Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 410open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2004
That this House is disappointed by the decision not to establish a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease scheme for the relatively small number of surface mine workers who did not work underground or worked underground for less than five years and who were involved in processing coal and exposed to a dusty environment covered by the 1974 Coal Miners' Pneumoconiosis Scheme; and calls on the Department for Trade and Industry to reconsider its decision.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 143open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 December 2000
That this House is determined to secure a no-fault compensation scheme for the victims of asbestos-related diseases to bring to an end the unreasonable situation in which victims have to run the gauntlet of adversarial and expensive litigation where legal costs can be out of all proportion to the modest damages awarded; considers that with good will on all sides, common ground could be found to enable a no-fault comprehensive asbestos compensation scheme to be established; and calls on Her Majesty's Government to facilitate employers, insurers, trades unions, lawyers and all other organisations concerned with the consequences of exposure to asbestos to work with urgency to devise an appropriate scheme, but should this not prove possible call for the introduction of a statutory no-fault compensation scheme.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 91open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2000
That this House is deeply disturbed to learn of the class action complaint filed in the USA courts, in respect of Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea, accusing London-based Rio Tinto, the mining conglomerate, that in operating its Panguna Copper Mine, the most productive in the world, it treated the indigenous people as inferior and expendable, through apartheid, racial discrimination and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, constituting gross violation of their human rights, that Rio Tinto destroyed Bougainville's forests, fauna and river systems, generating billions of tons of toxic waste, killing animal and plant life, turning vast, fertile areas into a toxic, barren wasteland, that Rio Tinto chemically defoliated, bulldozed and sluiced of an entire mountainside of rainforest and that Rio Tinto caused serious illness and death to the people; demands that Rio Tinto accept its responsibility to pay compensation; and urges Her Majesty's Government to institute a full public inquiry and to report back to this House.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 89open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2000
That this House is greatly concerned to learn that in a class action complaint filed in the USA courts, the London-based mining conglomerate, Rio Tinto, stands accused of having acted in concert with the Government and Military Forces of Papua New Guinea to force the re-opening of the Panguna Copper Mine on Bougainville Island, that the PNG Government contracted the London-based (British Virgin Islands-registered) Sandline International, a firm of mercenaries, to recapture Bougainville and restore Rio Tinto's mine, and that in 1997 Lt. Col. Tim Spicer of Sandline secured a $36 million PNG contract to recapture the mine with a mercenary force; notes that Sandline had shipped weapons to Sierra Leone in 1995, investigated by this House in the 'Arms for Africa' affair; and urges Her Majesty's Government to institute a full public inquiry into this disgraceful affair, and to report back to the House.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 88open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2000
That this House is gravely concerned by the fact that the London-based Rio Tinto, the world's largest mining conglomerate, has been accused in a USA Class Action of War Crimes against the indigenous people of Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea, that in order to force the re-opening of its Panguna Copper Mine, Rio Tinto encouraged or pressurised the PNG Government to take military action and to mount a naval blockade against its own people, that Rio Tinto provided vehicles and helicopters for military use, that Rio Tinto exhorted the PNG to 'Starve the Bastards out', that such actions were in breach of the Geneva Convention, the ensuing war crimes leading to the deaths of an estimated 15,000 civilians; and calls upon Her Majesty's Government to instigate a criminal investigation into those allegations and to report back to this House.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 992open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 July 2000
That this House notes with alarm recent incidents involving property damage and injury to the public and workers resulting from hose failures when dangerous liquids and gases are being transferred from tankers, and is aware that technology is now available to prevent the leakage of dangerous material from occurring if a hose pulls apart or a coupling breaks; and calls on the Government thoroughly to review existing regulations to ensure that the transportation of dangerous materials is undertaken using the best available flexible hose technology to ensure public protection.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 868open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 19 June 2000
That this House welcomes the Health and Safety Commission strategy statement recently launched by the Deputy Prime Minister which for the first time sets 10 year targets for reducing workplace illness by 20 per cent. and major injuries and fatalities by 10 per cent. drawing a line under the safety deregulation debate and accepting that UK workplaces need to be made safer; and in this context further welcomes the Government's commitment to legislate at the earliest opportunity for tougher penalties for health and safety offences and to assign health and safety responsibility to a named director of the company.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 822open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 June 2000
That this House welcomes the latest report from the TUC, Campaigning to Close the Gap, which marks the 30th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act, which heralded major changes in women's pay, but recognises that the pay gap remains unacceptably large, despite the Government's commitment to tackle inequality by measures such as the minimum wage, tax credits and a national child care strategy, with women in full-time work earning around 80p for every ú1 earned by a male in full-time work; and calls on Her Majesty's Government to take further positive action to end the continuing unfairness of unequal pay.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 697open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 May 2000
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Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 704open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 9 May 2000
That this House is gravely concerned to learn that the London-based Rio Tinto, the largest mining company in the world, has made a series of false statements to the effect that during its operation of the Capper Pass Tin Smelter in Hull, it had fully complied with all environmental, health and safety regulations; notes that there is incontrovertible evidence that the Health and Safety Executive had served a statutory improvement notice identifying contravention of sections 2(1) and 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Etc, Act 1974 and section 63 of the Factories Act 1961 and that the Health and Safety Executive had also served upon the company a major report identifying the extremely limited competence of safety management, and major breaches of the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 1989, the Control of Lead at Work Regulations 1980 and the Ionising Radiations Regulations 1985; further notes that there were repeated breaches of environmental regulations and statutory licences governing discharge of toxic substances into the River Humber; deplores the refusal of Rio Tinto to answer the specific allegations put to its Executive Chairman on 7th October 1999 concerning the promulgation of those false statements by senior executives of the company; and urges Her Majesty's Government to institute a full public inquiry and report back to this House.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 670open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 19 April 2000
That this House is appalled to learn that in 1998-99, 21 people aged under 25 years were killed at work and 3,845 were seriously injured; and believes there is a need to make young people aware of health and safety risks in preparation for work and that this can best be done by the Department for Education and Employment embedding health and safety teaching throughout the education system to create a culture that gets the message across to young people to protect them for the future.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 440open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 February 2000
That this House welcomes the first ever International RSI Awareness Day on Tuesday 29th February devoted to the prevention of the disease which affects about 200,000 sufferers per year and is caused by intensive keyboard work, checkout operations in supermarkets and work on conveyor belts.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 439open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 February 2000
That this House regrets to learn of the death of Sidney Dalton due to mesothelioma caused by exposure to asbestos whilst working at the former Blackburn Meadows Power Station; calls for a public inquiry into the high incidence of asbestos-related disease amongst former power industry workers; deplores the conduct of his employers Powergen plc in forcing former employees or their widows to take their cases for compensation to the High Court; and reminds the company that under the Electricity Act 1989 they were required to take over liabilities and not just the assets of the former Electricity Generating Board, and that accordingly they have a duty to compensate former works who have suffered asbestos-related disease.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 264open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 January 2000
That this House welcomes the Coalfield Communities Campaign report on the Miners Pension Funds and notes that every year the Treasury receives a multi-million pound windfall from the funds, which have an asset value in excess of £23 billion, under arrangements which were put in place by the Tory Government when the coal industry was privatised in 1994; and, in view of the modest risk that is now involved, asks Her Majesty's Government to adjust the division of the surpluses in a fairer way, leaving more for the 300,000 plus pensioners, 28,000 of whom receive less than £10 per week, and to plough back a larger proportion of what has been received into coalfield communities.