§ Mr. D. E. Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the total number of persons currently receiving disablement benefit under the Industrial Injuries Act as a result of pneumoconiosis who were employed as slate quarrymen.
§ Mr. Alec JonesI regret that this information is not available. The table below shows the number of cases of pneumoconiosis newly diagnosed in Great Britain for each of the last 10 years where the industry concerned was slate mining and slate splitting:
1964 69 1965 43 1966 41 1967 23 1968 42 1969 37 1970 40 1971 16 1972 28 1973 21