HC Deb 08 March 1977 vol 927 c480W
38. Mr. Skinner

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what further steps are being taken by his Department to include emphysema and bronchitis in the list of prescribed industrial diseases.

Mr. Orme

As I explained in my reply to my hon. Friend on 3rd December last —[Vol. 921, c.305–6]—I cannot hold out any hope on present evidence of prescribing these diseases as industrial diseases.