§ 89. Mr. Win GriffithsTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services in how many cases in 1986 medical appeals tribunals dealing with industrial injuries did not adopt the clinical findings of the adjudicating medical authority.
§ Mr. PortilloInformation is not held centrally in the form requested and it would involve disproportionate 173W expense to extract it from case records. Although the clinical findings of adjudicating medical authorities form only a part of the evidence considered by medical appeal tribunals (which will in any event consider the whole case afresh and may have more recent clinical findings available to them), the hon. Member might find the following information helpful:
Appeals heard by medical appeal tribunals on industrial injuries questions in the year ending December 1986 Decision favourable to claimant Subject Number of appeals heard Number Per cent. Prescribed diseases 530 259 49 Industrial accidents 8,429 3,916 46 Total 8,959 4,175 47