§ Miss Boothroydasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give the total number of industrial disease and industrial injury cases reported in the west midlands in 1983, together with the amount of compensation paid for the same period.
§ Mr. NewtonThere were 11,192 claims for injury and disablement benefit in respect of industrial accidents and 115W prescribed industrial diseases in the west midlands in 1983. I regret that no regional breakdown of expenditure on these benefits is available.