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<p>The asbestos-related personal injury claims for which the Department is responsible
are mainly historical liabilities that were assumed by the Department from various
bodies, including former nationalised industries, whose liabilities transferred to
the Department (as previously constituted) when those bodies ceased to exist.</p><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Based on available data, the number of claims for the years
in question are listed by category, and are as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>National</strong></p><p><strong>Dock
Labour Board</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>British</strong></p><p><strong>Shipbuilders<strong>[1]</strong></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>British
Shipbuilers Chester Street</strong><strong><strong>[2]</strong></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>British
Coal<strong>[3]</strong></strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Others<strong>[4]</strong></strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2003</strong></p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p>645</p></td><td><p>31</p></td><td><p>11</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2004</strong></p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p>854</p></td><td><p>37</p></td><td><p>103</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2005</strong></p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p>771</p></td><td><p>15</p></td><td><p>47</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2006</strong></p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p>214</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p> </p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2007</strong></p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p>119</p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>42</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2008</strong></p></td><td><p>115[5]</p></td><td><p>126</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>36</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2009</strong></p></td><td><p>44</p></td><td><p>168</p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td><td><p>45</p></td><td><p>133</p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p>47</p></td><td><p>124</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p>45</p></td><td><p>232</p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p>37</p></td><td><p>160</p></td><td><p>4</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p>6</p></td><td><p>33</p></td><td><p>1</p></td><td><p>
</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>The footnotes below provide
further information on these numbers.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>
</p><p> </p><br /><p>[1]British Shipbuilders was a separate legal entity, with BIS,
as formerly constituted, as its sponsor department. British Shipbuilders was wound
up in March 2013. Since then responsibility for these claims has passed to BIS.</p><p>[2]BIS
is responsible for compensation claims made against former British Shipbuilders' companies
that were sold with their liabilities during privatisation, and which subsequently
became insolvent, as did their insurer, Chester Street Insurance Holdings Ltd. The
Financial Services Compensation Scheme does not compensate former employees in respect
of periods of employment with nationalised industries (such as British Shipbuilders)
and the Department (the then DTI) assumed liability for this compensation by way of
a Minute to Parliament in 2003.</p><p>[3] BIS does not hold complete figures for asbestos
claims for British Coal for calendar years 2003, 2005 and 2006. British Coal liabilities
transferred to the Department for Energy & Climate Change (DECC) on its creation
in October 2008, so no figures have been included after that date.</p><p>[4]The claims
listed in the column headed “Others” are claims for which the Department is responsible
as the successor to partner organisations and executive agencies which no longer exist.</p><p>[5]The
figure of 115 NDLB claims for 2008 is the complete number for the years 2006 – 2008
as the figures for these years have been aggregated.</p>
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