§ Mr. Tinnasked the Prime Minister if she is satisfied with the co-ordination between the Department of Health and Social Security and the Department of Trade and Industry on policy covering the communication needs of the elderly and the disabled.
§ The Prime MinisterYes. Recent examples of close co-operation between the two Departments in this area have been over the arrangements to be made for those groups requiring specialist telecommunications equipment in the context of British Telecom's privatisation; and over the Government's information technology awareness programme as it affects disabled people.