Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, whether she plans to introduce proposals to up-rate by the rate of inflation payments made by the Diffuse Mesothelioma Payment Scheme in the 2018-19 financial year.
The 2008 Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payment Scheme will be uprated from 1st April 2018. This will be in line with the September CPI rate. The statutory instruments to make this change were laid in Parliament on 15th January 2018.