HC Deb 15 February 1999 vol 325 cc551-2W
Mr. Skinner

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will list the number of(a) applications for, and (b) awards of disablement benefit in each of the years 1988 to 1997 for (1) the United Kingdom as a whole and (2) each of the special medical boarding centres for respiratory diseases for (i) asbestosis, (ii) mesothelioma, (iii) lung cancer alone, (iv) lung cancer with accompanying bilateral diffuse pleural thickening, (v) lung cancer with accompanying unilateral diffuse pleural thickening, (vi) lung cancer with pleural plaques, (vii) bilateral diffuse pleural thickening alone, (viii) unilateral diffuse pleural thickening alone and (ix) pleural plaques alone. [70183]

Mr. Bayley

Information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available has been placed in the Library.