§ Dr. Roger Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what steps he has taken to ensure that women's aid organisations are provided with sufficient finance to maintain at around the present availability the exceptional needs payments, so that battered and ill-treated wives can be provided with certain essentials, when they do not have access to their customary place of residence.
§ Mrs. ChalkerI am sorry that I have not been able to understand clearly what the problem lying behind the hon. Member's question is but if he would care to write to me, I shall do my best to give him a helpful reply.