asked the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) how many widows and dependants of beneficiaries under the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Act and the Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit Scheme received industrial death benefit in each year since 1948; and how many received no benefit;(2) how many applications were made for industrial death benefit by dependants of beneficiaries under the National Insurance (Industrial Injuries) Acts and the Pneumoconiosis, Byssinosis and Miscellaneous Diseases Benefit Scheme; and in how many cases was benefit awarded.

I regret that the information is not available in the form requested, but the hon. Member may wish to refer to Tables 22.05, 22.06 and 22.30 in Social Security Statistics 1974 and to Table 133 (column 17) on page 362 of my Department's Annual Report for 1971. These documents are published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office and are available in the House of Commons Library.