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Ferrybridge B

EDM number 745 in 1990-91, proposed by Geoffrey Lofthouse on 24/04/1991.

That this House is appalled at the announcement of the closure of Ferrybridge B coal-fired power station in the constituency of Pontefract and Castleford, with the loss of more than 400 jobs; notes that this is in line with Government policy to run down the coal industry in preparation for privatisation; believes it will be the most ironic of outcomes of the United Kingdom's short-term culture if the country's largest and longest-life fuel resource were allowed to fade away at the very moment when technology relieves coal of its environmental criticisms and makes it once again incontrovertibly the most economic choice for new power plant; and calls on the Prime Minister to reverse the unemployment-creating policies that have brought so much misery to thousands of families in the area covered by Wakefield Metropolitan District Council and throughout the country since 1984.

This motion has been signed by a total of 32 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Geoffrey Lofthouse24/04/1991Pontefract & CastlefordProposed
David Hinchliffe24/04/1991WakefieldSigned
Bill O'Brien24/04/1991NormantonSigned
Kevin Barron24/04/1991Rother ValleySigned
Dennis Skinner25/04/1991BolsoverSigned
Chris Smith25/04/1991Islington South & FinsburySigned
Bill Michie25/04/1991Sheffield, HeeleySigned
David Clelland25/04/1991Tyne BridgeSigned
Bob Cryer25/04/1991Bradford SouthSigned
Harry Barnes25/04/1991North East DerbyshireSigned
Terry Lewis26/04/1991WorsleySigned
Win Griffiths26/04/1991BridgendSigned
John Cummings29/04/1991EasingtonSigned
Dennis Turner29/04/1991Wolverhampton South EastSigned
Ken Livingstone29/04/1991Brent EastSigned
Martin Redmond29/04/1991Don ValleySigned
Robert Parry29/04/1991Liverpool, RiversideSigned
Peter Hardy29/04/1991WentworthSigned
James Wray30/04/1991Glasgow ProvanSigned
John Evans30/04/1991St Helens NorthSigned
Jeremy Corbyn30/04/1991Islington NorthSigned
Alice Mahon30/04/1991HalifaxSigned
Tony Lloyd30/04/1991StretfordSigned
Eric Illsley30/04/1991Barnsley CentralSigned
Joyce Quin01/05/1991Gateshead EastSigned
Alexander Eadie01/05/1991MidlothianSigned
Jack Thompson01/05/1991WansbeckSigned
Martyn Jones03/05/1991Clwyd South WestSigned
Alan Meale09/05/1991MansfieldSigned
Peter Pike15/05/1991BurnleySigned
Doug Hoyle17/05/1991Warrington NorthSigned
Tommy Graham21/05/1991Renfrew West and InverclydeSigned

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