§ Baroness Fisher of Rednalasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether any progress has been made as a result of 88WA the International Year of Disabled People on national policies for the multi-handicapped blind.
§ Lord EltonGovernment initiatives to mark the International Year of Disabled People covered a wide range of policy interests. These were aimed at promoting the year's objectives and generally improving attitudes and awareness towards disabled people. Most of the initiatives were broadly based, although in some instances they were concerned with a particular disability, for example blindness, deafness, mental handicap. Some of them will certainly have benefited multi-handicapped blind people.
House adjourned at eight minutes before eight o'clock.