Pneumoconiosis And Grant Of Probate

EDM number 348 in 2016-17, proposed by Alan Meale on 18/07/2016.
Categorised under the topics of Benefits policy, Coal, Diseases and Industrial health and safety.

That this House is concerned about the decision of the Department of Work and Pensions to include a requirement that relatives of deceased mineworkers be required to accompany any application with a Grant of Probate, the purpose of doing so to apparently reduce the overall amount of compensation payable under the Coal Workers Pneumoconiosis Scheme 1974 to recipients; believes such a practice to be despicable and a direct attack on carers who have devoted much of their lives looking after loved ones terminally damaged by their employment; and calls upon the Government to end forthwith such demeaning practices.

This motion has been signed by a total of 39 MPs.