HC Deb 18 May 1990 vol 172 cc579-80W
Mr. Wigley

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many children and what percentage of the children of Wales are disabled.

Mr. David Hunt

Surveys of disability in Great Britain carried out by the Office of Population Censuses arid Surveys between 1985 and 1988 suggest that there are about 18,000 disabled children under the age of 16 years in Wales, which represents 3.1 per cent. of the child population of Wales.