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Compensation (Asbestosis)

Volume 410: debated on Monday 15 September 2003

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To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the average compensation per person paid by his Department to claimants suffering from asbestosis was in each of the last three years. [129706]

The amount paid in compensation and the associated legal costs of cases brought against the Ministry of Defence are not in general recorded separately and could be obtained only at a disproportionate cost. The average amount paid in compensation and legal costs by the MOD to claimants suffering from asbestos related disease for the last three years was as follows:

£
2000–0135,556
2002–0226,644
2002–0336,233