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PLEURAL PLAQUES PROTEST 28 OCTOBER 2009

EDM (Early Day Motion) 2094: tabled on 19 October 2009

Tabled in the 2008-09 session.

This motion has been signed by 10 Members. It has not yet had any amendments submitted. The tabling Member has subsequently withdrawn this motion.

As this motion is using historical data, we may not have the record of the original ordering, in which case signatories are listed alphabetically.

This motion has subsequently been withdrawn by the tabling Member.

Motion text

That this House is aware that asbestos victims around the country were affronted by the 2007 Law Lords' judgement that people suffering with pleural plaques should no longer be compensated and notes that on 28 October 2009 there will be a combined Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians, Unite, Unison, TUC and Asbestos Groups' lobby of Parliament to urge the Secretary of State for Justice to restore the rights of victims to seek compensation in the courts.