The mother of a student who died on his first day as a hired hand at Shoreham Harbour is taking her safety campaign to Westminster.

Simon Jones was 24 when his head was crushed by a mechanical grab in the hold of a ship in April 1998.

The Sussex University student was on a gap year and had been taken on by Dutch-registered firm Euromin through an employment agency.

After years of fighting by his parents Anne and Chris and other members of the Simon Jones Memorial Campaign, Euromin was prosecuted at the Old Bailey.

Both the firm and director Richard Martell were cleared of manslaughter but the firm was fined £50,000 with £20,000 costs for serious health and safety breaches.

Mrs Jones will address the House of Commons' work and pensions committee on behalf of the memorial campaign.

The committee is looking into the work of the Health and Safety Executive.

Mrs Jones, from Oxfordshire, will tell MPs about the failure of any government body to regulate the work of employment agencies.

Some firms took large amounts of money from casual workers' pay packets without ensuring they worked in safe conditions.