HC Deb 28 January 1972 vol 829 cc548-9W
Mr. Spearing

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what consultations he has had concerning offers by branches of the Post Office Engineering Union to install, free of labour costs, telephones in the homes of disabled people, particularly in respect of the operations in Wales and the Marches and the refusal of the Post Office to permit the Metropolitan West Branch of the union to install such telephones in the Borough of Ealing.

Mr. Alison

If the Post Office decides to take advantage of an offer by the union to carry out work of this kind in any area in the light of the experiment in Wales, I should of course be glad to bring it to the notice of the local authority concerned. My Department is maintaining contact with the Post Office on this matter.