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Compensation For Coalminers And Widows

EDM number 1732 in 1997-98, proposed by Dafydd Wigley on 03/11/1998.

That this House calls on the Government to pay in full and immediately the compensation due, on the basis of the High Court decision of January 1998, to all ex-coalminers, and widows of miners, suffering from chronic bronchitis and emphysema.

This motion has been signed by a total of 20 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Dafydd Wigley03/11/1998CaernarfonPlaid CymruProposed
Alex Salmond03/11/1998Banff & BuchanScottish National PartySigned
Ieuan Wyn Jones03/11/1998Ynys MPlaid CymruSigned
Elfyn Llwyd03/11/1998Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Andrew Welsh03/11/1998AngusScottish National PartySigned
Ken Livingstone04/11/1998Brent EastLabourSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe04/11/1998LeighLabourSigned
Harry Barnes04/11/1998North East DerbyshireLabourSigned
Alasdair Morgan05/11/1998Galloway & Upper NithsdaleScottish National PartySigned
Robert Wareing05/11/1998Liverpool, West DerbyLabourSigned
Jim Dobbin05/11/1998Heywood & MiddletonLabour Co-operativeSigned
Eric Illsley05/11/1998Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Dennis Skinner05/11/1998BolsoverLabourSigned
Rudi Vis10/11/1998Finchley & Golders GreenLabourSigned
Alan Simpson11/11/1998Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Nigel Jones11/11/1998CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Roy Beggs11/11/1998East AntrimUUPSigned
Andrew George12/11/1998St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Joan Walley12/11/1998Stoke-on-Trent NorthLabourSigned
Tom Cox16/11/1998TootingLabourSigned

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