Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Lord Mann (Labour), on Tuesday, 16 July 2013, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 58 members in total.

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MINERS' PENSIONS AND FUEL ENTITLEMENT

That this House notes that on 9 July 2013 UK Coal announced that industry-wide pension funds would enter into the Pension Protection Fund (PPF); understands that pensions accrued after privatisation of British Coal in 1994 will be administered by the PPF; expresses dismay at plans to reduce these pensions by 10 per cent; further notes with alarm the removal of the entitlement of miners and widows to receive a fuel or cash allowance; considers the weak inflation protection within the PPF to be a long-term threat to the well-being of miners and their families; and calls on the Government to reverse these cuts and to support mining villages and towns with full pensions and fuel rights.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

428 

Session

2013-14

Other sponsors

John Healey

Andrew George

Bob Russell

Virendra Sharma

Jim Shannon

Subjects

Coal Workplace pensions Mining

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk