§ Mr. Skinnerasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will provide updated figures for the number of awards of industrial death benefit for (a) asbestosis, (b) absestosis and lung cancer and (c) mesothelioma in 1982.
§ Mr. NewtonI refer the hon. Member to my reply of 26 July 1983—[Vol. 46, c.422–23.]—for the number of awards of industrial death benefit for (a) asbestosis, (b) asbestosis and lung cancer relating to deaths in 1982. This is the latest date for which figures are available.
The number of awards of industrial death benefit for mesothelioma as at 31 December 1983 relating to deaths in 1982 is 167.