Icelandic-Water Trawlermen Compensation Scheme
The Parliamentary Ombudsman's report on her investigation into the Icelandic-Water Trawlermen Compensation Scheme 2009 found maladministration by BIS. She has recommended that BIS apologise and make a consolatory payment of £1000 to all applicants to the 2009 scheme except:
- new claimants to the 2009 scheme who did not provide information relating to Icelandic waters fishing when the Department requested that they do so; or
- where fishing in Icelandic waters had finished before 1 January 1974; or
- the £20,000 maximum had been paid under earlier schemes; or
- claimants were personal representatives or executors of a deceased former trawlermen who did not provide evidence required by the Department of their status (for example a Letter of Administration or a Grant of Probate).
Documents
Background
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills launched the new Icelandic-Water Trawlermen Compensation Scheme on 31 July 2009. The scheme was for former trawlermen who fished in Icelandic waters and lost their livelihoods during the Cod Wars of the 1970s.
The Scheme is now closed for applications.
Copies of the key documents can be viewed at:
