Written question asked by Adam Price (Plaid Cymru) on Wednesday, 12 June 2002, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 20 June 2002. It was answered by Brian Wilson (Labour) on Thursday, 20 June 2002 on behalf of the Department of Trade and Industry.

Dept of Trade and Industry

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how much money the Compensation Recovery Unit has reclaimed from those miners who have received compensation owing to ill health. - Includes figures.

Answer: Adam Price: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how much money the Compensation Recovery Unit has reclaimed from those miners who have received compensation owing to ill health. [62552] Mr. Wilson: I have been asked to reply. The Compensation Recovery Unit does not recover money from compensated miners. It recovers its benefit payments from the compensator. It is the responsibility of the compensator--in these cases the DTI--to recover any appropriate benefit from miners' compensation. To date the DTI has settled 28,000 claims amounting to £137 million of compensation, of which the total sum recovered from miners is £96,500.

Secondary information

Type: Written question
Reference: 387 c501W; 62552
Session: 2001-02
Subjects: Compensation Coal Industrial diseases Mining Social security benefits Compensation Recovery Unit
Contains statistics: Yes
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