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PQ 5254C
Mr Robert Kilroy-Silk (Labour) (Ormskirk): To ask the Prime Minister how the financial arrangements of the next of kin of the Hong Kong Chinese sailors killed or wounded in the South Atlantic compare with those for (a): British servicemen and (h) merchant seamen.
REPLY
The lump sum compensation for the death or injury of Hong Kong
Chinese Royal Fleet Auxiliary personnel is the same as for UK merchant
seamen but no occupational pension will be provided since the
Hong Kong Chinese were not members of a pension scheme.
The lump
sum is greater than for Servicemen of junior rank, but with the
same proviso.
Hong Kong Chinese embarked on HM Ships to provide laundry
and similar services under contract were covered by private insurers
indemnified by MOD.
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