Pneumoconiosis: Compensation
(asked on 12th February 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask Her Majesty's Government, under the provisions of the Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers' Compensation) Act 1979, how many new applications for compensation were made in the last year for which figures are available; what was the corresponding number of payments that were made; and what was the total cost of those payments.
The available information is shown in the table below.
IIDB 3.1 | Pneumoconiosis (Worker's Compensation) Act 1979 by type of claimant and payment, Oct 2018 – Sep 2019 | ||||||
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| Number of claims | Total Payments made £ |
| Number of claims | Total Payments made £ |
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2018 | October |
| 310 | 4,043,400 |
| 30 | 226,852 |
| November | 300 | 3,270,613 |
| 40 | 278,222 | |
| December | 210 | 2,756,460 |
| 20 | 177,240 | |
2019 | January |
| 300 | 3,686,361 |
| 30 | 221,249 |
| February |
| 240 | 2,724,420 |
| 20 | 139,378 |
| March |
| 290 | 3,471,191 |
| 30 | 242,787 |
| April |
| 240 | 3,348,735 |
| 30 | 217,586 |
| May |
| 250 | 3,435,557 |
| 10 | 91,024 |
| June |
| 260 | 3,321,152 |
| 20 | 157,177 |
| July |
| 270 | 3,651,931 |
| 30 | 206,222 |
| August |
| 210 | 3,119,361 |
| 30 | 217,707 |
| September | 220 | 3,046,575 |
| 20 | 180,725 | |
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Notes:
- Figures on claimants shown are rounded to the nearest 10.
- Figures show new claims for which an assessment has been completed.