§ Mr. Stephen TwiggTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment when the National Disability Council will report on its activities during the 1997–98 financial year. [54064]
§ Ms HodgeI am pleased to announce that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has today laid the National Disability Council's third annual report before Parliament. Copies of the report have been placed in the Libraries.
The Council has worked very hard during the year on an impressive array of initiatives and to develop proposals for a code of practice on improved rights of access to goods and services for disabled people. These new rights will be introduced in October 1999. The Council, therefore, has another busy year ahead as it consults on and refines the proposals. I look forward to continuing to work with the Council on this and on other initiatives to help end discrimination against disabled people.