HC Deb 29 June 1972 vol 839 cc398-9W
Mr. Clinton Davis

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will make a statement concerning the Government's policies relating to industrial diseases consequent upon the decision of Cartwright v. G. K. N. Sankey, decided in Birmingham in May, 1972.

Mr. Dean

I have studied the decision, and I am satisfied that there are no grounds for changing the provisions of the Industrial Injuries Act which have to be satisfied before a disease can be prescribed as an industrial disease.