Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Energy – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 11 November 1991.
Yes, Sir. I have already written to Mr. Roy Lynk inviting him to come to see me with his advisers so that I may give him all the information that I can. I am anxious that the UDM should play a part in the eventual privatisation of British Coal because I believe that that union and its members recognise that coal has a future, but only if it can be operated on a profitable and economic basis.