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registered interest false remove filter
date less than 2015-01-06more like thismore than 2015-01-06
answering body
Department for Work and Pensions more like this
answering dept id 29 more like this
answering dept short name Work and Pensions more like this
answering dept sort name Work and Pensions more like this
hansard heading Mesothelioma: Compensation more like this
house id 1 more like this
legislature
25259
pref label House of Commons more like this
question text To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, pursuant to the Answer of 16 December 2014 to Question 217981, if he will revise the Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment Scheme fund so that people who were diagnosed with diffuse mesothelioma before 25 July 2012, or eligible dependents of such people where that eligible person has died, also receive the support provided to eligible people who were diagnosed after that date. more like this
tabling member constituency Na h-Eileanan an Iar more like this
tabling member printed
Mr Angus Brendan MacNeil more like this
uin 219877 more like this
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is ministerial correction false more like this
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answer text <p /> <p>The eligibility date was set as 25th July 2012 as this was the date that the Government announced it would legislate for a payment scheme, thereby creating a reasonable expectation that eligible people diagnosed with mesothelioma on or after that date would receive a payment.</p><p> </p><p>If there was no start date, and the scheme paid people diagnosed in the past, the costs of the scheme would be prohibitively expensive.</p> more like this
answering member constituency Forest of Dean more like this
answering member printed Mr Mark Harper more like this
question first answered
less than 2015-01-13T15:52:29.467Zmore like thismore than 2015-01-13T15:52:29.467Z
answering member
1520
label Biography information for Mr Mark Harper more like this
tabling member
1546
label Biography information for Angus Brendan MacNeil more like this