Pit Closures

EDM number 610 in 1992-93, proposed by Dennis Skinner on 20/10/1992.

That this House deplores the callous way the Government announced the closure of 31 deep mines with the loss of 31,000 pit jobs and with a knock on to the economy of more than 70,000 additional job losses; considers the statement by the President of the Board of Trade to the House on Monday 19th October fails to address national concern; and calls for a moratorium on all colliery closures, negotiations on new coal contracts to be held in abeyance, a report from the Regulator on whether the national interest is served by the generators' dash for more costly gas fired capacity and a Select Committee report on the most efficient mix of Britain's indigenous energy resources.

This motion has been signed by a total of 127 MPs.