Surface Workers And The Recommendation Of The Former Trade And Industry Select Committee

EDM number 199 in 2005-06, proposed by Michael Clapham on 24/05/2005.

That this House notes that the Claimants Solicitors Group estimates that there are between 3,000 and 5,000 ex-colliery surface workers who have a potential claim against the former British Coal for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and is encouraged by the Minister's response when he gave an undertaking that the DTI would give `maximum consideration to resolving the issue' of surface workers' claims; and now calls on the Department to accept the recommendation of the Trade and Industry Select Committee in the previous Parliament in their Fourteenth Report 2004-05, `Coal Health Compensation Schemes', agreed on 22nd March 2005, that a just solution would be to allow ex-surface workers to be admitted to the COPD compensation scheme.

This motion has been signed by a total of 66 MPs.