Miners' Compensation

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Industry – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 27 January 2005.

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Photo of Michael Clapham Michael Clapham Labour, Barnsley West and Penistone 11:30, 27 January 2005

I pay tribute to the Government for what they have done with regard to the scheme for underground workers, but my hon. Friend will be aware that there is a question regarding surface workers. There were areas on the colliery surface that were extremely dusty, such as the coal prep plant, the screens and the coke batteries. Will he consider introducing a separate scheme from the current one, which need not involve solicitors and could be drawn up in a similar way to the pneumoconiosis scheme, which, by the way, covered surface workers?