§ 25. Mr. Woofasked the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance in how many instances during the past five years men were accepted by the Pneumoconiosis Medical Board as suffering from pneumoconiosis who had previously had their claim rejected by the Board.
§ Lieut.-Commander MaydonThe numbers of men first diagnosed as suffer-138W ing from pneumoconiosis on the second or a later occasion on which they were examined by the Pneumoconiosis Medical Board were as follows:
1958 399 1959 425 1960 458 1961 366 1962 378 Figures for 1963 are not yet available.