To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will list the numbers of disablement benefit claims for asbestos-related diseases referred to special medical boards, and the number in which the disease were diagnosed, for all available years commencing with 1988 in the same format as the tables given in reply to the hon. Member for Lewisham, Deptford (Ms. Ruddock) 30 June 1988, Official Report, columns 343–48.
The information requested is in the tables.
References Prescribed disease
| Postive diagnosis Prescribed disease
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Medical Boarding Centre
| D1
| D3
| D8
| D9
| Total
| D1
| D3
| D8
| D9
| Total
|
| Manchester | 132 | 53 | 37 | 33 | 255 | 35 | 46 | 13 | 6 | 100 |
| Newcastle | 131 | 52 | 16 | 44 | 243 | 25 | 47 | 6 | 28 | 106 |
| Sheffield | 98 | 80 | 22 | 55 | 255 | 35 | 76 | 5 | 27 | 143 |
| Stoke | 25 | 29 | 9 | 11 | 74 | 11 | 26 | 4 | 1 | 42 |
| Swansea | 7 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 22 | 3 | 6 | — | 5 | 14 |
| ALL CENTRES | 741 | 480 | 171 | 261 | 1,653 | 268 | 441 | 54 | 125 | 888 |
1990
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| Cardiff | 62 | 57 | 32 | 50 | 201 | 27 | 53 | 11 | 14 | 105 |
| Glasgow | 216 | 54 | 33 | 39 | 342 | 90 | 53 | 9 | 21 | 173 |
| London | 113 | 171 | 51 | 60 | 395 | 59 | 160 | 7 | 20 | 246 |
| Manchester | 161 | 64 | 63 | 48 | 336 | 59 | 48 | 13 | 14 | 134 |
| Newcastle | 250 | 62 | 55 | 81 | 448 | 18 | 57 | 5 | 40 | 120 |
| Sheffield | 103 | 79 | 30 | 61 | 273 | 36 | 69 | 4 | 26 | 135 |
| Stoke | 26 | 24 | 17 | 14 | 81 | 11 | 19 | 4 | 9 | 43 |
| Swansea | 12 | 5 | 12 | 7 | 36 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 16 |
| ALL CENTRES | 943 | 516 | 293 | 360 | 2,112 | 306 | 462 | 58 | 146 | 972 |