§ Mr. Kilroy-Silkasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if, further to his reply to the hon. Member for Ormskirk on 24 January, Official Report, c. 291, he will indicate the nature of the additional work necessary following from the report "National Voluntary Organisations and Alcohol Misuse".
§ Mr. Geoffrey FinsbergCorrespondence and telephone calls were generated by the publication of the report in April. Comments, many of them extensive and detailed, from over 70 organisations were studied and scheduled as they arrived from May until early August. The Department's policies in relation to prevention, services and training to deal with alcohol misuse had then to be reviewed, in the light of these comments and the report itself, before the proposals announced on 26 October could be formulated.