§ Mr. Carter-Jonesasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will provide information on the number of occasions when he has sought a reduction of disablement benefit awarded to nursing staff in the National Health Service by reference to a medical board or medical appeal tribunal.
§ Mr. RossiIn 1979, the last year for which information is available, some 2,700 cases were referred to medical appeal tribunals on the Secretary of State's behalf. No separate figures are held on the reasons for reference in each individual case or on the claimant's occupation, and to obtain this information by the scrutiny of individual case papers would involve disproportionate expense.