Coal: Mining

(asked on 20th January 2015) - View Source

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, whether the final recipient of Restoration Lump Sum was (a) private companies or (b) the public purse.


Answered by
Matt Hancock Portrait
Matt Hancock
This question was answered on 2nd February 2015

The British Coal Corporation operated a practice whereby it retained a portion of sums payable to those private sector firms it contracted to operate surface mining sites on its behalf. On a site by site basis, those formed lump sums which were progressively paid to the contractor for the purposes of funding restoration.

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