BARNSLEY East MP Michael Dugher has welcomed news that talks will be held to get a better pension deal for former miners.
The trustees of the Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme have written to Labour MPs from coalfield communities agreeing to their demand for a meeting.
The MPs called for the meeting to review an arrangement that has deprived ex-miners of billions of pounds in pension payments.
Under an agreement made by the Conservative government and the trustees of the British Coal pensions schemes in 1994, half of the surplus made by the MPS goes to the government.
Since 1994, it has made £3.36bn from the scheme despite making no contributions, even when the scheme was in deficit.
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