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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 3 March 2025
Debate
Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations 2025Contribution
Lastly, these two instruments spring from the historic Employment Protection and Health and Safety at Work Etc. Acts legislated by the then Secretary of State for Employment Michael Foot in the mid-1970s. The Wilson and Callaghan Governments of that time were without a workable, practical majority; it was always touch and go. However, we now have a Health and Safety Executive—a direct consequence of those historic Acts. I had the honour of serving in those three Administrations for Harold Wilson and James Callaghan, each to become a Lord in this House.
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