Mesothelioma Bill [Lords]

Debate between Jim Sheridan and Mark Lazarowicz

Tuesday 7th January 2014 Commons Chamber

[Jim Sheridan]

My hon. Friend and neighbour is absolutely right. He, like me and many people who worked in the industrial sector, whether it be in the shipyards, in the mines or wherever, live with the constant fear that a cough could develop into something more worrying like mesothelioma. In the industrial sector, regardless of the part of the country we come from, that is something we have to live with on a daily basis.

[Mark Lazarowicz (Edinburgh North and Leith) (Lab/Co-op)]

In my constituency the kinds of activities that tended to provoke this condition, such as dock-related activities, declined some time ago. That was not, however, many decades ago, so this is still an issue for people in my constituency. Does my hon. Friend agree that months, let alone two years—