Disablement Income Group

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Social Services – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 6 November 1973.

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Photo of Mr Jack Ashley Mr Jack Ashley , Stoke-on-Trent South 12:00, 6 November 1973

Instead of circling the subject with his usual circumspection, will the right hon. Gentleman give a specific commitment that the Government will introduce a disablement income during this Parliament? Will he use as the criterion, not loss of earnings but the degree of disability, so as to include house-wives and the congenitally disabled?