Written question asked by Austin Mitchell (Labour) on Tuesday, 26 February 2002, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 5 March 2002. It was answered by Nigel Griffiths (Labour) on Tuesday, 5 March 2002 on behalf of the Department of Trade and Industry.

Dept of Trade and Industry

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, how many claims for compensation for the loss of Icelandic fishing jobs have been submitted from (a) Fleetwood, (b) Grimsby and (c) Hull; how many from each port have (i) been paid, (ii) gone to appeal and (iii) gone to arbitration; and how many for each port have been reported. - Includes table. and figures.

Answer: Mr. Austin Mitchell: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many claims for compensation for the loss of Icelandic fishing jobs have been submitted from (a) Fleetwood, (b) Grimsby and (c) Hull; how many from each port have (i) been paid, (ii) gone to appeal and (iii) gone to arbitration; and how many for each port have been reported. [38484] Nigel Griffiths: The table shows the available information. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Port Paid Compensation Requests to review the decision Appeals to the Independent Adjudicator Hull 1,489 444 48 Grimsby/Cleethorpes 701 298 56 Fleetwood/Blackpool 312 135 20 Aberdeen 158 205 13 Other 889 122 13 Total 3,549 1,204 150 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Excluding duplicates, a total of 7,740 claims have been made. I regret that there is no breakdown by port of this figure.

Secondary information

Type: Written question
Reference: 38484; 381 c152W
Session: 2001-02
Subjects: Compensation Appeals Arbitration Fisheries Kingston upon Hull Payments Ports Redundancy Grimsby Iceland Fleetwood
Contains statistics: Yes
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