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Lords Chamber
UK Energy: Grid Decarbonisation - Mon 24 Mar 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Lord Offord of Garvel (Con - Life peer) In China, they use coal for baseload and in America they use shale gas for baseload. - Speech Link
2: Lord Alton of Liverpool (XB - Life peer) Did he raise the use of child labour in the DRC in lithium and cobalt mining and their use in green technology - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 18 Mar 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Nick Smith (Lab - Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney) After digging for coal for many years, 1,600 miners and their families have received an uplift of nearly - Speech Link
2: Sarah Jones (Lab - Croydon West) Friend for his remarks; he is right to talk about the British Coal staff superannuation scheme. - Speech Link
3: Elaine Stewart (Lab - Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock) The British Coal staff superannuation scheme has around 40,000 members who formerly worked in mining - Speech Link
4: Alan Strickland (Lab - Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor) I have recently met a number of families who are members of the British Coal staff superannuation scheme - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 - Mon 03 Mar 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Lord Jones (Lab - Life peer) I ask this in relation to coal mining and quarrying specifically; it may be that that information is - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
St David’s Day and Welsh Affairs - Thu 27 Feb 2025
Wales Office

Mentions:
1: Ruth Jones (Lab - Newport West and Islwyn) We know that Wales has a proud industrial heritage based on activities such as coal mining, slate quarrying - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Crown Estate Bill [Lords]
Report stage - Mon 24 Feb 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Llinos Medi (PC - Ynys Môn) From copper in Amlwch in Ynys Môn, slate in Gwynedd, steel in Port Talbot and Newport, to the coal across - Speech Link
2: Henry Tufnell (Lab - Mid and South Pembrokeshire) Talbot; we face an uncertain future at Grangemouth; and we still bear the scars of the loss of the mining - Speech Link


General Committees
Draft Mesothelioma Lump Sum Payments (Conditions and Amounts) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 Draft Pneumoconiosis etc. (Workers’ Compensation) (Payment of Claims) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 - Wed 12 Feb 2025
Department for Work and Pensions

Mentions:
1: Stephen Timms (Lab - East Ham) the diseases covered by the scheme, including pneumoconiosis, a disease associated particularly with coal - Speech Link
2: Harriet Cross (Con - Gordon and Buchan) women.Pneumoconiosis, too, remains a serious occupational disease, often affecting those in heavy industry, including coal - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Great British Energy Bill
Report stage part one - Tue 11 Feb 2025
Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

Mentions:
1: Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke (Lab - Life peer) When I was an Energy Minister about 25 years ago, it was described as clean coal technology. - Speech Link
2: Lord Hamilton of Epsom (Con - Life peer) The fact that it is not as polluting as coal does not mean it is not polluting at all.We have to look - Speech Link
3: Lord Howell of Guildford (Con - Life peer) All over Asia, there are coal-driven electric plants belching carbon and smoke, and more are being built - Speech Link
4: None China uses coal to power heavy industry and to export steel and cars, which we once produced in the UK - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Coalfield Communities - Thu 06 Feb 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Grahame Morris (Lab - Easington) who are former British Coal staff and their widows. - Speech Link
2: Jade Botterill (Lab - Ossett and Denby Dale) place to remember our rich industrial history.Yes, that is a plug to visit the National Coal Mining - Speech Link
3: Josh MacAlister (Lab - Whitehaven and Workington) Over 1,700 men, women and children are estimated to have been killed while mining coal in Whitehaven - Speech Link
4: Toby Perkins (Lab - Chesterfield) , as it has in all mining communities. - Speech Link
5: David Simmonds (Con - Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner) In the 1950s, coal produced most of our energy; today, it contributes to none—our last coal-fired power - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Renters’ Rights Bill - Tue 04 Feb 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Lord Wilson of Sedgefield (Lab - Life peer) Marquesses, 130 Earls and 73 Viscounts—none of them, as far as I am aware, the son or daughter of a coal - Speech Link
2: Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb (Green - Life peer) In fact, he was killed in a mining disaster, the largest there has ever been in Britain. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Oral Answers to Questions - Tue 21 Jan 2025
HM Treasury

Mentions:
1: Darren Jones (Lab - Bristol North West) Unfortunately, that work had not yet been done for the British Coal staff superannuation scheme, which - Speech Link
2: Nick Smith (Lab - Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney) Sadly, they have now passed, but they were members of the British Coal pension scheme. - Speech Link
3: David Mundell (Con - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale) I have significant former mining areas in the Douglas valley and Upper Nithsdale in my constituency. - Speech Link
4: Lindsay Hoyle (Spk - Chorley) Let us go to the Member for that well-known mining area of Strangford. - Speech Link
5: Steve Yemm (Lab - Mansfield) My constituency of Mansfield has more members of the British Coal staff superannuation scheme than any - Speech Link