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ings under the same manager without receiving notice of termination on re- employment.
However, their families are notified and are, of course, free to give such publicity as they wish to the action taken by the authorities.
EMPLOYMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY
Redundant Workers (Training) 97. Mr. Dodds-Parker asked the Secre- tary of State for Employment and Pro- ductivity what plans she has to extend facilities for training and retraining those becoming redundant, and to ensure that the jobs for which they are trained will be available when they are fully trained.
Mr. Hattersley: Most of the retraining required by redundant workers is at opera- tor level and can best be given by their new employers with the help of grants from the Industrial Training Board and Government grants to new and expanding firms in Development Areas. Those suit- able for accelerated training for a skilled trade can be trained at a Government Training Centre of which there are now 42 with 13 more to be set up by early 1971. The choice of training trades at the centres is based on the prospective needs of industry, and the great majority of trainees are placed in employment on completion of training or shortly after- wards.
Minister (Television)
98. Mr. Eldon Griffiths asked the Secretary of State. for Employment and Productivity why one of the Under-Secre- taries in her Department recently officially requested the independent television com- panies to provide broadcasting time for the Minister in charge of another Depart-
ment.
Mr. Hattersley: No request of any sort was made.
Take-overs (Employees)
99. Mrs. Ewing asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity if she will take steps to ensure that com- panies retain the same obligations to which they were previously liable, for making redundancy payments to em- ployees in all cases where a company take-over occurs and where the employees carry on the same jobs in the same build-
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Mr. Hattersley: Employees in these circumstances are adequately protected.
Industrial Disease (Scrotal Cancer)
100. Mr. Edwin Wainwright asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity if she will give the number of deaths caused by scrotal cancer over each of the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the measures she intends to take to eliminate this industrial disease.
Mr. Fernyhough: The total number of reported to H.M. Factory Inspectorate deaths from occupational scrotal cancer
over the latest five-year period for which figures are available is:
1963
1964
1965
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The risk of occupational scrotal cancer arises from exposure to pitch and tar and mineral oil. The risk from pitch and, tar is controlled in certain industries by the precautions required by the Patent Fuel Manufacture (Health and Welfare) Special Regulations and similar pre- cautions are observed in other industries not subject to the Regulations.
The risk from exposure to mineral oil in the cotton industry has been controlled by the Mule Spinning Special Regulations 1953; the process of mule spinning has in any case been largely superceded. The problems arising from the widespread use of mineral oils in engineering and the precautions to be taken are fully dis- Chief Inspector of Factories for 1967 and cussed in the Annual Report of H.M.
under separate cover I am sending my hon. Friend a copy. The precautions include substitution where practicable of safer oils or a modification of process to avoid contamination of the skin; good washing facilities and the provision of protective clothing and medical super- vision. Most important of all however is to educate the worker to recognise the hazard and the importance of personal hygiene; and to seek prompt medical attention where necessary. Factory in- spectors have been instructed to encour- age employers and employees to take the appropriate precautions.
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