Closure Of Coventry Colliery

EDM number 148 in 1991-92, proposed by Dennis Skinner on 13/11/1991.

That this House condemns British Coal for its closure of the Coventry Colliery at Keresley with the loss of 1,300 jobs, completed in a mere 13 days from the announcement of the decision to the working of the last shift; believes that the pit is not abandoned but mothballed with 40 million tonnes of good quality reserves of medium sulphur content which will be kept on a care and maintenance basis until a link-up is organised by a privatised Daw Mill Colliery should the Government be re-elected; condemns British Coal's refusal to attend two meetings of local authority and parish councillors, local honourable Members of this House and church representatives and notes the absence at the meetings of 24th October and 11th November of the local Tory honourable members; and calls for a public inquiry into the methods of the closure and the false economics which talk of 'losses' yet fail to take into account the future cost to public funds of lost production and taxes paid, and of dole and unemployment payments to be made.

This motion has been signed by a total of 28 MPs.