Clause 42
Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill
11:30 am
Michael Clapham (Barnsley West and Penistone, Labour)
Such cases crop up from time to time. You may have come across cases in your constituency, Mr. Taylor, given that it is a mining constituency, in which people have moved abroad and then been diagnosed with a disease for which compensation is available, such as under the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease scheme. The Minister might be aware that under that scheme there is a procedure whereby medical reports from abroad are the accepted basis for determining a diagnosis. Presumably, she would work in a similar way, because it is no use inventing the wheel twice. If the procedure under the COPD scheme is working well, maybe the Department should look at it as a way in which to deal with cases from abroad in relation to payments under the scheme that we are discussing here.