§ Mr. Wigleyasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many new cases there were registered in Wales in 1983 of persons recognised for their first time to be suffering from pneumoconiosis and related industrial lung diseases; and how this figure compares with corresponding figures for each of the past 10 years.
Prescribed Industrial Disease Year Pneumoconiosis Diffuse Mesothelioma* Occupational Asthma† Beryllium poisoning Primary Carcinoma of a bronchus or lung Extrinsic allergic alveolitis 1983 134 17 30 1 1 3 1982 150 24 18 1 — 1 1981 211 17 — — 1 3 1980 216 12 — 1 2 5 1979 196 16 — — 1 4 1978 203 10 — 1 1 — 1977 234 8 — — — 1 1976 257 9 — — 1 3 1975 253 4 — 1 — 1 1974 206 12 — — — 1 1973 166 2 — — — — * Provisional figures. † Prescribed as an industrial disease in March 1982