§ 58. Mr. Eadieasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list the number of deaths as a result of scheduled industrial diseases between 1960 to the nearest available date in 11W 1969; and if he will list separately the industrial diseases with the figures.
§ Mr. EnnalsI regret that information is not available in the precise form requested. Statistical records are confined to analyses of successful claims for death benefit made under the Industrial Injuries Acts and the Pneumoconiosis and Byssinosis Benefit Schemes the latest year for which these analyses have been completed is 1967.
Full details relating to the period 1960 to the end of 1967 are as follows:
Industrial Injuries Act Prescribed Disease No.* Number of cases resulting in an Award of Death Benefit 1 3 5 3 7 7 8 4 9 1 10 1 11 1 17 2 19 3 21(a) 21 23(c) 23 25 2 27 2 36 1 37(a) 9 37(b) 9 38 59 39 81 40 3 41 4 42 4 43 2 44 20 Byssinosis 119 Pneumoconiosis 5,502 Total 5,886
PNEUMOCONIOSIS, BYSSINOSIS AND MISCELLANEOUS DISEASES SCHEME Scheduled Disease Number of cases resulting in an award of death benefit Miscellaneous Diseases 4 Byssinosis 37 Pneumoconiosis 1,923 Total 1,964 *A full description of each disease is contained in the First Schedule to the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) (Prescribed Diseases) Regulations 1959, S.I. 1959 No. 467, as amended.