Mentions:
1: Jane Hutt (Welsh Labour - None) ' investment reserve fund to pension scheme trustees. - Speech Link
2: Jane Hutt (Welsh Labour - None) benefits that have come through not just supporting, but continuing to support our free breakfast scheme - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) We will also reform the right to buy, to deliver a fairer, better value and more sustainable scheme where - Speech Link
2: Josh Newbury (Lab - Cannock Chase) Last year, this Labour Government delivered justice for members of the mineworkers’ pension scheme, and - Speech Link
3: Keir Starmer (Lab - Holborn and St Pancras) I was pleased that the first increased payments to mineworkers’ pension scheme members were made at the - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) Will the Government establish a clean community energy scheme, look at the barriers that currently face - Speech Link
2: Melanie Ward (Lab - Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy) ’ pension scheme to those who powered our country for decades. - Speech Link
3: Sarah Jones (Lab - Croydon West) I am proud that we have finally ended the injustice of the mineworkers’ pension scheme. - Speech Link
4: Lee Pitcher (Lab - Doncaster East and the Isle of Axholme) In my constituency there are nearly 1,500 members of the mineworkers’ pension scheme. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Mark Drakeford (Welsh Labour - None) No more will the mineworkers’ pension scheme be raided to pay for Tory priorities. - Speech Link
2: Alun Davies (Welsh Labour - None) scheme is absolutely important and is to be welcomed by everybody. - Speech Link
Asked by: Grahame Morris (Labour - Easington)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, on what date the Government last made a contribution to the Mineworkers' Pension Scheme under British Coal.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson
The Government has not needed to input funds to the Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme since becoming Guarantor.
Asked by: Grahame Morris (Labour - Easington)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many (a) former miners and (b) former miners' widows are in receipt of a mineworkers' pension.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson
As at 31 March 2024, the number of former miners in receipt of a Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme pension is 86,032 and the number of former miners’ widows/dependants in receipt of a pension is 23,253.
Mentions:
1: McArthur, Liam (LD - Orkney Islands) force of the state was deployed against the miners and their trade union, the National Union of Mineworkers - Speech Link
2: Leonard, Richard (Lab - Central Scotland) the union busting of Thatcher, of MacGregor, of Wheeler; of the threat to the National Union of Mineworkers - Speech Link
3: Adamson, Clare (SNP - Motherwell and Wishaw) Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, about the injustice of the miners pension - Speech Link
Asked by: Grahame Morris (Labour - Easington)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, what the average cost of fees is for a recipient of a pension through the Mineworkers' Pension Scheme.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson
In the year to September 2023, Scheme expenses totalled £36m. The number of members in receipt of a pension at 30 September 2023 is 112,057. Therefore, the cost of scheme expenses per member in receipt of a pension is £321.27.
Asked by: Grahame Morris (Labour - Easington)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, pursuant to the Answer of 14 November 2023 to Question 1095 on Mineworkers' Pension Scheme, if she will take steps to calculate how many of the 23,974 spouse/dependant pensioners in the Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme reside in (a) Easington constituency and (b) the North East.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson
The breakdown of dependant members by constituency is not available. It would be for the Trustees to take steps to calculate this figure. As at June 2023, the total number of MPS members in Easington was 3563 and in the North East was 15,917.
Asked by: Grahame Morris (Labour - Easington)
Question to the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero:
To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, how many (a) former miners and (b) former miners' widows are in receipt of a mineworkers' pension in Easington constituency.
Answered by Justin Tomlinson
As at June 2023, the total number of members of the Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme in the Easington constituency was 3,563. The breakdown by former miners and former miners’ widows is not available.