§ Mr. Meacherasked the Secretary of State for Social Services why he refuses to produce a national welfare benefits guide to assist social workers and welfare rights representatives in ensuring that their clients obtain all the benefits to which they are entitled.
§ Mr. DeanA national guide to welfare benefits entitled "Family Benefits Your Right to Claim Them" has already been published and 340,000 copies have been distributed free of charge since April. A revised edition of the Supplementary Benefits Handbook was also published in April.
We are constantly reviewing the need for booklets of this kind.