HC Deb 12 July 1988 vol 137 c164W
78. Mr. Nigel Griffiths

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services what consideration he is giving to the introduction of a system of benefits for disabled people irrespective of how their disability arose.

90. Mr. Ray Powell

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services what consideration he is giving to the introduction of a system of benefits for disabled people irrespective of how their disability arose.

106. Mr. Dunnachie

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services what consideration he is giving to the introduction of a system of benefits for disabled people irrespective of how their disability arose.

119. Mr. Eastham

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Services what consideration he is giving to the introduction of a system of benefits for disabled people irrespective of how their disability arose.

Mr. Scott

I recently announced in my reply to the hon. Member for Derby, South (Mrs. Beckett) on 7 June at column575 that the first report from the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys on its surveys of disabled people will be published in September and that further reports will follow in 1988 and 1989. As the results of the surveys become available, we shall be considering their implications for benefits for disabled people. This consideration is likely to include the question of different types and rates of benefit for people disabled in different circumstances.