§ Mr. Ellis Smithasked the Minister of Power if he will set out in tabular form the number of men engaged in the mining industry in North Staffordshire who suffered from pneumoconiosis for the years 1953, 1957, 1959, 1961, and 1962, the percentage of the total employed, and the national percentage for the same years.
§ Mr. PeytonThe figures for coal mining are as follows:
North Staffordshire Great Britain — Number of cases first diagnosed Percentage of total employed Cases first diagnosed as percentage of total employed 1953 … 434 2.20 0.57 1957 … 513 2.38 0.53 1959 … 94 0.46 0.53 1961 … 91 0.56 0.48 1962 … 88 0.56 0.39 The 1962 figures are provisional.