§ Mr. Sheldonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what estimates he has made of the cost of a four-wheel invalid carriage.
§ Sir K. JosephA car modified for use by a person not so extremely disabled as to make the conversion difficult is likely to cost much the same as a purpose-built three-wheeler. Modifications to accommodate the most severely disabled would cost far more, if practicable at all. Health service expenditure priority questions arise, however, not so much be-252W cause of differences in unit costs as from the scale of issue associated with a wider availability of family transport paid for by the community. Such aspects are among those that will need to be considered after Lady Sharp has reported later this year. This is a complex problem to which there is no simple answer.