Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Jim Hood (Labour), on Wednesday, 16 December 1992, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 67 members in total.

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SCOTTISH MINERS WALK TO LONDON

That this House congratulates the Scottish miners who are walking to London in protest at the Government's announcement on 13th October to run down the mining industry and close 31 pits; notes that they have had fantastic support from millions of people as they have travelled through all the mining coalfields; and calls on the Prime Minister to acknowledge the case for coal, invest ??500 million, half the amount he intended spending on redundancy payments to miners, and provide a future for the British coal industry that would allow it to export 20 million tonnes into the EEC and improve the balance of trade deficit by ??1.6 billion.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

1101 

Session

1992-93

Subjects

Investment Protest Redundancy Scotland

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk