§ Mr. KirkwoodTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will list in theOfficial Report, for the past five years for which figures are available, the number of applications for mobility allowance received by medical
890Wsuspended the normal visits undertaken to review claims (LO2 visits) during the transitional period of the introduction of the new social security arrangements.
§ Mr. Peter LloydThe table gives the number of local offices suspending one visit or more during each of the four-week periods of the exercise to convert supplementary benefit cases to income support:
mobility allowance for children reaching the age of five, to avoid the requirement to return to the United Kingdom for medical examination.
I have seen many examples of excellent practice in this country by health and education professionals working with disabled children. I welcome the work of the Birmingham Foundation for Conductive Education, in piloting the training of United Kingdom conductors, in association with the Peto institute. I shall await with great interest the findings of the associated research project, to which Government have contributed substantial funding. I also welcome the interest shown by health and education professionals in this country in aspects of conductive education and I hope that my visit will lead to more exchanges of good practice between the United Kingdom and Hungary. All these developments have the potential of adding to the range of options open to parents of motor-disordered children in the United Kingdom.