§ Mr. Ieuan Wyn JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales what was the total number of registered disabled people in Wales in each year since 1979.
§ Mr. GristThe numbers of people in Wales on local authority registers for the disabled in each year since 1979 were as shown in the following table:
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Persons with a mental handicap Others1 1979 n/a 70,043 1980 n/a 75,096 1981 n/a 84,291 1982 n/a 91,435 1983 n/a 100,037 1984 n/a 109,729 1985 n/a 119,091 1986 n/a 130,872 1987 n/a 138,302 1988 9,470 144,770 1989 9,726 149,612 1Includes the blind, deaf and persons with other classes of physicalhandicap.