HC Deb 30 July 1981 vol 9 c490W
Mr. Wigley

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is his estimate of the proportion of persons who are entitled to register as handicapped under section 29 of the National Assistance Act 1948 who register.

Mr. Rossi

I refer the hon. Member to the survey by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, "Handicapped and Impaired in Great Britain"—HMSO 1971—and to my reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Brigg and Scunthorpe (Mr. Brown) on 4 March.—[Vol. 1000, c.123.]