§ Miss Fookesasked the Secretary of State for Transport whether he has set up the review of the medical standards for seafarers promised in the reply to the debate on 6 July, Official Report, c. 384, on the prayer to annul the Merchant Shipping (Medical Examination) Regulations 1983.
§ Mr. David MitchellThe dean of the faculty of occupational medicine of the Royal College of Physicians, Dr. Peter Taylor, has agreed to set up a small faculty working party to review the operation of the medical and visual standards for serving seafarers and to recommend any amendments. The working party will compromise Dr. P. A. B. Raffle OBE, chairman Dr. C. C. Molloy and Dr. J. Graham Taylor with the dean as an ex-officio member. The group will start work in January and hopes to report by June 1984. Arrangements for giving evidence will be announced later.