HC Deb 28 November 1980 vol 994 c217W
Dr. Roger Thomas

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will consider implementing in England parallel provisions to those recommended in the report entitled "You and Your Baby", published by the Advisory Committee on Infant mortality and Handicap in Northern Ireland; and which recommendations he considers would have minimal or no extra cost implications.

Sir George Young

Dr. Baird's advisory committee has drawn up its recommendations with specific reference to problems of infant mortality and handicap in Northern Ireland. The second report of the Social Services Committee, which deals with very much the same problems in relation to England, also contains numerous recommendations, to which the government have given careful consideration and hope to publish a full reply shortly.