§ 45. Mr. Pavittasked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity if she will establish an inquiry into the administration of the workshops for the blind, with a view to establishing the reason for the gap between the gross wages of blind and disabled workers employed in sheltered workshops for the blind and the cost of administering the scheme.
§ Mr. Harold WalkerNo. The position of these workshops was thoroughly investigated by a working party whose report was published in 1962. Their operation is kept under constant review by my officers and the Industrial Advisers to the Blind Limited, a non-profit-making company which was set up in 1964 for the purpose of advising on all aspects of workshop administration including modernnisation, as recommended by the working party.