§ Mr. BarronTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will list the total payments made to date to each firm of solicitors in Yorkshire involved in the compensation claims for(a) chest disease and (b) vibration white finger. [118197]
§ Mrs. LiddellPayments to firms in Yorkshire to date are as follows:
(a) Chest diseases £ Ashton Morton Slack 60,150 Attey Dibb & Clegg 9,483 Beresfords (incorporating R. A. Swift) 7,005 Burton Green Williamson 1,057 Frank Allen Pennington 2,567 Graysons 1410,387 Hickmotts 7,402 Hopkins 64,544 Irwin Mitchell 23,798,443 John E. Millar & Co. 3,304 Keeble Hawson Moorhouse 44,779 Malcolm C. Foy & Co. 2,511 Nelson & Co. 13,405 Oxley & Coward 7,543 Raleys 362,772 Saffmans 15,788 Simpsons Millar 1,057 The Beaumont Partnership 2,115 Thompsons 56,065 Towells 3656,245 W. Brook & Co. 1,057 1 This includes some £48,000 in respect of trial costs 2 This includes some £3.6 million in respect of trial costs 3 This includes £0.5 million in respect of trial costs 33W
(b) Vibration white finger £ Arthur Jackson & Co. 1,896 Ashton Morton Slack 103,204 Atherton & Godfrey 7,796 Attey Dibb & Clegg 219,196 Bell Wright & Dallman 929 Beresfords (incorporating R. A. Swift) 15,803 Burton Green Williamson 1,193 Frank Allen Pennington 80,124 Graysons 114,591 Hickmotts 26,075 Ian Smith & Co. 806 Irwin Mitchell 11,214,381 Jack Thornley & Partners 917
(b) Vibration white finger £ John E. Millar & Co. 5,130 Kate Patterson & Co. 5,916 Keeble Hawson Moorhouse 98,969 Kenyon Son & Craddock 705 Mills Kemp & Brown 4,400 Morrish & Co. 11,104 Newman & Bond 976 Noonan & Co. 1,202 Oxley & Coward 223,086 Parker Rhodes 13,154 Peace & Co. 2,459 Raleys 535,649 Rowley Ashworth 2,215 Saffmans 115,575 Taylor Bracewell 831 Towells 99,761 Wake Smith 2,853 Whittles 2,191 1 This includes some £1.1 million in respect of trial costs