Ministers have decided against overturning a legal ruling affecting compensation payouts to workers suffering from an asbestos-related disease.

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The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has unveiled plans to help people with serious industrial diseases track down their employers’ insurance records with the launch of a new database.

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A decision on whether to compensate pleural plaques sufferers in England and Wales is not far off, a minister has said during a reading of a Bill on the issue.

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Moves to overturn a Law Lords ruling on the issue of compensation for sufferers of an industrial lung disease have returned to the Commons.

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A bid to compensate and support victims of what is widely called the worst treatment disaster in the history of the NHS cleared the Lords.

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