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Success Of Tower Colliery

EDM number 196 in 1995-96, proposed by Ann Clwyd on 11/12/1995.

That this House applauds the miners of Tower Colliery in the Cynon Valley for their magnificent achievement in making a pretax profit of ú3.5 million in their first year of operation; records that the miners invested ú8,000 each to buy the pit and that they will receive a ú500 interim dividend before Christmas, followed in the New Year by a ú23 a week pay rise, and a 100 per cent. sickness pay scheme is to be set up; notes that production targets set by the miners themselves have been exceeded and that over ú1 million is to be reinvested in the pit; observes that British Coal and the Government said that they were closing the pit because there was no market for the coal, but that the company has found markets at home and abroad; calls on the Government to recognise the mistake they made in shutting the pit; and believes Tower is a fine example of a worker's co-operative which will provide an inspiration to many others.

This motion has been signed by a total of 107 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Ann Clwyd11/12/1995Cynon ValleyProposed
David Hanson11/12/1995DelynSigned
Mike O'Brien11/12/1995North WarwickshireSigned
Peter Pike11/12/1995BurnleySigned
Ian Pearson11/12/1995Dudley WestSigned
Gordon Prentice11/12/1995PendleSigned
Ken Purchase11/12/1995Wolverhampton North EastSigned
John Reid11/12/1995Motherwell NorthSigned
Joan Ruddock11/12/1995Lewisham, DeptfordSigned
Alan Simpson11/12/1995Nottingham SouthSigned
Llew Smith11/12/1995Blaenau GwentSigned
Rachel Squire11/12/1995Dunfermline WestSigned
George Howarth11/12/1995Knowsley NorthSigned
Kim Howells11/12/1995PontypriddSigned
Kevin Hughes11/12/1995Doncaster NorthSigned
David Jamieson11/12/1995Plymouth, DevonportSigned
Jon Owen Jones11/12/1995Cardiff CentralSigned
Lynne Jones11/12/1995Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
Andrew MacKinlay11/12/1995ThurrockSigned
Alice Mahon11/12/1995HalifaxSigned
Eric Martlew11/12/1995CarlisleSigned
John Maxton11/12/1995Glasgow, CathcartSigned
John McAllion11/12/1995Dundee EastSigned
William McKelvey11/12/1995Kilmarnock & LoudounSigned
Kevin McNamara11/12/1995Kingston upon Hull NorthSigned
Alan Meale11/12/1995MansfieldSigned
Alun Michael11/12/1995Cardiff South & PenarthSigned
Bill Michie11/12/1995Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Rhodri Morgan11/12/1995Cardiff WestSigned
Chris Mullin11/12/1995Sunderland SouthSigned
Martin O'Neill11/12/1995ClackmannanSigned
Stan Orme11/12/1995Salford EastSigned
Roland Boyes11/12/1995Houghton and WashingtonSigned
Dale Campbell-Savours11/12/1995WorkingtonSigned
Michael Clapham11/12/1995Barnsley West & PenistoneSigned
Eric Clarke11/12/1995MidlothianSigned
David Clelland11/12/1995Tyne BridgeSigned
Harry Cohen11/12/1995LeytonSigned
Michael Connarty11/12/1995Falkirk EastSigned
Frank Cook11/12/1995Stockton NorthSigned
Jeremy Corbyn11/12/1995Islington NorthSigned
Jean Corston11/12/1995Bristol EastSigned
Angela Eagle11/12/1995WallaseySigned
Paul Flynn11/12/1995Newport WestSigned
George Foulkes11/12/1995Carrick, Cumnock and Doon ValleySigned
George Galloway11/12/1995Glasgow HillheadSigned
Mike Gapes11/12/1995Ilford SouthSigned
Neil Gerrard11/12/1995WalthamstowSigned
John Gilbert11/12/1995Dudley EastSigned
Llin Golding11/12/1995Newcastle-under-LymeSigned
Tommy Graham11/12/1995Renfrew West and InverclydeSigned
Irene Adams11/12/1995Paisley NorthSigned
Nick Ainger11/12/1995PembrokeSigned
Win Griffiths11/12/1995BridgendSigned
Peter Hain11/12/1995NeathSigned
Donald Anderson11/12/1995Swansea EastSigned
Hilary Armstrong11/12/1995North West DurhamSigned
Tony Banks11/12/1995Newham North WestSigned
John Battle11/12/1995Leeds WestSigned
Gerry Bermingham11/12/1995St Helens SouthSigned
Gerry Sutcliffe11/12/1995Bradford SouthSigned
Dennis Turner11/12/1995Wolverhampton South EastSigned
Joan Walley11/12/1995Stoke-on-Trent NorthSigned
Alan Wynne Williams11/12/1995CarmarthenSigned
Audrey Wise11/12/1995PrestonSigned
James Wray11/12/1995Glasgow ProvanSigned
Terry Rooney12/12/1995Bradford NorthSigned
Ernie Ross12/12/1995Dundee WestSigned
Roy Hughes12/12/1995Newport EastSigned
Elfyn Llwyd12/12/1995Meirionnydd Nant ConwySigned
Keith Bradley12/12/1995Manchester, WithingtonSigned
James Callaghan12/12/1995Heywood & MiddletonSigned
Malcolm Chisholm12/12/1995Edinburgh LeithSigned
John Cummings12/12/1995EasingtonSigned
John Evans12/12/1995St Helens NorthSigned
Norman Godman12/12/1995Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
Harry Barnes12/12/1995North East DerbyshireSigned
Paddy Tipping12/12/1995SherwoodSigned
Dafydd Wigley12/12/1995CaernarfonSigned
Dennis Skinner13/12/1995BolsoverSigned
Peter Hardy13/12/1995WentworthSigned
John Heppell13/12/1995Nottingham EastSigned
Alan Howarth13/12/1995Stratford-on-AvonSigned
Eric Illsley13/12/1995Barnsley CentralSigned
Ken Livingstone13/12/1995Brent EastSigned
Calum MacDonald13/12/1995Na h-Eileanan an IarSigned
Richard Burden13/12/1995Birmingham, NorthfieldSigned
John Gunnell13/12/1995Leeds South and MorleySigned
Mike Hall13/12/1995Warrington SouthSigned
Hugh Bayley13/12/1995York, City ofSigned
Colin Pickthall14/12/1995West LancashireSigned
Denis MacShane14/12/1995RotherhamSigned
Ieuan Wyn Jones18/12/1995Ynys MSigned
Martyn Jones19/12/1995Clwyd South WestSigned
Eddie Loyden19/12/1995Liverpool, GarstonSigned
David Marshall19/12/1995Glasgow, ShettlestonSigned
Tom Cox19/12/1995TootingSigned
Nicholas Winterton20/12/1995MacclesfieldSigned
Gerry Steinberg09/01/1996Durham, City ofSigned
Edward O'Hara10/01/1996Knowsley SouthSigned
Don Touhig10/01/1996IslwynSigned
Raymond Powell15/01/1996OgmoreSigned
Bill Etherington23/01/1996Sunderland NorthSigned
Nigel Jones25/01/1996CheltenhamSigned
Ian McCartney25/01/1996MakerfieldSigned
Barry Sheerman30/01/1996HuddersfieldSigned
Robert Wareing05/02/1996Liverpool, West DerbySigned

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