Industrial Diseases: Compensation

(asked on 5th March 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many awards of compensation under the Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers Compensation) Act 1979 were paid to workers employed in (a) slate quarrying and (b) slate mining in the last year for which figures are available; and how many of those cases related to diffuse mesothelioma.


Answered by
Justin Tomlinson Portrait
Justin Tomlinson
This question was answered on 10th March 2020

The information requested is not readily available and to provide it would incur disproportionate cost.

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