§ Mr. KirkwoodTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what was the amount of money given under section 64 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 to(a) all organisations working with and for disabled people and (b) all organisations working with and for deaf people, for each year from 1980 to the latest available date.
§ Mr. Freeman[holding answer 13 April 1989]: I have been asked to reply.
The following table, which relates to England only, gives as close an estimate as possible of the amounts given in each of the financial years 1979–80 to 1988–89 under the section 64 general scheme to (a) organisations working exclusively or primarily with or for physically disabled and sensorily impaired people: and (b) organisations working with or for deaf and hearing-impaired people. These totals do not include grants paid to some organisations concerned with specific medical conditions or organisations working primarily with mentally handicapped or mentally ill people, even though some of these also work with physically disabled people. Also excluded are the awards recently made following the error in calculating the retail prices index. During the period specified by the hon. Member, grants paid under the section 64 general scheme to organisations working with physically disabled and/or sensorily impaired people totalled approximately £20.2 million. Of that, approximately £2.03 million was awarded to organisations working with or for deaf or hearing impaired people.
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Total disabled Deaf/hearing impaired £ £ 1979–80 1,058,457 54,060 1980–81 1,641,283 155,420 1981–82 12,031,507 158,600
Total disabled Deaf/hearing impaired £ £ 1982–83 1,837,190 173,333 1983–84 2,129,394 289,500 1984–85 2,153,267 193,054 1985–86 2,339,083 241,950 1986–87 2,535,750 232,000 1987–88 2,528,043 256,300 1988–89 21,975,965 273,944 1 This total includes the continuation of a number of grants related to the International Year of the Disabled in 1981. 2 This total excludes the sum of £686,000 paid to Motability in 1988–89, as that grant was removed from the Section 64 general scheme in that year. Grants to Motability are included in the totals for earlier years.