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Written Answers

Volume 440: debated on Monday 7 March 1983

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Written Answers

School-Leavers: Supplementary Benefit

a) Easter school-leavers, ( b) summer school-leavers are entitled to claim supplementary benefit.

Unemployed school-leavers normally become entitled to supplementary benefit from fixed dates at the end of the holidays following their final term at school. For Easter school-leavers this is the first Monday following Easter Monday and for summer school-leavers the first Monday in September.

Motor Cars: Origin Marking

asked Her Majesty's Government:How the public can be expected to buy British-made motor cars when it is difficult to discover where cars sold under apparently British brand-names are in fact manufactured; and whether there is legislation requiring imported goods to be clearly marked with the country of origin.

The Trade Descriptions Act 1972 requires all imports, including imported cars, to bear a conspicuous indication of their country of origin if they are supplied here under a United Kingdom name or mark, or under a marking likely to be taken for a United Kingdom name or mark. The origin marking requirements of the Trade Descriptions (Origin Marking) (Miscellaneous Goods) Order 1981 apply to imported and domestically produced goods in five sectors—textiles, clothing, footwear, cutlery and domestic electrical appliances. The operation of these requirements is currently under review.

"Grant Related Expenditure 1983–84"

asked Her Majesty's Government:What plans they have to make available the Department of the Environment's publication

Grant Related Expendituree 1983–84.

I have today placed copies of this document in the Library of the House. Copies have also been sent to every local authority in England and to the local authority associations.