HC Deb 25 May 1993 vol 225 cc557-8W
Mr. Callaghan

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what information he has as to additional costs incurred by people with a visual handicap as a result of their disability.

Mr. Scott

Information about the additional costs incurred by visually handicapped people was included in the surveys of disability commissioned by the Government, carried out by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, and published in 1988. Further information is available in the Royal National Institute for the Blind survey "Blind and Partially Sighted Adults in Britain", published in 1991.