Lieut.-Colonel JOHN WARDasked the Home Secretary the name of each trade and occupation now scheduled under the industrial disease provisions of the Workmen's Compensation Acts?
§ Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKSI am sending the hon. and gallant Member a list of the diseases and processes scheduled under Section 43 of the Workmen's Com-1178W pensation Act, 1925. It must be remembered that the scheduling of certain processes in the case of particular diseases does not have the effect of limiting to persons, engaged in that process the right to claim compensation in respect of the disease; it merely establishes a presumption that where the workman was employed in a scheduled process at or immediately before the time of disablement, the disease was due to the nature of that employment. Where the workman was employed in some other process the onus of proof that the disease is due to the nature of the employment rests upon him. In addition to the scheduled diseases, two schemes have been made under Section 47 of the Act for silicosis, one for the refractories industries and the other for the metal grinding industries.