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Plans to compensate former Slate Workers for the disabling effects of dust inhalation have fallen into disarray.

The former Labour Government proposed the plan of  a compensation fund to alleviate the suffering of former slate workers affected by pneumoconiosis which is an industrial disease caused by the breathing in of dust usually in mines.

Campaigners for the Slate Miner’s have had enormous difficulties pursuing any compensation claim due to the fact that that the vast majority of the companies employing the miners have ceased to exist. To help combat this problem the former Labour administration had suggested the setting up of an agency to track down insurers of former slate quarry firms.

Unfortunately the setting up of these Government bodies was interrupted by the General Election of May 2010, and could hamper the campaigns claim for compensation.

Former Aberconwy MP, Betty Williams, whose father died as a result of the effects of slate dust, said “What bothers me now and worries me deeply, is that the present Conservative-Lib Dem coalition government are talking about getting rid of non-governmental organisations - they might not even consider the proposals.

“They might not even consider the setting up of these two bodies, which would help the people that we have been fighting for for many years.”

The Department of Work and Pensions have said they will respond to the previous government’s proposals “in due course”.