Compensation Bill [Lords]

I agree with the hon. Gentleman about claims farmers, but I know that he is a member of the National Union of Mineworkers. It has been reported that a firm of solicitors acting for the NUM"““advised miners to sign an agreement letting the NUM ‘fund’ their legal claims—for chronic chest diseases and a crippling hand condition…in return for paying part of their eventual compensation to the union.""The miners were not told that in reality the Government, not the NUM, was paying the legal costs””." How can the hon. Gentleman justify not regulating a union that behaves like that? It is disgraceful.