National Coal Board

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Energy – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 4 July 1983.

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Photo of Alan Beith Alan Beith Opposition Whip (Commons) 12:00, 4 July 1983

When the Secretary of State meets the chairman of the NCB, will he tell him that he now recognises that it would be quite wrong to put a nuclear power station in the middle of the Northumberland coalfield at Druridge bay? Does he realise that such proposals are part of the background against which miners are judging the closure of Lynemouth colliery, which was announced this weekend? That, as well as the fact that some of the men at Lynemouth will not be transferred to the highly profitable Ellington pit, is leading to great opposition to the proposal.