Asked by: Ben Bradley (Conservative - Mansfield)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to ensure that mineworkers in deprived areas have access to a proportionate share of the profits made by the Mineworkers' Pension Scheme.
Answered by Lord Harrington of Watford
The allocation of bonuses from the Trustees’ share of surpluses in the Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme is a matter for the Trustees.
Asked by: Ben Bradley (Conservative - Mansfield)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 25 October 2017 to Question 108898, on National Union of Mineworkers: Northumberland, if he will place the requested documentation in the Library.
Answered by Margot James
As I previously set out in my answer to Question 108898, the Certification Officer is not in a position to disclose documentation on current or past cases. This means that any documentation related to the case of the National Union of Mineworkers: Northumberland remains in the custody of the Certification Officer on a confidential basis.
Asked by: Ben Bradley (Conservative - Mansfield)
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to the Certification Officer's letter to the National Union of Mineworkers Northumberland Area of 12 October 2017, if he will place in the Library a copy of all the evidence submitted for the Certification Officer's consideration.
Answered by Margot James
The Certification Officer is not in a position to disclose documentation on current or past cases. Disclosure could prejudice further investigations or future cases.
The Certification is an independent statutory office holder. The Certification Officer’s enquiries into the financial affairs of the National Union of Mineworkers (Northumberland Area) were undertaken to enable him to consider whether it was appropriate to use his powers under section 37B of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 to appoint an inspector to investigate those affairs in the light of allegations and information received.