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Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations 2008

I am grateful to my noble friend for handling my query. He may know that the nation first took an interest with urgency in the problem of asbestosis when it became clear in the late 1960s that a workforce in a factory in Hebden Bridge literally played snowballs, as it were, with blue asbestos. It was from thereon that the tragedy that is now unfolding had its origins, in part at least. That is why I wished to pay tribute to the late Lord Harold Walker, because I saw the passion and insight with which he made his case. I also saw Ministers for the Administration of the day responding as well as they could.