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The House will notice that my title is wider than that of the proposed new Department. This is in recognition of the fact, as the Prime Minister mentioned in the House last week, that I have been asked to continue my coordination of the whole range of social services, in addition to my responsibility
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The name "UB40" was selected in reference to a paper form issued by the UK government's Department of Health and Social Security at the time of the band's formation for claiming unemployment benefit. The designation UB40 stood for Unemployment Benefit, Form
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Although the department was titled 'Department of Health and Social Security', the title of the cabinet minister with responsibility for the department was 'secretary of state for social services'.
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was formed from the Department of Social Security, absorbing the employment functions which had previously been the responsibility of the
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Even two and a half decades after its abolition, the initials "DHSS" continue to be used by the general public to describe the
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it is mentioned by one of the characters, when sitting in a round-table meeting in relation to equal opportunities for women.
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were dissolved and their functions merged into a new Department of Health and Social Security by an
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In 1953, the Ministry of Pensions and the Ministry of National Insurance were merged to create the
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This article related to government in the United Kingdom or its constituent countries is a
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Richard Crossman, Secretary of State for Social Services (24 October 1968).
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the notable cynico-rock group from The Wirral, UK, named their first album "
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in existence for twenty years from 1968 until 1988, and was headed by the
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through a DHSS office which he mistakes for the post office.
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In 1988 the department was split again into a separate
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Ministry of Social Security Act 1966
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