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Coalfields Task Force Report

EDM number 232 in 1998-99, proposed by Bill Etherington on 21/01/1999.

That this House welcomes the Coalfields Taskforce report Making the Difference and its acknowledgement that the reinstatement of miners sacked during the 1984-85 strike has varied from location to location; notes that the taskforce has acknowledged that there is a large surplus in the miners' pension funds and thus specifically recommends that the Government should review the pension entitlement of those miners not reinstated after the strike; and calls upon the Government to consider acting upon the recommendation of the taskforce and to use the pension fund surplus to help those sacked miners who between March 1985 and January 1997 were prevented from working in the mining industry by agreeing to their 'technical reinstatement' so that they may receive their due pension contributions.

This motion has been signed by a total of 65 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Bill Etherington21/01/1999Sunderland NorthLabourProposed
Dennis Skinner21/01/1999BolsoverLabourSigned
Jimmy Wray21/01/1999Glasgow, BailliestonLabourSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe21/01/1999LeighLabourSigned
Edward O'Hara21/01/1999Knowsley SouthLabourSigned
Denis Murphy21/01/1999WansbeckLabourSigned
Eric Clarke21/01/1999MidlothianLabourSigned
Lynne Jones25/01/1999Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
John Austin25/01/1999Erith & ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Phil Sawford26/01/1999KetteringLabourSigned
Alasdair Morgan26/01/1999Galloway & Upper NithsdaleScottish National PartySigned
Colin Burgon26/01/1999ElmetLabourSigned
John Cummings26/01/1999EasingtonLabourSigned
Andrew Dismore26/01/1999HendonLabourSigned
Jim Dobbin26/01/1999Heywood & MiddletonLabour Co-operativeSigned
Ian Gibson26/01/1999Norwich NorthLabourSigned
Norman Godman26/01/1999Greenock & InverclydeLabourSigned
Alan Simpson27/01/1999Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Audrey Wise27/01/1999PrestonLabourSigned
Harry Cohen27/01/1999Leyton & WansteadLabourSigned
Bill Michie27/01/1999Sheffield, HeeleyLabourSigned
Nigel Jones27/01/1999CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Ernie Ross27/01/1999Dundee WestLabourSigned
Ronnie Campbell28/01/1999Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Stephen Hepburn01/02/1999JarrowLabourSigned
Brian Iddon01/02/1999Bolton South EastLabourSigned
Eric Illsley03/02/1999Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Ann Clwyd03/02/1999Cynon ValleyLabourSigned
Janet Dean03/02/1999BurtonLabourSigned
Jim Fitzpatrick03/02/1999Poplar & Canning TownLabourSigned
George Galloway03/02/1999Glasgow, KelvinLabourSigned
Jon Trickett03/02/1999HemsworthLabourSigned
Charlotte Atkins04/02/1999Staffordshire MoorlandsLabourSigned
Gerry Steinberg04/02/1999Durham, City ofLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins08/02/1999Luton NorthLabourSigned
Rudi Vis08/02/1999Finchley & Golders GreenLabourSigned
Austin Mitchell08/02/1999Great GrimsbyLabourSigned
Fraser Kemp08/02/1999Houghton & Washington EastLabourSigned
Joan Walley09/02/1999Stoke-on-Trent NorthLabourSigned
Michael Clapham10/02/1999Barnsley West & PenistoneLabourSigned
Roger Berry10/02/1999KingswoodLabourSigned
Oona King11/02/1999Bethnal Green & BowLabourSigned
David Crausby11/02/1999Bolton North EastLabourSigned
Maria Eagle11/02/1999Liverpool, GarstonLabourSigned
Jeff Ennis11/02/1999Barnsley East & MexboroughLabourSigned
Ann Cryer15/02/1999KeighleyLabourSigned
Jim Cunningham16/02/1999Coventry SouthLabourSigned
Keith Darvill16/02/1999UpminsterLabourSigned
Julia Drown16/02/1999South SwindonLabourSigned
Kevin McNamara22/02/1999Kingston upon Hull NorthLabourSigned
Iain Coleman22/02/1999Hammersmith & FulhamLabourSigned
Fabian Hamilton23/02/1999Leeds North EastLabourSigned
Llin Golding25/02/1999Newcastle-under-LymeLabourSigned
John Cryer01/03/1999HornchurchLabourSigned
Gwyn Prosser02/03/1999DoverLabourSigned
Roger Godsiff02/03/1999Birmingham, Sparkbrook & Small HeathLabourSigned
Jenny Jones03/03/1999Wolverhampton South WestLabourSigned
Geoffrey Robinson05/03/1999Coventry North WestLabourSigned
John McDonnell05/03/1999Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
Dafydd Wigley15/03/1999CaernarfonPlaid CymruSigned
Paul Flynn13/04/1999Newport WestLabourSigned
Debra Shipley14/04/1999StourbridgeLabourSigned
Ken Livingstone05/05/1999Brent EastLabourSigned
Terry Davis21/07/1999Birmingham, Hodge HillLabourSigned
Angela Smith19/10/1999BasildonLabour Co-operativeSigned

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