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To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what the administrative cost of the coal section of the Compensation Recovery Unit was in 2001. - Includes figures.

Asked by

Adam Price (Plaid Cymru)

Answering body

Department for Work and Pensions

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

8 July 2002

Reference

388 c758W;388 c762W; 62553

House

House of Commons

Dept of Trade and Industry

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.

Asked by

Adam Price (Plaid Cymru)

Answering body

Department of Trade and Industry

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

20 June 2002

Reference

387 c501W; 62552

House

House of Commons

Dept of Social Security

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what percentage of the compensation package for sick miners the Compensation Recovery Unit expects to (a) deduct and (b) retain. - Inc figures.

Asked by

Lord Wigley (Plaid Cymru)

Answering body

Department of Social Security

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

30 November 2000

Reference

357 c860-1W; 140448

House

House of Commons

Dept of Social Security

To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, what plans he has to apply the Social Security Recovery of Benefits Act 1997 to compensation awards made to ex-miners with serious respiratory disease under the handling agreement on compensation principles signed by the DTI on 24th September 1999; and if...

Asked by

Jim Cousins (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Social Security

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

16 February 2000

For answer on

29 February 2000

Answered on

29 February 2000

Mr. Cousins: To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what plans he has to apply the Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) Act 1997 to compensation awards made to ex-miners with serious respiratory disease under the handling agreement on compensation principles signed by the DTI on 24 September 1999; and if he will estimate the numbers of likely claimants subject to such recovery in each region and nation of the United Kingdom. [111347] Mr. Bayley: The provisions of the Social Security Recovery of Benefits Act 1997 will apply to miners in the same way as they do for other victims of accident, injury or disease. The compensation recovery scheme is intended to ensure that people do not receive double compensation for the same need. Compensation paid in respect of loss of past earnings, cost of past care or loss of past mobility is therefore reduced to take account of all benefits paid for the same purpose, but only for a maximum period of five years from the date of claim to benefit in respect of the disease. Whether miners see a reduction in the amount of compensation they actually receive, therefore, will depend on the make-up of their compensation payment. However, compensation awarded to miners in respect of pain and suffering will be paid at the full amount awarded under the terms of the handling agreement. The information on likely claimants subject to benefit recovery is not available in the form requested. The claims handlers IRISC have estimated a total of 150,000 claims under the handling agreement, distributed as follows: England--97,500 Wales--40,500 Scotland--12,000. Not all of these claims will be subject to benefit recovery.

Date

29 February 2000

Reference

111347; 345 c234-5W

House

House of Commons

Dept of Social Security

To comment on the circumstances in which the Compensation Recovery Unit will take money away from asbestosis victims who have successfully pursued their claims in the civil courts; in what circumstances the mining industry and other industries are liable to compensation recovery unit deductions where victims of industrial disease have...

Asked by

Tony Worthington (Labour)

Answering body

Department of Social Security

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

21 June 1994

Reference

245 c147W

House

House of Commons

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