§ Dr. CableTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what plans he has to legalise the payment of compensation by fire authorities to firefighters who are permanently incapacitated or to dependants of firefighters killed on duty. [58590]
§ Mr. George HowarthI have been asked by the National Joint Council for Local Authorities' Fire Brigades to give statutory authority for compensation payments, originally set out in the Council's Scheme of Conditions of Service for members of fire brigades. I am considering how this can be done.