HC Deb 26 July 1977 vol 936 c113W
Mrs. Bain

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if, having regard to the importance attached to occupational cancers by the International Agency for Research on Cancer and estimates that they account for 1 per cent. to 5 per cent. of all cancers, he will give an estimate of the likely number of occupational cancer deaths annually in Great Britain, and the number on which death benefit is actually paid under the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Acts.

Mr. Moyle

No. There is no reliable basis on which the estimate asked for can be made. There were 107 deaths in 1975 for which death benefit was paid and which were due to prescribed industrial diseases which are occupational cancers.