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  ALAN TURNER v. SECRETARY OF STATE FOR SOCIAL SECURITY, 21 December 2001, Lord Cameron of Lochbroom+Lord ...
The decision of the Tribunal was to award certain benefits, namely attendance allowance at a lower rate and a benefit described as the care component of DLA but to adjourn the appeal in respect of any claim to mobility allowance and the mobility component of DLA.
DAT1 said, however, that there was consistency between the reports of the collapses given to the various doctors and the evidence given by the three witnesses who appeared before the Tribunal as to the nature, frequency and consequences of the petitioner's attacks.
Secretary of State for Social Services, ex parte Connolly [1986] 1 W.L.R. 421 with regard to the proper approach to be taken by the court in assessing a decision given by a Commissioner without reasons.
www.scotcourts.gov.uk /opinions/XA30_07.html   (2087 words)

  
  Secretary of State for Work and Pensions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions is a position in the UK cabinet, responsible for the Department for Work and Pensions.
In 1966 the Ministry was renamed the Ministry of Social Security, but this proved to be shortlived as the Ministry merged with the Ministry of Health in 1968 to form the Department of Health and Social Security.
Confusingly the Secretary of State responsible for this Department was always referred to as Secretary of State for Social Services.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Health_and_Social_Security   (688 words)

  
 Secretary of State for Health - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Secretary of State for Health is a UK cabinet position responsible for the Department of Health.
Local government functions were eventually transferred to the Minster of Housing and Local Government, leaving the Health Ministry in charge of Health proper.
From 1968 it was amalgamated with the Ministry of Social Security under the Secretary of State for Social Services, until a demerger of the Department of Health and Social Security on July 25, 1988.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Health   (659 words)

  
 The Texas State Senate - Secretary of the Senate
The Secretary of the Senate is elected by the Senate as its chief executive administrator.
Beyond her administrative duties in the office and her legislative duties on the floor, the Secretary must satisfy the demands of her electorate, the 31 members of the Senate.
She must answer queries from citizens and groups from throughout the state and the nation, and participate in ceremonial and social occasions as a representative of the Senate.
www.senate.state.tx.us /75r/Senate/SoS.htm   (169 words)

  
 Secretary of State :: Elections Division
The Secretary of State is one of five constitutional officers originally designated in Indiana's State Constitution of 1816.
The Secretary of State's office oversees Indiana's securities industry as well as the activities of mortgage brokers, collection agencies, franchisors and continuing care retirement centers.
At the age of 36, Secretary Rokita is the second youngest Secretary of State in the country.
www.state.in.us /sos/elections/voters/1styear.html   (1804 words)

  
 28 Oct 1981: Written answers (TheyWorkForYou.com)
Greville Janner asked the Secretary of State for Energy whether he is satisfied with the standards and frequency of inspection of gas appliances and with the standard of their installation.
Dubs asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what is his assessment of the effect on the prison population of the implementation of section 47 of the Criminal Law Act 1977.
Knox asked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether he is satisfied that the changes which are being made concerning the statutory right of district councils to representation on...
www.theyworkforyou.com /wrans/?d=1981-10-28   (4540 words)

  
 NATO Who's who?: NATO SecGen Lord Robertson
He was Defence Secretary of the United Kingdom from 1997-1999 and Member of Parliament for Hamilton and Hamilton South from 1978-1999.
George Islay MacNeill Robertson was born in 1946 in Port Ellen, Isle of Islay, Scotland, and educated at Dunoon Grammar School and the University of Dundee.
He was appointed Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Social Services in 1979.
www.nato.int /cv/secgen/robert-e.htm   (461 words)

  
 Improving Services / Selected cases / Selected Cases and Summaries of Completed Investigations - October 1998 - March ...
The then Minister of State for Social Security wrote to the then Member saying that WPA had thoroughly investigated Mr K's case but no grounds could be found for the payment of compensation, and there was "nothing" further they could add to that which had already been said.
On 12 March the then Minister of State for Social Security wrote to the then Member saying that the situation was difficult as Mr K did not seem to be prepared to accept the fact that WPA were unable to compensate him any further.
He said that the Secretary of State for Social Security was required to award an interim assessment instantly in the circumstances which had applied to his case.
www.ombudsman.org.uk /improving_services/selected_cases/PCA/sc9903/c1210b.html   (9366 words)

  
 John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State
He subsequently served as Secretary of State in the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, where he was instrumental in forming the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).
Dulles was a member of the United States delegation to the United Nations General Assembly in Paris in November, 1948, when Secretary of State George C. Marshall was forced to return to the United States for surgery.
The Commanding General, Military District of Washington, as the representative of the Secretary of the Army, who in turn represented the Secretary of Defense, was in charge of arranging all armed forces participation in the ceremonies.
www.arlingtoncemetery.net /jfdulles.htm   (10506 words)

  
 Louisiana Secretary of State Elections Division Index
FEMA will mail out, on behalf of the Secretary of State Ater's Office, a flyer informing applicants of their basic voting rights with regard to participating in elections scheduled in communities from which they are temporarily displaced.
In October 2004, former Secretary of State Fox McKeithen announced the appointment of Angie Rogers LaPlace as Commissioner of Elections within the Department of State.
The legislation aims to improve the administration of elections in the United States, and part of the law deals with "provisional voting." Louisiana is in compliance with the provisional voting requirements of HAVA and legislation was passed in the 2003 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature to provide for provisional voting.
www.sos.louisiana.gov /elections/elections-index.htm   (4139 words)

  
 CalendarHome.com - Barbara Castle - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
As Minister of Transport (December 23, 1965–April 6, 1968), she introduced the breathalyser to combat drink-driving, and presided over the closure of approximately 2050 miles of railways as she enacted her part of the Beeching cuts.
As First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Employment, she was never far from controversy which reached a fever pitch when the trade unions rebelled against her proposals to reduce their powers in her 1969 white paper, 'In Place of Strife'.
In 1974, after Harold Wilson's defeat of Edward Heath, Castle became Secretary of State for Social Services.
encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Barbara_Castle   (776 words)

  
 Disability Alliance UK (United Kingdom) - Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v June Batty
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions v June Batty (2005)
The Secretary of State had appealed against this decision, the key argument being that help in carrying (as opposed to drinking) hot drinks did not count as attention.
It is service of a close and intimate nature.
www.disabilityalliance.org /batty.htm   (552 words)

  
 DOMINIC CAPELLO (AP) v. SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WORK AND PENSIONS FOR JUDICIAL REVIEW OF A DECISION OF A SOCIAL SECURITY ...
Such a doctor has been approved by the Secretary of State and is accredited as able to assess applicants for benefits.
In terms of section 14 of the Social Security Act 1998, an appeal lay to a Social Security Commissioner from the decision of the appeal tribunal "on the ground that the decision of the tribunal was erroneous in point of law".
The test was whether there was an arguable point of law, and if the point being founded upon was not properly focused in the application for leave to appeal, the point had to be one which (a) should have been obvious to the commissioner, and (b) had strong prospects of success.
www.scotcourts.gov.uk /opinions/P1782.html   (6054 words)

  
 Modernising Social Services   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
One big trouble social services have suffered from is that up to now no Government has spelled out exactly what people can expect or what the staff are expected to do.
Social services provide vital services to some of the most deprived people in all parts of our country, inner cities, suburbs, small towns and rural areas.
Social services are the responsibility of 150 English local authorities.
www.archive.official-documents.co.uk /document/cm41/4169/foreword.htm   (661 words)

  
 Mallinson v Secretary of State for Social Services
However, he then stated that he had changed his view because of the difficulties which could arise if different blind persons were not treated in the same way: that is, if some are to be treated as qualifying and others not doing so.
The vital contract is between activity and a state of passivity coupled with a readiness to intervene.
The first of these cases was R v National Insurance Commissioner Ex parte Secretary of State for Social Services (1981) 1 W L R 1017, commonly known as Packer's case.
homepage.ntlworld.com /ma.rathfelder/mallins.htm   (7625 words)

  
 Louisiana Secretary of State Elections Division Index
(State candidates are the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General, Treasurer, Commissioners of Agriculture and Insurance, and Members of the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education)
The legislation aims to improve the administration of elections in the United States, and part of the law deals with "provisional voting." Louisiana is in compliance with the provisional voting requirements of HAVA and legislation was passed in the 2003 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature to provide for provisional voting.
The Elections Division of the Louisiana Secretary of State moved to new offices in December 2003 located behind the Louisiana State Archives at 3851 Essen Lane.
www.sec.state.la.us /elections/elections-index.htm   (2353 words)

  
 News and Views February 2003 - University of Bradford
In 1968 she became Secretary of State for Employment then Secretary of State for Social Services in 1974.
Then as Secretary of State for Social Services, she introduced payment of child benefit to mothers and worked on the State Earnings Related Pensions Scheme.
Her attempt to equalise services in the National Health Service with abolition of pay beds met with considerable opposition, and legislation was still in process when Harold Wilson resigned as prime minister in 1976.
www.brad.ac.uk /admin/pr/february2003/castle.php   (497 words)

  
 General Election Press Conference (Health and Social Security) | Margaret Thatcher Foundation
The judgement of the State would be substituted for the judgement of professional pension fund managers—or the interests of pensioners.
In the period in which I have been Secretary of State for Social Services, I have two children who were born in National Health Service hospitals.
They were able to do that because of the state of law at that time; they treated their members as block votes and not as individuals with the dignity to express their own view.
www.margaretthatcher.org /speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=106866   (5422 words)

  
 Social Services
"Social Security is the soft underbelly of the welfare state," declares Stephen Moore of the Club for Growth and the Cato Institute.
SECRETARY OF Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld read a statement yesterday to Congress taking responsibility for the abuse of prisoners in Iraq, and he was right to do so.
When Ambassador Joseph Wilson IV revealed that the 2003 State of the Union speech contained information known to be false, someone in the White House destroyed his wife's career by revealing that she was a C.I.A. operative.
www.costanzo.org /Rex/Commentary/SocialServices.htm   (7840 words)

  
 North Dakota Secretary of State | Business Services | Central Indexing
A registered organization that is organized under the law of a state is located in that state.
The filing states it is filed as a fixture filing and the collateral is goods that are or are to become fixtures, or
If the debtor is an organization, the filing must indicate: type of organization, jurisdiction (state of origin) of organization and organizational number (system ID number) if any.
www.nd.gov /sos/businessserv/centralindex/FAQs.html   (602 words)

  
 North Dakota Secretary of State | Business Services | Registrations
The filing must be sent by a method or medium of communication acceptable by the Secretary of State.
Privatizes any social security number of federal tax identification number disclosed or contained in any document filed with the Secretary of State.
The Secretary of State must take reasonable precautions to delete or obscure any social security number or federal tax identification numbers before releasing copies of documents to the public.
www.nd.gov /sos/businessserv/registrations/trd-name-leg-sum.html   (165 words)

  
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The Secretary of State was not entitled to a Mareva injunction preventing the disposal of assets against a parent pending the issue of a child support assessment.
There is no provision for the enforcement of any maintenance assessment except by the Secretary of State and his methods of enforcement are limited in the way I have mentioned.
First, the obligation may only be enforced by the Secretary of State and not by any other person who may be stated to be the payee in the maintenance assessment.
www.swarb.co.uk /lisc/ChSup19951995.php   (1053 words)

  
 House of Lords - Cockburn v. Chief Adjudication Officer and Another and Secretary of State for Social Services v. Fairey
Peter Gibson L.J. said that the authorities established that the frequent attention must involve some service involving personal contact carried out in the presence of the disabled person and that, as that element was absent in the case of the additional laundry, it did not qualify as attention in connection with her bodily functions.
Plainly the services which are performed by her daughter on her behalf are important to her well-being.
I am not prepared to hold that the services of an interpreter to enable her to extend her social life beyond the limits of the circle of those with whom she can communicate without an intermediary could never be reasonably required.
www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/ld199798/ldjudgmt/jd970521/cock04.htm   (4125 words)

  
 The Social Security (Notification of Deaths) Regulations 1987
The Secretary of State for Social Services, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 60, 83(1) and 84(1)
The particulars of death which are required to be furnished to the Secretary of State under these regulations are required to be so furnished for the purposes of his functions under the benefit Acts and the functions of the Department of Health and Social Services for Northern Ireland under any corresponding Northern Ireland legislation.
The prescribed manner in which particulars are required to be furnished to the Secretary of State under these regulations, is either in writing or on data material.
www.uk-legislation.hmso.gov.uk /si/si1987/Uksi_19870250_en_1.htm   (536 words)

  
 Inside OAS: Social Services to Adults
The Social Services to Adults Program is a case management program designed to assist elderly, disabled and vulnerable adults, age 18 years and older, obtain needed home and community based long-term care services, equipment and programs.
The purpose of this program is to enable and assist clients in their maintenance of self-sufficiency, economic self-support, and prevention of abuse, neglect or exploitation.
The case management model of service delivery is utilized which includes assessments, the development of individualized service plans, services coordination and linkages.
www.dhr.state.md.us /oas/social.htm   (179 words)

  
 Memorandum for the Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense
Memorandum for the Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense
I therefore direct the drawdown of up to $65 million of defense articles and services from the inventory and resources of the Department of Defense for these countries for the purposes and under the authorities of chapter 9 of part I of the FAA related to international disaster assistance.
The Secretary of State is authorized and directed to report this determination to the Congress and to arrange for its publication in the Federal Register.
www.whitehouse.gov /news/releases/2005/01/20050104-4.html   (133 words)

  
 Social Security Act, Title 16A
State plans for aid to the aged, blind, or disabled
This Title XVI of the Social Security Act is administered by the Department of Health and Human Services.
Regulations of the Secretary of Health and Human Services with respect to this Title XVI are contained in subtitle A and chapter XIII, Title 45, Code of Federal Regulations.
www.ssa.gov /OP_Home/ssact/title16a/1600.htm   (273 words)

  
 Peter Bottomley MP (Worthing West)
He has served as Secretary of the Conservative Parliamentary Committee on Health and Social Services (1977-79) and Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1979-81).
He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Cranley Onslow MP, Minister of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (1982-83) and then Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Rt Hon Norman Fowler, Secretary of State for Social Services.
Bottomley was appointed Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Employment.
www.worthing.gov.uk /YourCouncil/MembersofParliament/PeterBottomleyMPWorthingWest   (361 words)

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