HC Deb 18 March 2002 vol 382 c126W
Mr. Caton

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in what circumstances compensation is available to workers in the shellfish industry if they are unable to pursue their livelihoods. [42699]

Mr. Morley

This Department does not operate any schemes of compensation for workers in the shellfish industry.

Mr. Caton

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment her Department has made of the economic and employment consequences of the outbreaks of atypical diarrhetic shell fish poisoning in(a) the Thames Estuary, (b) the Wash, (c) Whitstable, (d) the Menai Straits and Anglesey, (e) the Bury Inlet and (f) Strangford Lough. [42698]

Mr. Morley

I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave to him on 14 February 2002,Official Report, column 647W.

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