§ 55. Mrs. Doris Fisherasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what measures are being taken to overcome the shortage of residential accommodation for the mentally subnormal.
§ Sir K. JosephLocal authorities are giving increasing priority to the provision of residential accommodation for the mentally handicapped in their capital programmes. I shall be drawing attention to the scale of development needed in the policy document which I hope to publish in the next two or three months.