Trade and Industry written question – answered at on 24 April 2006.
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry in how many claims to his Department by solicitors for miners' hearing loss an amount has been paid in costs for (a) work done by Melex Ltd., (b) fees to Vendside Ltd., (c) barristers' fees, (d) insurance premiums and (e) claimant loan interest costs.
There have been 10,376 noise induced hearing loss claims submitted by the UDM/Vendside since January 1997, for which costs have been paid to Vendside in 9,389 totalling £6.3 million.
The remaining information is not readily available. Miners' hearing loss claims are not schemed so solicitors' costs for each claim are dealt with on their own merits. Concerns relating to particular aspects of the costs would be raised as part of the negotiations on the appropriate level of costs for any given claim.
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