asked the Secretary of State for Social Services when, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Huntingdonshire of 6 December, he expects his consideration of contraction in unemployment benefit entitlement, arising from prior redundancy fund payments, to be complete; and if he will make a statement.
The issues involved are complex and will take some time to resolve but we shall reach conclusions as soon as practicable; and when we are ready to put any proposals for amending the regulations to the Social Security Advisory Committee an announcement will be made.I regret that in the reply which I gave to my hon. Friend on 6 December—[Vol. 33, c.
387–8] the words "the Bell Fund" were included, by a transcription error, in the second sentence, where a second reference to the Redundancy Fund was intended.