MP Jonathan Djanogly, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice, has confirmed to Parliament that the new Government will not seek to overturn the House of Lords’ decision that asymptomatic pleural plaques were not compensatable. He also confirmed that the Government would “proceed with the implementation of the previously announced limited extra-statutory scheme to provide one-off payments to individuals who had begun, but not resolved, a legal claim for compensation for pleural plaques at the time of the House of Lords judgment.” As previously reported here, these payments, originally announced by Jack Straw earlier this year, allow for a one off payment of £5,000 to qualifying claimants. Mr Djanogly explained that the Government was hoping to begin making these payments by the end of June.