§ Mr. Kinnockasked the Secretary of State for Energy if he will make a statement about the current state of progress in the development of his Department's policy for providing compensation for men who were obliged to commute claims for compensation for industrial diseases contracted in the coal mining industry under legislation which has now been superseded.
§ Mr. John MooreThe conditions for benefit under the coal pneumoconiosis compensation scheme are a matter for the National Coal Board and the mining unions. I understand that men who commuted their benefit indemnified their employers against further liability and are therefore disqualified from benefit under the present scheme.