asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will ask the Industrial Injuries Advisory Council to consider whether vibration white finger should be prescribed as an industrial disease.

My right hon. Friend has today asked the council

"to consider whether, having regard to those sections of the Council's 1975 report on Vibration Syndrome relating to Vibration White Finger and to the new evidence on that condition which has since come forward, Vibration White Finger should be prescribed as an industrial disease under the provisions of the Social Security Act 1975; and to report".