Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Social Services – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 4 December 1973.
Mr Michael McNair-Wilson
, Walthamstow East
12:00,
4 December 1973
I accept my hon. Friend's statement that the report related to compensation. But surely pre-employment tests would allow one to define the level of hearing of an employee before he was subjected to noise in manufacturing industry and would allow one to withdraw a person from that noise if subsequent tests warranted this. Surely prevention of hearing loss is more important than compensation for it.