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Mr. Rankin
asked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will give consideration to separating the employment service from the administration of unemployment benefit and to the establishment of a new and more comprehensive national manpower service.
Mr. Dudley Smith
I would refer the hon. Member to the reply which my right hon. Friend gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Sheffield, Hallam (Mr. J. H. Osborn) on 24th July. Comments on the consultative document are still being received and I have nothing to add at this stage.—[Vol. 804, c. 251.]