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Disabled Persons

Volume 721: debated on Thursday 2 December 1965

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asked the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance (1) how many people registered as disabled are in receipt of National Assistance, sick benefit, and industrial injury benefit, respectively;(2) how many men registered as disabled and drawing National Assistance in December, 1964 were affected by the wage stop; what proportion of the total affected by the wage stop this was; and what was the average reduction in the assistance they would otherwise have been entitled to.