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Mr. Greenway
asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what progress has been made towards the implementation of the decision announced on 21 January 1981 to prescribe occupational asthma under the industrial injuries scheme.
Mr. Rossi
I am pleased to announce that regulations were laid today, to take effect from 29 March 1982, to prescribe occupational asthma as an industrial disease for the purposes of industrial injuries benefits.