asked the Secretary of State for Social Services in how many cases, from 1967 to date, deaths have occurred among recipients of disability benefit arising from asbestosis.
The information is not available in the form requested. The number of successful claims for industrial death benefit for the three years from and including 1974 in which death was accepted as due to or materially accelerated by asbestosis is 196. Prior to 1974 awards of death benefit for asbestosis, which are included in the awards for pneumoconiosis, were not separately identified.
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services, from 1967 to date, in how many deaths asbestosis was attributed as the primary cause; in how many cases asbestosis was mentioned but not as primary cause; what was the primary cause in those cases; and in how many cases asbestosis was given as the underlying cause of death.
The numbers of deaths recorded for Great Britain with a mention of asbestosis were as follows:
| Assigned to asbestosis as underlying cause (ICD 515.2) | Assigned elsewhere* | Total | ||
| 1968 | … | 16 | 65 | 81 |
| 1969 | … | 22 | 55 | 77 |
| 1970 | … | 30 | 50 | 80 |
| 1971 | … | 27 | 51 | 78 |
| 1972 | … | 32 | 71 | 103 |
| 1973 | … | 28 | 82 | 110 |
| 1974 | … | 25 | 106 | 131 |
| 1975 | … | 47 | 116 | 163 |
| 1976 | … | 29 | 140 | 169 |
| * The underlying causes to which these deaths were assigned could be obtained only at a disproportionate cost | ||||