MINERS' PENSIONS AND FUEL ENTITLEMENT

Early day motion 428, tabled 16 July 2013 by Lord Mann (Labour). Signed by 58 members.

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.

Signatures by party: Labour 45, Liberal Democrat 3, Plaid Cymru 3, Social Democratic and Labour Party 3, Alliance 1, Conservative 1, DUP 1, Independent 1.