HC Deb 01 November 1979 vol 972 c659W
Mr. Golding

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will introduce a telephone subsidy for the elderly, the disabled and the chronically sick.

Mr. Prentice

Questions of telephone tariffs are the business of the Post Office. It is open to a local authority, when satisfied of need, to pay telephone installation and rental charges for individual disabled or elderly people.