§ Mr. Prescottasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will instruct 186W the Employment Medical Advisory Service to look into the health problems of all British seafarers in conjunction with those of trawlermen.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithNo. My Department's Employment Medical Advisory Service is at present giving preliminary consideration to the desirability and practicability of monitoring the health of trawlermen but the very much wider question of monitoring the health of all British seafarers could be contemplated only in the very much longer term.