§ Dr. Roger Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will consider allowing those diagnosed, as sufferers from dust diseases of the lungs such as miners pneumoconiosis to appeal annually against adverse decisions of medical tribunals.
§ Mr. RossiI regret that resources of specialist medical manpower do not permit any further extension of appeal rights beyond that foreshadowed in my reply to my hon. Friend the Member for Huddersfield, West (Mr. Dickens) on 16 March.—[Vol. 1, c.39.] There is, of course, no restriction on the right to make fresh claims for benefit for pneumoconiosis.