§ Dr. Roger Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Wales if he will publish in the Official Report, by county, 289W the numbers of disabled which the social service department of each county serves, together with the date and time at which each individual county list was updated; and if he will indicate which counties have applied for financial assistance to institute and update such registers of the disabled.
§ Mr. Wyn RobertsThe information is not available in the form requested. However, on 31 March 1980 the numbers entered on the local authority registers of handicapped persons were as follows:
Number Clwyd 10,150 Dyfed 7,074 Gwent 6,440 Gwynedd 4,660 Powys 1,787 Mid Glamorgan 19,456 South Glamorgan 5,832 West Glamorgan 5,555 Wales Total 60,954
Area health authority Whole-time employees Part-time employees Total whole-time equivalent (WTE) WTE per 1,000 population Clwyd 12 1 12.8 0.033 Dyfed 11 1 11.5 0.035 Gwent 13 1 13.6 0.031 Gwynedd 2 1 2.6 0.011 Mid Glamorgan 25 2 26.3 0.049 Powys 7 1 7.3 0.068 South Glamorgan 21 — 21.0 0.055 West Glamorgan 20 4 22.4 0.061 WALES 111 11 117.5 0.042 Additional services are provided by other chiropodists on a sessional, fee for treatment or agency basis but information about these is not available centrally.