§ Mr. FatchettTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security whether his Department has any plans to issue new guidelines to social security officials on how to apply the 21-hour rule for unemployed adults wishing to study; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mrs. Gillian ShephardThe Department is shortly to issue to officials clarification of its existing procedures. The418W instruction will be designed to ensure that the Department's policy is operated as efficiently as possible and no new guidelines on its policy concerning the application of the 21-hour rule or changes of that policy are involved.