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Llanerch Colliery Disaster, February 6, 1890

EDM number 442 in 1989-90, proposed by Paul Murphy on 05/02/1990.

That this House notes that 6th February 1990 commemorates the one hundredth anniversary of the explosion at the Llanerch Colliery, Abersychan, Pontypool, when 175 men and boys lost their lives; and takes this opportunity to pay tribute to those thousands of people who have sacrificed their lives in the coal-mining industry in this country.

This motion has been signed by a total of 30 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Paul Murphy05/02/1990TorfaenProposed
Kim Howells05/02/1990PontypriddSigned
Ernie Ross06/02/1990Dundee WestSigned
Dennis Skinner06/02/1990BolsoverSigned
Roy Hughes06/02/1990Newport EastSigned
John McAllion06/02/1990Dundee EastSigned
William McKelvey06/02/1990Kilmarnock & LoudounSigned
John Cummings06/02/1990EasingtonSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe06/02/1990LeighSigned
Kevin Barron06/02/1990Rother ValleySigned
Alan Williams06/02/1990Swansea WestSigned
Harry Barnes07/02/1990North East DerbyshireSigned
Jimmy Dunnachie07/02/1990Glasgow, PollokSigned
Alan Meale07/02/1990MansfieldSigned
Geoffrey Lofthouse07/02/1990Pontefract & CastlefordSigned
David Clelland07/02/1990Tyne BridgeSigned
Bill Michie08/02/1990Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Ron Davies08/02/1990CaerphillySigned
Win Griffiths08/02/1990BridgendSigned
Jack Thompson13/02/1990WansbeckSigned
Geraint Howells14/02/1990Ceredigion and Pembroke NorthSigned
Jeremy Corbyn14/02/1990Islington NorthSigned
Ian Bruce14/02/1990South DorsetSigned
Roland Boyes14/02/1990Houghton and WashingtonSigned
Eric Illsley14/02/1990Barnsley CentralSigned
David Hinchliffe14/02/1990WakefieldSigned
Willie Ross15/02/1990East LondonderrySigned
Donald Anderson15/02/1990Swansea EastSigned
Audrey Wise19/02/1990PrestonSigned
Tommy Graham20/02/1990Renfrew West and InverclydeSigned

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