Coalfield Communities

Debate between Matt Hancock and Ronnie Campbell

Tuesday 28th October 2014 Commons Chamber

[Mr Ronnie Campbell]

The Minister says it was a partnership, but it was not much of a partnership when Lord Heseltine was at the Dispatch Box and closed 31 pits, with jobs losses for 60,000 miners. That wasn’t a very good partnership, was it?

[Matthew Hancock]

Harold Wilson closed 252 pits, with more than 200,000 jobs lost, so we can trade figures easily on that point.