Barbara Shenfield
Barbara Shenfield is a former academic director of the University of Buckingham. She has contributed to papers for the Adam Smith Institute and is a former chairwoman of the Women's Royal Voluntary Service[1]. In 1985 Shenfield was on the Margaret Thatcher government's child benefit review program, this prompted Gordon Brown then a Labour MP to complain that child benefit was being hijacked by right wing pressure groups[2].
Advocate of Private Healthcare reform
Shenfield contributed to a 1984 Adam Smith Institute paper which argued that users of private medical services should receive tax rebates to cover the cost of non-essential drugs and services supplied on the National Health Service[3].
Affiliations
Adam Smith Institute | University of Buckingham | Women's Royal Voluntary Service
Notes
- ↑ David Hearst, Review of child benefit 'hijacked by right' / Labour MP calls for scrapping of review or dismissal of the two non-government members, The Guardian, 14-September-1984
- ↑ David Hearst, Review of child benefit 'hijacked by right' / Labour MP calls for scrapping of review or dismissal of the two non-government members, The Guardian, 14-September-1984
- ↑ David Hearst, Review of child benefit 'hijacked by right' / Labour MP calls for scrapping of review or dismissal of the two non-government members, The Guardian, 14-September-1984
