§ Mr. McAllionTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland whether his Department will carry out an inquiry into the failure to monitor regularly the health of tunnellers who worked on the Clyde tunnel between 1959 and 1964.
§ Mr. OppenheimI have been asked to reply.
The records available show that medical surveillance was carried out in accordance with the then new Work in Compressed Air Special Regulations 1958, and the doctors performing the work were experienced in medical surveillance of the workers involved in the operations.