HC Deb 05 April 1976 vol 909 c64W
Mr. George Rodgers

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if she will give a progress report on the research on handicapped children being carried out at the Family Fund Research Unit at York University.

Mr. Alfred Morris

My hon. Friend will be pleased to learn that my Department will be supporting this important research project over the next five years as part of our commitment to carry out research on handicapped children, given in the report " Social Security Provision for Chronically Sick and Disabled People " (House of Commons paper 276, September 1974). The cost of our support is estimated at £100,000. Final details of the research programme are still under consideration; but priority is being given to an income and expenditure survey, on which preliminary work has already begun.