Schedule 6
Welfare Reform Bill
9:10 am
Alison Seabeck (PPS (Rt Hon Geoff Hoon, Minister of State), Foreign & Commonwealth Office; Plymouth, Devonport, Labour)
Plymouth ranks third in the UK in terms of deaths from mesothelioma, and we believe that the amendment is useful. The dockyard is a single employer, but there was also a myriad of other employers, some of which have gone out of business as the dockyard has declined. This change is very important.