Pneumoconiosis

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 27 April 1964.

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Photo of Sir Barnett Stross Sir Barnett Stross , Stoke-on-Trent Central 12:00, 27 April 1964

Do not these figures suggest that very great reliance is placed by the pneumoconiosis panels on their first X-ray examination, when there is not necessarily any clinical examination? In view of the fact that replies given by the Minister and the Parliamentary Secretaries in the past have shown that this is not entirely reliable, could not we have a review of the techniques and rely less on X-ray examination, and may we not ask for clinical examination in each and every case?