§ Mr. Oakesasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) if he will make industrial deafness a prescribed industrial disease under the Industrial Injuries Acts;
(2) if he has now studied the Report of the Working Party on Industrial Deafness; what action he proposes to take upon it; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. SwinglerI understand that the final report on the long-term Government research project on occupational deafness will be received shortly and when we have studied it we shall decide upon the action to be taken.