HC Deb 22 February 1977 vol 926 cc511-2W
Q33. Mr. Wigley

asked the Prime Minister with which matters in the Queen's Speech of last November his Government do not intend to proceed.

The Prime Minister

All the proposals in the Gracious Speech have been or will be proceeded with, apart from the proposal to recoup the cost to the National Health Service of treating road traffic casualties, which has been withdrawn for the reasons explained by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Social Services in his reply of 14th February to my hon. Friend the Member for St. Helens (Mr. Spriggs). The Social Security (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill contained a provision to give effect to the proposal in the Speech to restrict the payment of unemployment benefit to certain occupational pensioners; this provision was deleted in Standing Committee.

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