Written Question·Department for Work and Pensions·UIN 90004

Industrial Diseases: Silica

Tabled: 11 November 2025

Answered: 17 November 2025

Question

Margaret Mullane

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, if he will take steps to improve data collection on occupational diseases linked to silica exposure.

Answer

Sir Stephen Timms

Clinical assessments of silicosis are being reported on the Surveillance of Work-related and Occupational Respiratory Disease (SWORD) database, which collects voluntary information from around 350 physicians of respiratory disease, including silicosis. Th...

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