Coal Industry Dispute

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 17 May 1984.

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Photo of Mr Keith Raffan Mr Keith Raffan , Delyn 12:00, 17 May 1984

Is my right hon. and learned Friend aware that his announcement last Friday of financial assistance to those police authorities covering the miners' dispute will still leave the North Wales police authority facing a severe financial crisis? In the first instance it will have to find 50 per cent. of the product of a penny rate — £316,000 — and that will consume not only its entire contingency budget of £200,000, but eat substantially into the main budget. Surely it cannot be right for the people of north Wales to have to pay even in part for the policing of this dispute.