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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 12 March 2008.

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Photo of Stephen Hepburn Stephen Hepburn Labour, Jarrow 11:30, 12 March 2008

The Prime Minister will be aware of the disgraceful plight of pleural plaque sufferers in this country, who are being denied their rightful claim to compensation by the courts. Does he agree that it does not matter how the issue is dressed up: pleural plaques are a working-class industrial injury caused by negligent exposure to asbestos? Will he meet the group of MPs who have been campaigning on the issue, so that we can bring an end to this dreadful, Victorian scandal?