To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will make it his policy to distribute claim forms for attendance allowance for terminally ill people (DS 1500) to social workers employed by local authorities.

Claim forms for attendance allowance are available to social workers. The DS1500 is not a claim form; it is a medical report form.

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what evidence he has on the efficiency of general practitioners in administering the DS 1500 claim form for attendance allowance for terminally ill people.

The DS1500 is not a claim form; it is a medical report which supports an attendance allowance claim made on the grounds of terminal illness. There is no evidence to suggest that general practitioners are failing to provide these reports.