§ 78. Mr. J. Griffithsasked the Minister of Pensions and National Insurance if he will either give further consideration to the widening of the definition of pneumoconiosis, or prescribe emphysema caused, or aggravated, by the conditions of the work of coal miners as an industrial disease.
§ Mr. Boyd-CarpenterMy Department keeps in close touch with the research activities of the Medical Research Council and others bearing on the problems of the respiratory conditions mentioned. But there is at present no evidence to justify the action suggested by the right hon. Gentleman.