Conor McGinn MP Member of Parliament for St Helens North
Former miners in St Helens, Lancashire and across the country deserve a fair pension. But it turns out that vast sums of money made from investing their pension contributions has been going straight into the Government’s coffers instead of into miners’ own bank accounts. The Government has received an incredible хЃ3.4billion thanks to an unjust deal that was struck years ago.
This is unfair and unjust treatment. Alongside other MPs representing coalfield constituencies, I have been campaigning on this issue and recently attended a meeting with Trustees of the Mineworkers Pension Scheme and the National Union of Mineworkers, and we are now all jointly calling for a renegotiation of the scheme and asking to meet the Government to find a resolution.\n
This is unfair and unjust treatment. Alongside other MPs representing coalfield constituencies, I have been campaigning on this issue and recently attended a meeting with Trustees of the Mineworkers Pension Scheme and the National Union of Mineworkers, and we are now all jointly calling for a renegotiation of the scheme and asking to meet the Government to find a resolution.\n
As my colleague Gloria de Piero MP said:
“Miners powered our country for generations. They survived one of the most brutal strikes this country has ever seen. And they deserve the pension they worked their entire lives for and is rightfully theirs.”
“Miners powered our country for generations. They survived one of the most brutal strikes this country has ever seen. And they deserve the pension they worked their entire lives for and is rightfully theirs.”
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