Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many miners' widows were recipients of the Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme (a) in Easington constituency and (b) nationally in October 2023.

As of 30 June 2023, there were 23,974 spouse/dependant pensioners in the Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme. It is unclear how many of these are widows and the Government does not have the equivalent figure for the constituency. These are the most recent figures available.