HC Deb 09 June 1969 vol 784 cc208-9W
Mrs. Joyce Butler

asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity who are the members of the National Advisory Council on the Employment of the Disabled; how often the Council meets; and when it last reviewed employment service for the disabled.

Mr. Fernyhough

The members of the National Advisory Council on the Employment of the Disabled are representatives of employers and workpeople (in equal numbers) and other persons interested in the problems of disablement. The council meets four times a year, and its four constituent committees each meet on average twice a year. At each council meeting some aspect of the employment services for the disabled is reviewed and current problems examined. The most recent meeting of the council was on 12th March, 1969. The present membership is listed below.

  • Lieutenant-Commander G. W. Style, C.B.E.. D.S.C., R.N., Chairman.
  • Mr. R. F. Barrack.
  • Mr. S. C. Calder.
  • Professor J. J. R. Duthie, M.B., F.R.C.P.(E.).
  • Mr. P. N. G. Edge, O.B.E., D.S.C.
  • Mr. A. Fisher.
  • Mr. L. Forden, J.P.
  • Miss M. Greaves.
  • The Hon. J. Holland-Hibbert, C.B.E., J.P.
  • Mr. J. Jack, C.B.E., J.P.
  • Mr. M. Lambert.
  • Mr. L. D. Levy.
  • Mr. G. H. Lowthian, C.B.E.
  • Mr. A. Martin.
  • Dr. A. B. Monro, M.D., Ph.D., M.R.C.P.(E.), D.P.M.
  • Alderman Mrs. A. Norman.
  • Brigadier J. A. Oliver, C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., T.D., A.D.C., D.L.
  • Mr. L. W. Plewes, C.B.E., M.A., M.D., F.R.C.S.(E.).
  • Sir Kenneth Robson, C.B.E., M.D., F.R.C.P.
  • Mr. W. Simpson, O.B.E., D.F.C.
  • Mr. E. B. T. Tanner.
  • Dr. A. Thelwall Jones, M.D., F.R.C.P., D.P.H.
  • Dame Katherine Watson-Watt, D.B.E.
  • Mrs. D. M. Wedgwood, O.B.E.
  • Mr. R. W. Westcombe, M.B.E., J.P.

Mrs. Joyce Butler

asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity how many cases of dismissal of registered disabled persons have been investigated by a specially authorised officer of the local employment exchange during the last five years; and how many of these cases were referred by the Secretary of State to a disablement advisory committee.

Mr. Fernyhough

I regret that the information asked for in the first part of the Question is not available. In the last five years two cases are known to have been referred to a Disablement Advisory Committee.