Coal Shortage

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 1 February 1951.

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Photo of Miss Irene Ward Miss Irene Ward , Tynemouth 12:00, 1 February 1951

I apologise to the right hon. Gentleman. I thought that he had come to the end of his statement, otherwise I should not have tried to interrupt. I wanted to ask if this new statement repudiates the statement made in September that, after 1953, opencast coal mining would gradually be wound down.