§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Social Services, how many homes and hostels there are for battered women and their children in England and Wales; and how many places approximately are available in each.
§ Mr. Geoffrey FinsbergI have been asked to reply:
Preliminary findings from a current survey being carried out for the Department of the Environment by the National Womens Aid Federation into housing needs of battered women indicate that at September 1978 there were 150 organisations or groups running refuges in England and Wales and on average there were six women and nine children per refuge.