§ Mr. Harperasked the Secretary of State for Tade and Industry if he will give the figures for the last 10 years of people certified to be suffering from pneumoconiosis in the Yorkshire coalfield; and what percentages those figures represent of the total men employed in that coalfield.
§ Mr. RidleyThe first column shows the number of employees and former employees of the coal industry in the North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, Doncaster and Barnsley areas of the National Coal Board who were certified under the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Acts in each year; the second column shows these numbers as percentages of the total numbers of National Coal Board employees in the coal mining industry in these areas at 30th September in each year.
1960 … 647 … 0.50 1961 … 605 … 0.48 1962 … 518 … 0.41 1963 … 721 … 0.59 1964 … 283 … 0.24 1965 … 199 … 0.17 1966 … 222 … 0.21 1967 … 180 … 0.17 1968 … 169 … 0.18 1969 … 160 … 0.18