§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many awards of industrial injury benefit have been made in each of the past two years for the following injuries resulting from industrial accidents: (a) loss of both hands, (b) loss of one hand, (c) loss of 528W average weekly cost per head to the local authority of residential care for children and elderly persons living in (a) local authority homes, (b) local authority hostels and (c) voluntary homes where they are placed and paid for by the local authority for each year since 1970–71.
§ Mr. Moyle,pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 10th January 1977; Vol. 923, c. 423], circulated the following information:
The average weekly costs to local authorities in England are as follows:
index fingers, (d) loss of thumbs, (e) loss of one or both eyes, (f) loss of any finger, (g) loss of arm, (h) loss of leg, (i) loss of big toe and (j) loss of any toe.
§ Mr. OrmeI regret that some of the information requested is not available. The Department depends for details of spells of certified incapacity resulting from industrial accidents on a 2½ per cent. 529W sample of cases, and this is too small to provide data on injuries which occur very infrequently, such as those causing
SPELLS OF CERTIFIED IN CAPACITY AS A RESULT OF INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS CAUSING TRAUMATIC LOSS* Spells commencing in period Traumatic loss of— June 1973 to June 1974 June 1974 to June 1975 International Classification of Diseases N 885 … … Thumb(s) only or Thumb(s) and finger(s) of either or both hands. 240 200 N 886 … … Finger(s) only of either or both hands 1,200 760 * Spells of certified incapacity as a result of industrial accidents causing loss by surgical amputation are not included in the above figures.
§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) of deaths attracting awards of industrial death benefit how many were due to: (a) accidents and (b) diseases;
(2) how many deaths attracted awards of industrial death benefit in the latest year for which figures are available.
§ Mr. OrmeThere were 1,442 deaths in 1975 which attracted awards of industrial death benefit; of these, 724 were due to accidents and 718 were due to diseases.
§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish details of the occupations of those persons whose death attracted awards of industrial death benefit.
§ Mr. OrmeDetails are not available of the individual occupations of the 1,442 persons whose deaths in 1975 attracted awards of industrial death benefit, but the analysis by industry of these deaths is as follows:
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DEATHS IN 1975 ATTRACTING INDUSTRIAL DEATH BENEFIT ANALYSED BY ATTRIBUTABLE INDUSTRY* Industry Deaths Agriculture, forestry and fishing 32 Mining and quarrying 594 Food, drink sand tobacco 23 Coal and petroleum products 6 Chemical and allied industries 28 Metal manufacture 77 Mechanical engineering 28 Instrument engineering 1 Electrical engineering 13 Shipbuilding and marine engineering 44 Vehicles 17 Metal goods not elsewhere specified 17 Textiles 59 Leather, leather goods and fur 1 Clothing and footwear 1 Bricks, pottery, glass, cement, etc. 44 Timber, furniture, etc. 8 Paper, printing and publishing 2 the loss of an eye, a limb, of a foot, a hand, or of toes. The sample does however show the following:
Other manufacturing industries 10 Construction 138 Gas, electricity and water 21 Transport and communications 135 Distributive trades 44 Insurance, banking, finance and business services 7 Professional and scientific services 16 Miscellaneous 30 Public administration and defence 36 Total 1,442 *According to the Standard Industrial Classification 1968.
§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) if he will publish an estimate of the national resource costs of occupational accidents and diseases giving figures for: (a) fatalities, (b) industrial accidents, (c) cost associated with prescribed industrial diseases, (d) long-term incapacity, (e) non-reportable minor accidents and (f) other factors;
(2) if he will publish an estimate of the subjective costs of occupational accidents and diseases;
(3) if he will publish the resource and subjective costs of occupational accidents and diseases as a percentage of GNP.
§ Mr. MoyleNo estimates are available of the resource and subjective costs of occupational accidents and diseases subsequent to those published in Appendix 9 to the 1972 report of the Robens Committee on Safety and Health at Work. It was estimated in the report that the total of these costs amounted to 0.87 per cent. of GNP.
§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will introduce legislation to recover the costs to the NHS of work related accidents.
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§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what is the cost to the NHS of work related accidents and diseases.
§ Mr. MoyleI regret that this information is not available. The cost of treating particular diseases or conditions are not identified in the cost accounts of NHS authorities.
§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish in tabular form the relationship between the following occupations: (a) coal face workers, (b) construction workers, (C) engineering labourers, (d) furnacemen, (e) fishermen, (f) textile workers, (g>) dockers, (h) kitchen hands, (i) mine managers, (j) construction managers, (k) engineering managers, (l) personnel managers, (m)
RATIOS (PER CENT.) OF THE NUMBERS OF DEATHS OBSERVED TO THE EXPECTED NUMBERS CALCULATED FROM AGE-SPECIFIC DEATH RATES OF MEN AGED 15-64 IN ENGLAND AND WALES, 1970–72 Cause† Occupation* All Respiratory Tuberculosis (a) Cancer of Lung ect. (b) Bronchitis etc. (c) 007 Coalmine—workers underground 141 241 114 262 Order XV Construction workers 111 143 144 116 108 Labourers—Engineering and allied trades 101 147 109 151 018 Furnacemen—metal 113 — 155 162 001 Fishermen 171 376 250 280 Order X Textile workers 110 130 88 132 133 Stevedores, dock labourers 140 151 182 192 163 Kitchen hands 113 876‡ 97 91 177 Managers in mining and production 69 32 60 31 176 Managers in building and contracting 54 21 60 25 175 Managers in engineering and allied trades 65 — 60 27 178 Personnel managers 80 — 52 24 173 Ministers of the Crown, M.P.s (nec) senior government officials 61 — 37 28 214 Judges, barristers, advocates, solicitors 93 — 68 33 213 Clergy, ministers, members of religious orders 76 — 33 29 193 Primary and secondary school teachers 66 11 28 28 * The occupations are those defined in the Classification of Occupations, 1970. † The full definitions of these causes of death are: (a)Respiratory tuberculosis, ICD, 010–012; (b)Malignant neoplasm of lung, bronchus and trachea, ICD 162; (c) Bronchitis, emphysema and asthma, ICD 490—493. ‡Based on 11 deaths.
§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish in the Official Report the number of awards made under the Industrial Injuries Scheme in respect of each prescribed industrial disease in each of the past two years for which figures are available, stating in each case how many of the awards were made for a second attack of the disease.
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§ Mr. MoyleEvery 10 years the Registrar General examines mortality in relation to work by comparing the numbers of deaths with particular occupations recorded on death certificates with estimates from the Census of the number of people engaged in those occupations. Provisional ratios for England and Wales obtained from deaths during 1970–72 and the 1971 Census are given below. It should be stressed however that these figures are subject to several limitations which will be discussed in a commentary accompanying the published data. They should, therefore, be treated with reserve until the full analysis is published.
§ Mr. OrmeYes. Table 1 shows the total number of awards of injury benefit, and disablement benefit where this was not preceded by injury benefit, and also the number of those awards made for a second or subsequent attack of the disease. Awards of benefit for pneumoconiosis and byssinosis are shown separately in Table 2 because a different statistical period, calendar years, is involved.
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TABLE 1 Prescribed Disease No (See Table 3) Total number of awards: injury benefit and disablement benefit not preceded by injury benefit) Number of such awards made for second, or subsequent attack* June 1973–74 June1974–75 (Provisional) 1973–74 1974–75 Provisional) 1 … … … … 59 45 — — 2 … … … … 0 0 — — 3 … … … … 3 1 — — 4 … … … … 2 2 — — 5 … … … … 1 1 — — 6 … … … … 0 0 — — 7 … … … … 1 5 — — 8 … … … … 3 2 — — 9 … … … … 0 0 — — 10 … … … … 0 0 — — 11 … … … … 1 0 — — 12 … … … … 0 1 — — 13 … … … … 0 0 — — 14 … … … … 1 0 — — 15 … … … … 0 0 — — 16 … … … … 4 4 — — 17 … … … … 1 1 — — 18 … … … … 0 0 — — 19 … … … … 1 1 — — 20 … … … … 0 1 — — 21(a) … … … … 4 4 — — 21(b) … … … … 1 0 — — 22 … … … … 1 0 — — 23(a) … … … … 1 1 — — 23(b) … … … … 16 18 — — 23(c) … … … … 12 9 — — 25 … … … … 2 2 — — 26 … … … … 2 2 — — 27 … … … … 4 5 — — 28 … … … … 28 30 — — 31 … … … … 41 42 1 4 32 … … … … 1,030 958 86 54 33 … … … … 228 200 18 12 34 … … … … 3,711 3,501 243 228 35 … … … … 1 4 — 1 36 … … … … 5 1 — — 37(a) … … … … 0 0 — — 37(b) … … … … 0 0 — — 38 … … … … 53 51 3 — 39 … … … … 12 10 3 — 40 … … … … 1 0 — — 41 … … … … 68 60 — — 42 … … … … 11,207 10,219 1,491 1,230 43 … … … … 7 13 — — 44 … … … … 0 0 — 1 45 … … … … 1 2 — 1 46 … … … … 79 60 — — 47 … … … … 2 2 — — 48 … … … … — 72 — — 16,594 15,330 1,845 1,530 * Separate figures are available only where indicated. For the other diseases such awards are infrequent and only consolidated figures are available. These are:1973–74 —29, 1974–75 —23. 534W
TABLE 2 Disablement benefit awards Disablement benefit awards 1974 1975 Pneumoconiosis … … … 788 981 Byssinosis … … … 126 156