asked the Secretary of State for Employment why the promised survey of the area within a 10-mile radius of Ormskirk to ascertain the need for a sheltered workshop of the handicapped has not been carried out by the Manpower Services Commission; and when the survey will start.

I am informed by the Manpower Services Commission that following an approach by the Southport and District Disablement Advisory Committee preparations are in hand to start an in-depth survey in early 1980 of the need for sheltered employment in the Ormskirk area.