§ Lord James Douglas-Hamiltonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether the experimental microcomputer welfare benefit information system is currently on trial in Edinburgh and in Scotland; and whether he will make the results of an independent evaluation of the system public in the spring.
§ Mr. NewtonThe welfare benefits information system—WBIS—is on trial at the Department's Clydebank integrated local office, as well as at other sites in England.
I intend in due course to place a copy of the independent evaluation report on WBIS in the Library of the House.