§ Mr. Stevensasked the Secretary of State for Social Services when the recommendations of the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council on the prescription of lung cancer will be implemented.
§ Mr. MajorI am pleased to announce that regulations were laid today which will add this disease to the schedule of prescribed diseases from 1 April 1987. Benefit will be payable to those who suffer from lung cancer who work or who have worked underground in a tin mine, or who are or were exposed to bis(chloromethyl) ether produced during the manufacture of chloromethyl methyl ether, or who are or were exposed to zinc chromate, calcium chromate or strontium chromate in their pure forms, while at work.