To ask the Secretary of State for Health if she will make a statement on progress made with the national disability information project; what applications for resource support have been received from federations of local information providers from the national disability information project fund; and what allocations of resources have been made.

We received 101 applications from federations to become pilot sites. 12 pilot sites were selected, with funding as follows:

	1991–92	1992–93	1993–94
Berkshire	18,400	33,590	36,400
Birmingham	70,850	62,500	64,344
Devon	26,100	38,500	51,000

	1991–92	1992–93	1993–94
North East Yorkshire	24,161	59,697	72,873
Gateshead	48,000	62,820	67,380
Gloucestershire	30,301	38,100	37,300
Kent	64,000	53,660	65,000
Manchester	19,931	54,700	70,000
Norfolk	16,565	49,631	62,500
Oldham	37,589	56,119	81,982
Southwark	21,338	49,282	65,450
Walsall	32,963	46,850	48,000

The project is being co-ordinated on the Department's behalf by the Policy Studies Institute (PSI). The PSI report that the pilots have made important developments in the dissemination of information to disabled people. A formal evaluation is being carried out by the Research Institute for Consumer Affairs, who will' report to the Department of Health after the project ends in 1994–95.