§ Mr. Cabornasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what evidence is available to him of the risks to women whose male partners work in heavy industry of contracting cancer of the cervix.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeThe most recent information available was published in the registrar general's decennial supplement for England and Wales for the years 1970–72 on occupational mortality; a copy is in the Library. This information includes data on deaths of married women by cause and by husband's occupation, and was published at the occupation order level; it does not specify the industry in which the husband worked. More recently there has been discussion in the medical press of occupational risks of cervical cancer. I refer the hon. Member to a paper by Mrs. Jean Robinson "Cancer of the Cervix: Occupational Risks of Husbands and Wives and Possible Preventive Strategies" published in "Pre-clinical Neoplasia of the Cervix. Proceedings of the 9th study group of the Royal162W College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists October 1981"; and to correspondence in The Lancet for 24–31 December 1983 and 3 March 1984.