The Department for Business, Innovation & Skills have re-opened the Trawlermens Compensation Scheme. The scheme is now open for applications until 30 April 2010. Please contact my consituency office on johnsona@parliament.uk with your address if you would like to be sent an application form. Or alternatively, call the Trawlermen Helpline on 0845 604 3477 where [...]
Continue reading...15. April 2009
To download electronic versions of Alan Johnson’s Spring Parliamentary Reports, please use the below links: Newsletter for West Hull Newsletter for Hessle
Continue reading...17. November 2008
Many of you will know how seriously I take the unfair treatment of Hull’s trawlermen. From my very first speech in the House of Commons as an MP, I have been working hard to ensure that the trawlermen get a fair deal. I fought hard to win the men compensation for having their livelihoods taken away. Although [...]
Continue reading...1. January 2007
I began investigating this matter when some of the ex-trawlermen’s representatives in hull suggested to me that there might be around 100 people who had yet to receive payment from what was a compulsory contribution to the Humber Fishermen’s pension scheme, which commenced in april 1961 and was wound up with the collapse of the [...]
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14. August 2009
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