MINERS' PENSIONS AND FUEL ENTITLEMENT
- Session: 2013-14
- Date tabled: 16.07.2013
- Primary sponsor:
- Sponsors:
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.