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Mrs. Renée Short
asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what action she is taking to support the International Year of the Child.
Miss Margaret Jackson
My Department is co-operating with other Departments in a concerted Government response to the International Year of the Child. The Department of Health and Social Security is taking the lead in these arrangements and I refer my hon. Friend to the replies she received from my right hon. Friend the Minister of State, Department of Health and Social Security on 2 August 1978—[Vol. 955, c. 448–9]—and today, and to his reply to a Question from my hon. Friend the Member for Eccles (Mr. Carter-Jones) on 5 December.—[Vol. 959, c. 623–4.]