HC Deb 27 July 1967 vol 751 cc197-8W
Mr. Judd

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he will now publish in the OFFICIAL REPORT the names of all those organisations with which he has had formal consultation about the future of voluntary service by young people in Great Britain; and whether he has yet made arrangements for a formal round table conference with all such organisations together with all the relevant statutory and non-statutory welfare organisations with which they are or could be co-operating.

Mr. Crosland

My hon. Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State and officials of the Department have had discussions with the following: Youth Service Development Council, Association of Education Committees, County Councils Association, Association of Municipal Corporations, Inner London Education Authority, Welsh Joint Education Committee, Standing Conference of National Voluntary Youth Organisations, Community Service Volunteers, International Voluntary Service, Task Force, Toc H, Young Volunteers of Merseyside, Concordia, United Nations Association, Association for Jewish Youth, and have also received memoranda from Birmingham Young Volunteers, Solihull Young Volunteers, Blackfriars Settlement, Association of Child Care Officers, Youth Action Sheffield, Service 9 Bristol and Red Cross (the last seven in the form of memoranda); I am not proposing to hold a general conference.