HC Deb 31 July 1975 vol 896 cc609-10W
Mr. Newens

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if she will publish in the Official Report statistics to show the incidence of leukaemia, bone cancer and other conditions likely to be produced by radiation, for the United Kingdom, at appropriate intervals from 1945 until the present.

Dr. Owen

Information on the total incidence of leukaemia, bone cancer and other malignant disease is to be found in the statistics on cancer published at intervals from 1945 onwards by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys. There are no estimates on what proportion of these cases is attributable to radiation.

Mr. Newens

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) if she will

the hon. Member for Western Isles (Mr. Stewart) on 15th July.—[Vol. 895, c. 467–8.] Specific information in the form requested relating to the NHS is not readily available but I will write to my hon. Friend as soon as it has been extracted.