§ Mr. Jack Ashley (Stoke-on-Trent, South)I wish to present a petition:
To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled. The Humble Petition of members of the Disablement Income Group and 76,000 others sheweth:That there is inadequate help for very severely disabled people in the new Income Support scheme … implemented in April 1988.Wherefore your Petitioners pray that your Honourable House will enact legislation to introduce a special payment under the new scheme to very severely disabled people living in or wanting to live in the community whose disabilities are such that they cannot live on their own, this payment to help them pay for the personal and domestic assistance they require to live in homes of their own and to aviod institutionalisation.And your Petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray, etc.
§ To lie upon the Table.