HC Deb 12 February 1971 vol 811 c291W
Mr. David Steel

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will enumerate all the departmental committees of inquiry or commissions coming under the responsibility of his Department and indicate the dates on which these were set up.

Sir K. Joseph

The following bodies appear to fall within the scope of the hon. Member's Question. There is, in addition, large number of advisory committees concerned with various aspects of the health and personal social services but these do not appear to come within the scope of the Question and the work required to list them and the subjects with which they are concerned would be disproportionate.Remedial Professions Committee—June, 1969. Committee on One-Parent Families—November. 1969. Committee on Nursing—March, 1970. Advisory Group on the use of Foetuses and Foetal Material for Research—May, 1970. Committee on Complaints against Hospitals—February, 1971. Committee of Inquiry into Whittingham Hospital, Preston—February, 1971.