§ Mr. Carter-Jonesasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what steps he has taken to ensure that disabled people are aware of the help available to them in adapting their homes under Sections 56 and 65 of the Housing Act 1974; if he will ask local authorities to give maximum publicity to this new form of assistance; and if he will make a further statement.
§ Mr. KaufmanI hone that local authorities will lose no opportunity to publicise these provi:sions. Copies of a general booklet on the new house renovation grants will shortly be available for distribution through a variety of agencies, including local authorities, which have already been provided with advance copies. I am urgently considering with my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Social Services what further measures are needed to alert disabled people to the existence of this new form of help.
§ Mr. Carter-Jonesasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will publish annual statistics of the number and value of grants paid to registered disabled persons by each local authority for which they would not have been eligible if they had not been registered disabled.
§ Mr. KaufmanI am arranging for this information to be obtained from local authorities periodically under general arrangements for monitoring the system of house renovation grants and will gladly make the results available annually.