HC Deb 01 June 1981 vol 5 cc255-7W
Mr. Ashley

asked the Sercretary of State for Social Services how many, and what proportion, of the claims received for payment under the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1980 arose from damage from the pertussis vaccine, and how many from other vaccines; and if he will specify which they were. Manpower Services Commission courses, (iii) were referred to home employment offices for placing and (iv) who left for other reasons in the years 1975 to 1980; and, for each year, how many found work soon after being placed on waiting lists or offered places on re-establishment courses.

Mr. Rossi

Information in respect of all men with homes in the metropolition county of Merseyside or in Liverpool who attend re-establishment courses could not be obtained without disproportionate cost. However, the figures which are available for the Fazakerley re-establishment centre, which is the only centre in the Merseyside social security region and is used solely by men from that region, are set out in the table below.

Sir George Young

The vaccination categories of 2,606 of the 2,705 claims received up to 10 April 1981 are as follows:

Claims associated with Pertussis vaccine: 2081
Claims
Triple 981
Triple and polio 734
Triple and smallpox 19
Triple and measles 5
Triple polio and measles 8
Triple polio and smallpox 10
Triple measles and smallpox 1
Triple polio measles and smallpox 2
Pertussis 189
Pertussis and smallpox 2
Pertussis and polio 5
Pertussis and diphtheria 13
Pertussis diphtheria and polio 79
Pertussis measles tetanus and diphtheria 4
Pertussis measles and smallpox 1
Pertussis diphtheria smallpox and measles 4
Pertussis polio and tetanus 2
Pertussis diphtheria and rubella 1
Pertussis polio diphtheria and measles 2
All prescribed diseases 19

Claims not associated with Petussis vaccine: 525
Claims
Diphtheria 39
Polio 129
Polio and smallpox 3
Polio and tetanus 1
Provocation polio 3
BCG 26
Measles 89

Claims
Rubella 12
Tetanus 1
Smallpox 190
Diphtheria tetanus and polio 22
Diphtheria tetanus and rubella 10