Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many people have put in claims to the Coal Workers Pneumoconiosis Compensation Scheme in (a) England, (b) Yorkshire, (c) the borough of Rotherham and (d) Rother Valley constituency in the last calendar year.

A breakdown of claims received under the Coal Workers Pneumoconiosis Compensation Scheme by area requested during the last full calendar year (2019) are set out below:

(a) 132 (England)

(b) 41 (Yorkshire)

(c) 16 (Borough of Rotherham)

(d) 3 (Rother Valley Constituency)

For information:

• The address of the claimant has been used (as opposed to using the last known postcode of a deceased miner) to define the origin of each claim.
• ‘The Borough of Rotherham’ has been taken as being postcode districts S60-S63, S65 and S66.
• ‘Rother Valley Constituency’ was ascertained using https://members.parliament.uk/constituencies/.