For at least five years, we expect to be able to supply replacements and spares for present users of trikes supplied under the old scheme.
About 22,000 successful claimants opted for the allowance and not the trike.
Just over 600 successful claimants asked for trikes, but not all of them will have been found able to control the vehicle.
That there are some disabled who cannot drive a car and can only drive a trike.
I know that many of my constituents who are getting on in years still get around remarkably well with the help of their "trikes".
The second point, even if the first choice is made in favour of cars, is about the overall future of "trikes".
For example, is it possible to switch to the provision of cars now in place of "trikes"?
They would never have achieved the degree of mobility or usefulness as citizens that the trike has enabled them to achieve.
