The Queensland government will invest $25 million over two years in a bid to better protect the state's coal workers from black lung disease.

Mines Minister Anthony Lynham has finally responded to a parliamentary report into the disease, officially known as pneumoconiosis, four months after it was tabled.

Mines Minister Anthony Lynham said the funding would go towards improving the health and safety of coal workers. Credit:Michelle Smith

Dr Lynham said the government supported all 68 recommendations made by the Coal Workers' Pneumoconiosis Select Committee inquiry, which was launched following the re-emergence of the disease.

"The Palaszczuk government's focus has always been to eradicate this insidious disease that does not belong in the 21st century," he said in a statement on Friday.