HC Deb 14 October 1996 vol 282 c821W
Mr. Allen

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment how many working hours have been lost in each of the last 10 years due to occupational ill health. [40420]

Sir Paul Beresford

The information is not collected on a regular basis. However, a survey of self-reported work-related illness in England and Wales estimated that 700,000 workers believed they had experienced illnesses caused or made worse by their work and which resulted in 13 million days off work in 1989–90.