Pit closures inquiry
- Title
- Pit closures inquiry
- Genre
- News report; Interview; Parliamentary debate
- TX Date
- 27 Jan 1993
- Year of production
- 1993
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- Duration
- 00:03:58
- Description
- Political correspondent Kevin Murphy reports on the Trade and Industry Select Committee inquiry into the government’s coal mine closure programme which is expected to recommend half or more of the 31 pits be saved and call for subsidising of the coal industry. Interviews with Conservative committee member Dr Michael Clark and Conservative MP, Winston Churchill. Also exchange at Prime Minister’s Question Time between Labour Party Leader John Smith and Leader of the House Tony Newton (standing in for John Major) over coal industry reform. Sound is in mono.
- Contributors
- John Smith; Tony Newton; Kevin Murphy; Michael Clark; Winston Churchill (b. 1940)
- Keywords
- Reports; Exports; Public finance; Unemployment; Michael Heseltine; Coal industry; Coal mines; Mine closures
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