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Mesothelioma - Compensation For The Members Of The Armed Forces

EDM number 762 in 2015-16, proposed by Alan Meale on 25/11/2015.
Categorised under the topics of Armed forces, Armed forces welfare and Diseases.

That this House is aware that mesothelioma is a particularly aggressive form of terminal cancer caused by exposure to asbestos; recalls that in 2014 the Government established a scheme to pay lump sum payments to civilians who had contracted the illness but were unable to trace a liable employer or insurance provider, and that under its terms sufferers stand to receive significant sums in compensation; notes in contrast that members of the armed forces contracting the illness are today likely to receive considerably less because of the anomaly that they can neither sue their employer nor get redress to any illness sustained before 1987; and calls on the Government to take action to cease such an unfair approach forthwith which flies in the face of the Armed Forces Covenant.

This motion has been signed by a total of 25 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Alan Meale25/11/2015MansfieldLabourProposed
David Crausby25/11/2015Bolton North EastLabourSeconded
Ian Lavery25/11/2015WansbeckLabourSeconded
Ian Mearns25/11/2015GatesheadLabourSeconded
Ronnie Campbell25/11/2015Blyth ValleyLabourSeconded
Grahame Morris25/11/2015EasingtonLabourSeconded
Jim Shannon26/11/2015StrangfordDUPSigned
Chris Law26/11/2015Dundee WestScottish National PartySigned
Mark Durkan26/11/2015FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Kelvin Hopkins26/11/2015Luton NorthLabourSigned
Peter Bottomley26/11/2015Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Danny Kinahan30/11/2015South AntrimUUPSigned
Chris Stephens30/11/2015Glasgow South WestScottish National PartySigned
Tom Elliott30/11/2015Fermanagh and South TyroneUUPSigned
Anne McLaughlin30/11/2015Glasgow North EastScottish National PartySigned
Roger Godsiff01/12/2015Birmingham, Hall GreenLabourSigned
Mary Glindon02/12/2015North TynesideLabourSigned
Yasmin Qureshi02/12/2015Bolton South EastLabourSigned
Lady Hermon02/12/2015North DownIndependentSigned
Carol Monaghan03/12/2015Glasgow North WestScottish National PartySigned
Nigel Dodds03/12/2015Belfast NorthDUPSigned
Nick Thomas-Symonds04/12/2015TorfaenLabourSigned
Stephen Kinnock08/12/2015AberavonLabourSigned
Dennis Skinner08/12/2015BolsoverLabourSigned
Norman Lamb07/01/2016North NorfolkLiberal DemocratSigned

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