§ Mr. Robin CookTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services, pursuant to his reply to the hon. Member for Bradford, West (Mr. Madden),Official Report, 25 February, column 300, if he will list the local office interview rooms of his Department with protective screens.
§ Mr. PortilloIn September 1987, the latest date for which information is available, there were 112 private interview rooms containing protective screens within the supplementary benefit caller facilities at 71 local offices. The offices concerned were:
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Office Rooms1 London North Barnet 1 Basildon 2 Colchester 5 Ilford 1 Ipswich 1 Leytonstone 1 Plaistow 1 Thames north 1 Tottenham 3 Norwich (Chantry) 2 Norwich (Mountergate) 3 Southall 2 Uxbridge 1 Scotland Cowdenbeath 1 Dundee (east) 2 Glasgow (Partick) 4 Glasgow (Springburn) 1 London South Havant 1 Hounslow 1 Bloomsbury 1 Streatham 3 Thames south 1 Westminster 1 Mitcham 2 Portsmouth 1 Redhill 1 North Eastern Blyth 1 Bradford (east) 1 Bradford (south) 2 Harrogate 1 Hartlepool 1 Hexham 1 Leeds (east) 7 Newcastle-on-Tyne (east) 1 Newcastle upon Tyne (St. James) 1 Scarborough 1 Sunderland (south) 1 Wales and South Western Aberdare 1 Barnstaple 1
Office Rooms1 Cardiff (east) 3 Holyhead 1 Llanelli 2 Newtown 1 Swansea 1 Yeovil 1 North Western Blackpool (north) 1 Burnley 1 Carlisle 2 Leigh 1 Liverpool (Bootle) 1 Liverpool (Toxteth) 2 Liverpool (West Derby) 1 Manchester (Cheetham) 4 Manchester (Failsworth) 2 Rochdale 1 St. Helens 1 Salford (north) 4 Midlands Birmingham (Handsworth) 1 Birmingham (Ravenhurst) 1 Derby (Becket Street) 2 Dudley (north) 3 Leicester (Lower Hill Street) 1 Leicester (Norton Street) 1 Northampton 2 Nottingham (Shakespeare Street) 1 Redditch 1 Smethwick 1 Stoke-on-Trent (north) 1 Sutton-in-Ashfield 1 Wellingborough 1 Worksop 1 1 Number of private interview rooms with protective screens.