§ Dr. Roger Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will make more funds available to the health education councils to enable them to increase their efforts to draw the attention of expectant mothers to causes of ill effects upon themselves and their foetuses, in order to reduce the number of damaged babies born each year.
§ Mr. Geoffrey FinsbergI note with approval that the Health Education Council is currently increasing spending on its "Mother and Baby" campaign to encourage good health in pregnancy. The campaign propagates through the popular media advice and information for pregnant women by means of free booklets, leaflets and a gramophone record. It also encourages them both to ask questions of doctors, midwives and health visitors and to claim all the health and welfare benefits to which they are entitled.