Orders of the Day — Steel Industry

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:05 am on 28 July 1981.

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Photo of Mr Peter Hardy Mr Peter Hardy , Rother Valley 12:05, 28 July 1981

A great deal of coking coal is produced in my constituency in the South Yorkshire area of the National Coal Board. The current cost of producing the coal is £37 a tonne. The cost of producing the coal from Ruhr Kohle AG mines in West Germany, the only other significant producer of coking coal in Europe, is about £47 a tonne. That is not the latest figure whereas the figure I have given for South Yorkshire is as recent as early this week. The hon. Gentleman is miles from reality.