Coal Imports

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Energy – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 24 February 1992.

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Photo of Mr Alexander Eadie Mr Alexander Eadie , Midlothian 12:00, 24 February 1992

Does the Secretary of State realise that his comments have failed to persuade the House that the policy that he and the Government are operating is right? It is a gross slander on the miners to talk about the cost of coal and about productivity when miners in Britain are achieving record productivity figures. How can the right hon. Gentleman stand at the Dispatch Box and seek to justify the untrammelled entry of coal imports into Britain, which is flinging thousands of miners out of work and at the same time digging a hole for the economic morass in our balance of payments?