HC Deb 20 January 1993 vol 217 c258W
Rev. Martin Smyth

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many disabled people below the pensionable age are living in Northern Ireland.

Mr. Mates

Estimates derived from the surveys of disability undertaken by the policy planning and research unit of the Department of Finance and Personnel in 1989–90 indicate that, according to the definition used in the survey, there were 96,000 disabled people under pension age in Northern Ireland.