Coal Privatisation

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Energy – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 11 November 1991.

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Photo of Frank Dobson Frank Dobson Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change 12:00, 11 November 1991

Why will not the Minister publish the secret reports that he is receiving on the future of the coal industry from Tory merchant bankers Rothschilds, whose privatisation unit is headed by the Tory candidate for Hampstead and Highgate? Are not the 60,000 miners and their families and those living in the coalfield communities, whose lives, livelihoods and communities are at stake, entitled to know? Is the right hon. Gentleman ashamed of what is in the reports? Is he frightened of them? If not, why cannot he come clean? Or will we have to rely on my getting the reports in plain brown envelopes a week or two after he has received them?