HC Deb 17 October 1989 vol 158 c33W
Mr. Robin Cook

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will restore the Government grant to the Calibre cassette library for the blind and handicapped.

Mr. Freeman

Calibre received funding under our section 64 scheme of grants from 1976 until 1984 when a three-year tapering grant ended. We have since received no further application for funding.

Any new application for funding from Calibre will receive careful consideration. However, as their activity relates to the provision of a library, rather than a health or social service, it is very unlikely that their application would meet our criteria for grants under the section 64 scheme.