ALLEGATIONS BY ASBESTOS INSTITUTE AGAINST FERNANDO GIANNASI

Early day motion 33, tabled 26 June 2001 by Michael Clapham (Labour). Signed by 59 members.

That this House is most concerned to learn that the Asbestos Institute of Canada, an organisation that promotes the Canadian asbestos indutry that exports 99.5 per cent. of its production, should write to the Brazilian Minister of Labour alleging that anti-asbestos campaigners are motivated by a commercial interest in its substitution, and specifically denouncing the work of Fernando Giannasi, a Brazilian labour inspector who has given evidence world wide to trade unions and community groups campaigning for an asbestos ban.

Signatures by party: Labour 48, Liberal Democrat 6, Labour/Co-operative 3, Conservative 1, UUP 1.