§ Mr. Masonasked the Minister of Health if he will list the categories of disabled who have received vehicles from his Department, stating separately the numbers of disabled in each category and the type of vehicle issued to them.
§ Miss PittFor power-propelled invalid tricycles I would refer the hon. Member to the reply given to the right hon. Member for Caerphilly (Mr. Ness Edwards) on 11th April. The categories are the same for war pensioners and National Health Service patients.
On 4th April my right hon. and learned Friend announced his intention to provide small cars for those war pensioners disabled in the service of their country who are eligible for Government power-propelled tricycles. Until that date to be medically eligible for a car a war pensioner had to be in one of the first two groups described in the reply on 11th April and receive 100 per cent. pension for his locomotor disability.
The number of cars and power-propelled tricycles on issue in England 54W and Wales to war pensioners and National Health Service patients in each of the three group my right hon. and learned Friend then referred to was, on 31st March:
— First group Second group Third group Cars 396 1,188 — Petrol engined tricycles 448 7,478 2,918 Electric engined tricycles 58 2,181 272