§ Mr. Roy HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will amend the regulations so that claimants for compensation through injury or occupational disease do not have to pay back state benefits after their claim has been settled when the level of compensation is over £2,500.
§ Miss WiddecombeThe principle that accident victims should not be compensated twice has been a feature of the social security scheme since 1948. The compensation recovery scheme has merely replaced the old and inconsistent arrangements, by which negligent employers and other compensators gained at the expense of the taxpayer. The scheme is working well and there are no plans for major change.