Proposed Ban On White Asbestos

EDM number 331 in 1998-99, proposed by Michael Clapham on 16/02/1999.

That this House is most concerned that, despite all the evidence from European and United Kingdom scientific bodies, Canada still maintains that white asbestos is less dangerous to human health than appropriate substitutes and disregards the evidence from the records of the Canadian mining company, Johns Manville, whose personal injury settlement trust pays compensation for product liability and has records showing a total of 387,000 claims on file, including 242,051 for asbestosis and 16,132 for mesothelioma, which illustrates the cynical indifference shown by the Canadian Reference to the World Trade Organisation asking them to rule against the French ban; and urges the United Kingdom Government to go ahead with a unilateral ban if a European one fails to materialise in the near future.

This motion has been signed by a total of 60 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.