Benefit Groups
  • Edinburgh University
  • Education for Enterprise Network
  • Equal Opportunities Commission
  • Exeter Citizens Advice Bureau
  • Fabian Society
  • Family Forum
  • Family Policy Studies Unit
  • Family Rights Group
  • Family Service Unit
  • Family Welfare Association
  • Federation of Independent Advice Centres
  • Fife Regional Council
  • Frenchay District Community Health Council
  • Gingerbread
  • Gingerbread Northern Ireland
  • Gloucester Preparative Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
  • Gloucestershire County Council
  • Greenwich, London Borough of
  • Gwent County Council
  • Hackney Centre for the Unemployed
  • Hackney, London Borough of
  • Hampshire Social Services
  • Happy Bus Association
  • Harlow Council
  • Health Visitors' Association
  • Hutchesonstown Tenants Association
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  • Institute of Careers Officers
  • Institute of Directors
  • Institute of Fiscal Studies
  • Ipswich Housing Advice Centre
  • Irish Congress of Trade Unions—NI
  • Islington Social Security Monitoring Group
  • Labour Party
  • Lambeth Churches' Council for Welcare
  • Leeds City Council
  • Leeds Polytechnic
  • Leeds Trades Council
  • Leeds Women's Committee
  • Leicestershire Area of the National Union of Students
  • Leicester Welfare Rights Group
  • Lewisham, London Borough of
  • Liberal Party
  • Link Housing Association
  • Liverpool, City of
  • Liverpool, University of
  • London Advice Services Alliance
  • London Borough of Brent
  • London Borough of Camden
  • London Borough of Greenwich
  • London Borough of Hackney
  • London Borough of Redbridge—Careers Service
  • London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
  • Londonderry Community Advice Centre
  • Lothian Regional Council
  • Low Pay Unit
  • Magee Students Union
  • Malago Area Youth Committee, Avon
  • Manchester, City of
  • Manchester Social Services Department
  • Manpower Services Commission
  • Maternity Alliance
  • Merseyside Welfare Rights Resource Centre
  • Mode B Network
  • National Association of Careers and Guidance Teachers
  • National Association of Citizens' Advice Bureaux
  • National Association of Head Teachers
  • National Association of Local Government Officers—Area Youth Committee
  • National Association of Probation Officers
  • National Association of Teachers—Banbury Branch
  • National Association of Young People's Counselling and Advisory Services
  • National Childrens Bureau
  • National Confederation of Parent-Teacher Associations
  • National Consumer Council
  • National Council for Civil Liberties
  • National Council for One Parent Families
  • National Council for Voluntary Youth Services
  • National Council of Women of Great Britain
  • National Federation of Sub-Postmasters
  • National Foster Care Association
  • National Institute for Economic and Social Research
  • National Schizophrenia Fellowship
  • National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children National Union of Public Employees
  • National Union of Students
  • National Union of Students, Leicestershire Area
  • National Union of Teachers
  • National Youth Bureau
  • Newcastle Advice and Information Working Group
  • Newcastle Welfare Rights Service
  • Newport Resource Centre
  • Newport Voluntary Groups
  • Northamptonshire Advice Groups
  • Northern Ireland Poverty Lobby
  • North Oxfordshire Technical College and School of Art
  • Oxford Unemployed Group
  • Paddington Churches Housing Association Ltd
  • Perth Council for the Disabled
  • Policy Studies Institute
  • Pre-School Playgroups Association
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  • Quakers (Stroud)
  • Queen Elizabeth Square Tenants Association
  • Queen's University Belfast Students Union
  • RADAR (Royal Association of Disability and Rehabilitation)
  • Reading Centre for the Unemployed
  • Redbridge Personal Services Directorate
  • Research on Ethnic Relations
  • Rights of Women
  • St Katherine's Centre—Welfare Rights Office
  • Salford, City of—Administration Department
  • Save the Children Fund
  • Scottish Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux
  • Scottish Child and Family Alliance
  • Scottish Community Education Council
  • Scottish Council on Disability
  • Scottish Council for Single Homeless
  • Scottish Council for Single Parents
  • Scottish Council of Social Service
  • Scottish Federation of Housing Associations
  • Scottish Spina Bifida Association
  • Scottish Women's Aid
  • Secondary Heads Association
  • Shawfield Area Stimulation and General Advice
  • Sheffield Advice Centres Group
  • Shelter, Edinburgh
  • Shrewsbury and Central Shropshire Citizens Advice Bureaux
  • Social Affairs Unit
  • Society of Civil and Public Servants
  • Southall Community Law Centre
  • Spastics Society
  • St Katherine's Centre
  • Stepfamily
  • Stirling District Council
  • Stroud Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends
  • Strathclyde Regional Council
  • Suffolk County Council
  • Sunderland Industrial Mission
  • Teesside and District Chamber of Commerce and Industry
  • Three Tuns Neighbourhood Project
  • Trades Union Congress
  • Twins Clubs Association
  • UB40 Resources Centre for Unemployed Youth
  • Volunteer Centre
  • Voluntary Council for Handicapped Children
  • Wales Council for the Disabled
  • Wandsworth Rights Umbrella Group
  • Washington Child Benefit Centre
  • Waterside Rights Service
  • Welfare Rights Service
  • West End Community Project and Fosse Rights Centre
  • West London Social Security Forum
  • West Lothian Rights Association
  • West Midlands County Council
  • Wolverhampton, Metropolitan Borough of—Social Services Department
  • Worcester College for the Blind
  • Workers' Party (NI Regional Executive)
  • World Development Group
  • YMCA Special Programmes
  • Youth Action Charter
  • Youthaid

Supplementary Benefit Review

  • Christian Socialist Movement
  • Hampshire County Council
  • Hackney Forum
  • The Trades House of Glasgow
  • London Borough of Brent
  • University of Strathclyde—Department of Agriculture and Building Science
  • Dorset Association of Registered Rest Homes
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  • Tenants Association, Southwark
  • The Parish of St. Berteline and St. Christopher, Norton
  • The Leonard Cheshire Foundation
  • Reigate Conservative Association
  • Advice and Information Working Group
  • London Borough of Hackney
  • Hackney Centre for the Unemployed
  • The Multiple Sclerosis Society
  • Thurso Community Council
  • Hammersmith Unemployed Workers' Centre
  • CHAR Campaign for Single Homeless People
  • The Magistrates' Association
  • Dundee and District Retirement Council
  • University of Bristol—Department of Extra-Mural Studies
  • London School of Economics — International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines
  • Cowdenbeath and District Volunteer Bureau
  • The Volunteer Centre
  • Turning Point
  • The Building Societies Association
  • Wales Council for the Disabled
  • Northern Ireland Consumer Council
  • Waterside Churches' Committee for Community Needs—Northern Ireland
  • Scottish Community Education Council
  • Coleford Quarter Meeting
  • Gloucester Preparative Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
  • Gloucestershire County Council
  • Bournemouth Association for the Care of the Elderly
  • Welfare Rights Service—City of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Clydeside Poverty Action Group
  • The Children's Family Trust
  • Stroud Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends (Quakers)
  • Equal Opportunities Commission for Northern Ireland
  • Quaker Social Responsibility and Education
  • Unemployment Alliance
  • Association of Metropolitan Authorities
  • The Family Welfare Association
  • Network for the Handicapped
  • National Association for Mental Health
  • National Association of Youth and Community Education Officers
  • Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association
  • MENCAP — Royal Society for Mentally Handicapped Children and Adults
  • Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation
  • Equal Opportunities Commission
  • National Council for Civil Liberties
  • Pre-School Playgroups Association
  • The British Council
  • British Unemployment
  • Family Forum
  • National Foster Care Association
  • The Abbeyfield Society
  • The Civil Service Benevolent Fund
  • Church Action on Poverty
  • Gingerbread—For Lone Parents and Children
  • Family Rights Group
  • Birmingham Welfare Rights Group
  • Central Regional Council
  • Child Poverty Action Group
  • Northampton Advice Group
  • National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux
  • Citizens Advice Bureau, Stoke-on-Trent
  • Family Service Units
  • University of Birmingham — Social Administration Department
  • The National Federation of Post Office and British Telecom Pensioners
  • Child Poverty Action Group—Leicester Branch
  • Leeds Trades Council
  • Omagh and District Advice Centre
  • Central London Social Security Advisers Forum
  • City of Manchester—Social Services Department
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  • Glasgow Council for Voluntary Service
  • Strathclyde Regional Council
  • Three Tuns Neighbourhood Project
  • Thurso and Wick Trades Council
  • South Western Storage Ltd.
  • Darnall Welfare Rights Service
  • Brunel University—Department of Government
  • County of Cleveland Welfare Rights Service
  • London Borough of Camden
  • Aireborough TUC Unemployment Advice Centre
  • Otley TUC Unemployment Advice Centre
  • City of Birmingham—Social Services Department
  • University of Surrey—Department of Sociology
  • Citizens Advice Bureau, Belfast
  • National Union of Public Employees
  • Islington Social Security Monitoring Group
  • Hampshire County Council
  • Centre for Neighbourhood Development, Belfast
  • Greater London Council
  • Thameside Welfare Rights Unit
  • Charter of the Unemployed
  • The Workers' Party—Northern Regional Executive
  • The Labour Party
  • Belfast Voluntary Welfare Society
  • Sheffield Advice Centres Group, Grookesmoor Community Centre
  • Coventry Social Services Department, Wyken District Team
  • Walcot Community Association
  • Scottish Fuel Poverty Action Group
  • Scottish Council for Single Parents
  • Scottish Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux
  • Resettlement of Offenders Co-ordinary Committee
  • St. Katherine's Centre—Welfare Rights Office
  • East Lothian Council for Voluntary Service
  • Scottish Spina Bifida Association
  • Youth Action Charter
  • West Lothian Rights Association
  • Dundee Inner City Neighbourhood Action Centre Ltd
  • Dundee Advice Workers Group
  • Dundee Association for Social Services
  • Magee Student's Union Committee
  • The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
  • London Borough of Hackney
  • Wandsworth Rights Umbrella Group
  • University of Durham
  • Windermere Advice Centre
  • Council of Tribunals
  • Haringey Disablement Association
  • The Sue Ryder Foundation
  • Rights of Women
  • London Borough of Greenwich — Community Affairs Section, Chief Executive's Department
  • Borough of Crewe and Nantwich
  • Stockwell and Clapham Law Centre
  • The Bethlem Royal Hospital
  • Bradford Resource Centre
  • Reading Centre for the Unemployed
  • Southwark Social Services
  • Easterhouse Federations of Claimant's Unions and Benefits Groups
  • Exeter Citizens Advice Bureau
  • Newport Resource Centre
  • Leeds Polytechnic
  • The Lane Neighbourhood Centre, Birmingham
  • Research Unit on Ethnic Relations
  • Age Concern, Brighton
  • Thamesdown Welfare Rights Forum
  • Devon Probation and After-Care Service
  • Brighton Rights Advice Centre
  • Harlow Council
  • Leicester Welfare Rights Group
  • London Advice Services Alliance
  • University of Liverpool — Department of Economic and Business Studies
  • North and South Areas Oxford City Social Services Department
  • The Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables, Putney
  • Cathedral Church of Saint Mary the Virgin
  • Cardiff Community Health Council
  • Redbridge—Personal Services Directorate
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  • Social Service Department, Brompton Hospital
  • West Midlands Low Pay Unit
  • National Association of Probation Officers
  • The Family Welfare Association
  • Association of County Councils
  • Falls Community Council—Resource Centre
  • Adamsdown Community Law Centre
  • Prestwich Hospital—Salford Health Authority
  • The Park Home Residents Guild
  • Disablement Income Group
  • British Institute of Industrial Therapy
  • Electricity and National Gas Consumer Council
  • Royal National Institute for the Blind
  • The Spastics Society
  • Pensioners Link
  • Convention of Scottish Local Authorities
  • Croydon Welfare (Croydon Deanery Association)
  • Southall Community Law Centre
  • Camden Citizens Advice Bureaux Service
  • Crossroads Centre
  • Temporary Employment Scheme
  • Croydon Retirement Association
  • Association of Directors of Social Work
  • Family Service Units
  • Walnut Street Area Claimants Right Group
  • Trades Union Congress
  • Association of Charity Officers Policy Studies Institute
  • National Consumer Council
  • House of Commons Social Services Committee
  • Claimant and Consumer Organisation
  • Teeside and District Chamber of Commerce and Industry
  • Gloucestershire County Council
  • Action in Retirement Centre
  • National Schizophrenia Fellowship
  • Federation of Independent Advice Centres
  • Basildon Council—Personal Services Division
  • Shawfield Area Stimulation and General Advice
  • Merseyside Welfare Rights Resource Centre
  • The Staff Team, Homeless Young People's Project
  • The West End Community Project and Fosse Rights Centre
  • Community Relations Outreach Project
  • The National Council of Women of Great Britain
  • Child Poverty Action Group
  • Association of Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus
  • The Law Society
  • Derry Women's Centre
  • Save The Children
  • National Children's Bureau
  • Paddington Churches Housing Association Limited
  • UB40 Centre for the Unemployment, Exeter
  • Metropolitan Borough of Wolverhampton, Social Services Department
  • Malago Area Youth Committee (County of Avon)
  • Deny Women's Aid
  • World Development Group
  • Oxford East Constituency Labour Party
  • Royal College of Nursing—Central Southern Area Office
  • Society of Civil and Public Servants
  • The Royal College of Psychiatrists
  • National council for One Parent Families
  • Board for Social Responsibility, Church of England
  • Gwent County Council
  • Morley Tamblyn Lodge—Parents Group
  • Sheffield Advice Centres Group
  • Lothian Regional Council
  • Stirling District Council
  • The Fife Regional Council—Social Work Department
  • Coventry Voluntary Service Council
  • The Civil and Public Services Association
  • St. Colin's—Church of Scotland Department of Education
  • Perth Council for the Disabled
  • Blackbird Leys
  • Right to Fuel
  • Ecology Party
  • Social Security Appeal Tribunals, the Office of the President
  • Shelter—National Campaign for the Homeless
  • Northern Ireland Women's Aid Federation
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  • The President of Social Security Appeal Tribunals — Northern Ireland
  • Church of Ireland Social and Family Welfare Association
  • Scottish Child and Family Alliance
  • The Institute for Fiscal Studies
  • Leeds Diocesan Justice and Peace Commission
  • Bedfordshire County Council
  • Royal County of Berkshire—Department of Social Services
  • London Borough of Islington — Administrative Services Department
  • University of Sussex—Science Policy Research Unit
  • Dunfermline Single Homeless Service
  • Rights Office Dunfermline
  • London Borough of Lewisham
  • The Ark Housing Association Ltd
  • Irish Congress of Trade Unions — Northern Ireland Committee
  • Claimants and Unemployed workers' Union
  • Birmingham Tribunal Unit
  • The Happy Bus Association
  • Research Institute for Consumer Affairs
  • Rushcliffe Borough Council
  • City of Salford
  • MIND, Woking
  • Leeds City Council—Leeds Women's Committee
  • West Midlands County Council
  • Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
  • Counsel and Care for the Elderly
  • Glasgow Chamber of Commerce
  • Hutchestown Community Council
  • Association of District Councils
  • West Country Housing Association Ltd
  • Low Pay Unit
  • Federation of Bangladesh Associations
  • The Post Office

Housing Benefit Review

  • The Abbeyfield Society
  • Advice Services Alliance
  • Age Concern (England)
  • Age Concern (Scotland)
  • Advice and Information Working Group, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
  • All Party Parliamentary Group for Pensioners
  • Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
  • Anchor Housing Association, Oxford
  • Anglesey Borough Council (Chief Executive)
  • Ark Housing Association Ltd, Edinburgh
  • Ashfield District Council (Chief Executive)
  • Association of Charity Officers
  • Association of Chief Housing Officers
  • Association of County Councils
  • Association of Directors of Social Services
  • Association of Directors of Social Work
  • Association of District Councils
  • Association of Housing Aid
  • Association of London Authorities
  • Association of Metropolitan Authorities
  • Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs, Bradford
  • Association of University Accommodation Officers
  • Audit Commission
  • Banff and Buchan District Council (Housing and Property Department)
  • Barnet, London Borough of (Borough Treasurer)
  • Basildon Council (Personal Services Division)
  • Bassetlaw District Council (Finance Department)
  • Bath University Students Union
  • Belfast Housing Aid Society
  • Belfast Improved Houses Ltd
  • Berkshire Probation Service
  • Beverley Borough Council (Chief Finance Officer)
  • Birmingham Citizens' Advice Bureaux
  • Birmingham, City of (Housing Officer)
  • Birmingham, City of (Social Services Department)
  • Birmingham University Guild of Students
  • Blackbird Leys Neighbourhood Centre
  • Blackburn, Borough of (Housing Officer)
  • Blackfriars Advice Centre
  • BMSL Housing Benefits User Group
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  • Bolsover District Council (Chief Executive)
  • Bournemouth, Borough of (Chief Executive)
  • Bradford Resource Centre
  • Breckland District Council (Treasurer)
  • Brent Community Law Centre
  • Brent Federation of Tenants and Residents Associations
  • Bridgeton and Dalmarnock Housing Association Ltd
  • Brighton Rights Advice Centre
  • British Association of Social Workers
  • British Pensioners and Trades Union Action Association—Welwyn Garden City Branch
  • Broxbourne, Borough of (Finance Department)
  • Brunel University Law Department
  • Camden, London Borough of (Chief Executive)
  • Caradon District Council (Finance Department)
  • Catholic Housing Aid Society
  • Cecil Houses
  • Central London Society Security Advisers Forum
  • Central Regional Council (Social Work Department)
  • Charter for the Unemployed
  • Centre of Urban and Regional Studies — University of Birmingham
  • Ceredigion District Council (Finance Department)
  • Charter Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy
  • Cheltenham Labour Party
  • Chester City Council (Chief Executive)
  • Child Poverty Action Group
  • Church Action on Poverty
  • Church Commissioners
  • Church of Scotland, Committee on Church and Nation
  • Citizens' Rights Office, Edinburgh
  • Civil and Public Services Association
  • Civil Service Benevolent Fund
  • Claimants' and Unemployed Workers' Union
  • Cleveland County Council Welfare Rights Service
  • Clydeside Church Action on Poverty
  • Clydeside Poverty Action Group
  • Coleford Quarters
  • Commission for Local Administration in England
  • Convention of Scottish Local Authorities
  • Coopers and Lybrand Associates
  • Copec Housing Trust
  • Council on Tribunals
  • Cowdenbeath and District Volunteer Bureau
  • Crossroads Centre, Ilford
  • Croydon Welcare (Croydon Deanery Association)
  • Dacorum District Council (Finance Department)
  • Darlington Community Health Council
  • Derry Women's Aid
  • Deny Women's Centre
  • Disability Alliance
  • Duncan McCulloch & Co, Solicitors, Dingwall
  • Dunfermline Single Homeless Service
  • Dundee Advice Workers Group
  • Dundee Association for Social Service
  • Dundee Inner City Neighbourhood Action Centre Ltd
  • Easterhouse Federation of Claimants' Forum
  • Exeter Citizens' Advice Bureau
  • Fairhazel Cooperative Ltd.
  • Family Forum
  • Family Service Units
  • Family Welfare Association
  • Federation of Independent Advice Centres
  • First Hand (Southwell and District Housing Association Ltd.)
  • Forest Heath District Council (Chief Executive)
  • Gingerbread
  • Glasgow council for Voluntary Service
  • Glasgow District Council
  • Gloucester Quakers
  • Gloucestershire County Council (Social Services Department)
  • Great Grimsby Borough Council (Chief Executive)
  • Greater London Citizen's Bureaux Service
  • Greater London Council (Director-General's Department)
  • GLC Forum for the Elderly
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  • Greenwich, London Borough of (Borough Treasurer)
  • Gwent County Council (Chief Executive)
  • Hackney, London Borough of (Comprehensive Consumer Affairs Service)
  • Hackney, London Borough of (Directorate of Finance)
  • Hampshire County Council (Social Services Department)
  • Hanover Housing Association
  • Happy Bus Association, Rosyth
  • Harlow Council (Community Services Department)
  • Hastings Borough Council (Borough Treasurer)
  • Health Visitors' Association
  • Hertfordshire War Pensions Committee
  • High Peak, Borough of (Chief Executive)
  • Holloway Tenant Co-operative
  • Horton Outreach Project, Bradford
  • Housing Centre Trust
  • Hove, Borough of (Borough Treasurer's Department)
  • Hyde Housing, London
  • Hutchesontown Tenants' Association, Glasgow
  • Institute of Fiscal Studies
  • Institute of Housing
  • Institute of Rent Officers
  • Irish Congress of Trade Unions
  • Islington, London Borough of (Chief Executive)
  • Islington Social Security Monitoring Group
  • International Computers Ltd. (ICL)
  • James Butcher Housing Association (Northern Ireland) Ltd.
  • Kensington and Chelsea, London Borough of (Chief Executive)
  • Kensington Housing Trust
  • Kerrier District Council (Chief Executive)
  • Kingston Upon Hull, City of (Chief Executive)
  • Knowsley, Metropolitan Borough of (Borough Treasurer)
  • Lambeth Social Security Working Group
  • Langbaurgh, Borough of (Town Clerk)
  • Leeds Residential Property Association
  • Leeds City Council (Department of Finance)
  • Leeds City Council Women's Committee
  • Leeds Trades Council
  • Legal Action Group
  • Leicester Welfare Rights Group
  • Leonard Cheshire Foundation
  • Liberal Party
  • Link Housing Association Ltd, Edinburgh
  • LAMSAC
  • London Advice Services Alliance
  • London Boroughs Association
  • London Conservative Students
  • London Local Authorities Computer Managers Group
  • Lothian Regional Council (Regional Secretary)
  • Low Pay Unit
  • Magee Students Union Committee (New University of Ulster)
  • Malago Area Youth Committee, Bristol
  • Malvern Hills District Council (Secretary)
  • Manchester, City of (Chief Executive)
  • Manchester, City of (Social Services Department)
  • Manchester Housing Benefits Campaign
  • Maudsley Hospital Welfare Rights Office
  • Merseyside Improved Houses
  • Metropolitan Housing Trusts, Nottingham
  • Mid-Devon District Council (Treasurer)
  • MIND, Woking Branch
  • Montgomery District Council (Chief Executive)
  • National Association of Almshouses
  • National and Local Government Officers' Association (NALGO)
  • NALGO, Barnet Branch
  • National Association of Citizens' Advice Bureaux
  • National Association of Probation Officers
  • National Consumer Council
  • National Council for Civil Liberties
  • National Council for One Parent Families
  • National Council of Women of Great Britain
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  • National Council of Voluntary Organisations
  • National Federation of Housing Associations
  • National Federation of Old Age Pensions Associations
  • National Federation of Post Office and British Telecom Pensioners
  • National Foster Care Association
  • National Housing and Town Planning Council
  • National Schizophrenia Fellowship
  • National Tenants' Organisation
  • National Union of Public Employees
  • National Union of Students
  • National Welfare Rights Officers Group
  • New Forest District Council (Chief Executive)
  • New Towns Association
  • Newcastle Welfare Rights Service
  • Newham, London Borough of (Housing Department)
  • Newport Resource Centre
  • North Bedfordshire Borough Council (Finance Department)
  • North Dorset District Council (Chief Executive)
  • Nort Housing Association
  • Northern Ireland Association of Citizens' Advice Bureaux
  • Northern Ireland Child Poverty Action Group
  • Northern Ireland Housing Executive
  • Northern Ireland Housing Executive, Trade Union Side
  • Northamptonshire Advice Groups
  • Notting Hill Housing Trust
  • Nottingham, City of (City Secretary's Department)
  • Nottingham Council for Voluntary Service/Radio Trent Careline
  • Old Common Council Tenants' Association (Cobham)
  • Orton Advice Service, Peterborough
  • Oxford City Council (City Secretary)
  • Paddington Churches Housing Association Ltd
  • Park Home Residents Guild
  • Pensioners' Link
  • Pensioners' Voice
  • Perth Council for the Disabled
  • Peterborough Child Poverty Action Group
  • Plymouth, City of (Chief Executive)
  • Policy Studies Institute
  • Poole, Borough of (Borough Treasurer)
  • Portsmouth, City of (Directorate of Housing and Health)
  • The Post Office
  • Queen Elizabeth Square Tenants Association, Glasgow
  • Queen's University Belfast: Students Union
  • Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation (RADAR)
  • The Rating and Valuation Association
  • Reading Centre for the Unemployed
  • Reading Borough Council (Housing Department)
  • Reading District Labour Party
  • Redbridge, London Borough of (Personal Services Department)
  • Reigate Conservative Association
  • Rent Assessment Panel for Wales
  • Restormel, Borough of (Treasurer)
  • Rights Against Homelessness
  • Rights Office, Dunfermline
  • Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors
  • Runnymede Borough Council (Borough Treasurer)
  • Ryedale District Council (Treasurer)
  • Salford City Council (City Administrator)
  • School for Advanced Urban Studies, Bristol University
  • Scottish Association of Citizens' Advice Bureaux
  • Scottish Council on Disability
  • Scottish Council for Single Homeless
  • Scottish Council for Single Parents
  • Scottish Council of Social Service
  • Scottish Federation of Housing Associations
  • Scottish Fuel Poverty Action Group
  • Scottish Special Housing Association
  • SELCHA (South East London Consortium Housing Association)
  • SHAC (London Housing Aid Centre)
  • Shawfield Area Stimulation and General Advice, Glasgow
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  • Sheffield Advice Centres Group
  • Sheffield University Students' Union
  • SHELTER
  • SHELTER (Scotland)
  • SHELTER (Northern Ireland)
  • Shepway District Council (Finance Department)
  • Single Homeless Group
  • Social Security Advisory Committee
  • Society of Civil and Public Servants
  • Society of Local Authority Chief Executives
  • South Cambridgeshire District Council (Treasurer)
  • South Norfolk District Council (Housing Department)
  • South Shropshire District Council (Treasurer)
  • Southend Single Homeless Committee
  • Southall Community Law Centre
  • South Wales Housing Officers Group
  • Spina Bifida Association
  • St. Albans City and District Council (Chief Executive)
  • St. Katherine's Centre, Aberdeen
  • St. Pancras Housing Association
  • Stirling District Council (Chief Executive)
  • Stirling University (Department of Housing Administration)
  • Stoke-on-Trent, City of (City Treasurer)
  • Strathclyde Chief Officers Group
  • Strathclyde Regional Council (Chief Executive)
  • Strathclyde Regional Council (Social Work Department)
  • Stroud Preparative Meeting of the Society of Friends (Quakers)
  • Students Housing Association Co-op, Northern Ireland
  • Suffolk County Council (Education Department)
  • Sutton Housing Trust
  • Sutton, London Borough of (Borough Solicitor)
  • Tameside Metropolitan Borough (Finance Department)
  • Tameside Welfare Rights Unit
  • Thamesdown Welfare Rights Forum
  • Thanet District Council (Finance Department)
  • Three Rivers District Council (Housing Department)
  • Three Tuns Neighbourhood Project
  • Tonbridge and Mailing Borough Council (Finance Department)
  • Trades Union Congress
  • Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council (Chief Executive)
  • Wandsworth Rights Umbrella Group
  • Warrington Borough Council (Borough Secretary)
  • Waterside Churches' Community Advice Centre (Londonderry)
  • Watford, Borough of (Housing Department)
  • Waverley Borough Council (Chief Executive)
  • Welsh Consumer Council
  • Welsh Water
  • West Derbyshire District Council (Treasurer)
  • West Lindsey District Council (Finance Department)
  • West London Social Security Forum
  • West Lothian Rights Association
  • West Midlands County Council (Deputy Leader)
  • West Midlands County Probation and After-Care Service
  • Westcliff Baptist Church
  • Western Health and Social Services Board, Northern Ireland
  • Westminster, City of (Housing Department)
  • Willesden Free Church Housing Association
  • Windermere Advice Centre, Leicester
  • Wirral, Metropolitan Borough of (Finance Department)
  • Woking Borough Council (Chief Executive)
  • Wokingham District Council (District Secretary)
  • Wolverhampton, Metropolitan Borough of (Social Services Department)
  • Woodspring, District of (Chief Executive)
  • World Development Group, Derry
  • Workers Party (Northern Ireland)
  • Worthing Borough Council (Chief Executive)
  • Wyre, Borough of (Borough Treasurer)
  • Youth Action Charter, Edinburgh

Mr. Gordon Brown

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list all those organisations which asked to give oral evidence to the social security reviews but were not called to do so.

Mr. Newton

The following organisations asked to give oral evidence but were not called to do soSupplementary Benefit Review: Oxford Unemployed Workers and Claimants' Union Children and Young Persons Review: National Confederation of Parent-Teachers' Associations Inquiry into Provision for Retirement: Pensioners' Link Housing Benefit Review: None