To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if he will review the decision to cut the Royal National Institute for the Blind's braille grant;(2) what representations his Department has received concerning the Royal National Institute for the Blind's braille grant.

I refer the hon. Member to the reply my noble Friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health gave to Lord Carter on 23 October at columns 1237–40 in another place. We have no plans to review our decision to reduce the Royal National Institute for the Blind's braille grant this year. We have received some 300 letters on the subject from hon. Members and members of the public. My noble Friend met a delegation from the Royal National Institute for the Blind on 19 November.