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Unterground in Big Pit, one of John Cornwell s mining photographs. ISLWYN MP Chris Evans has joined calls for the UK Government to fix the ‘broken Mineworkers Pension Scheme’. More than half of the 152,000 retired miners on the Mineworkers Pension Scheme receive less than £84 a week, with the UK Government receiving billions of pounds, which many argue should have gone to the miners. Since 1994, the government has gained more than £4.4 billion from the Mineworkers Pension Scheme, after an arrangement was agreed that 50 per cent of any surplus in the scheme at its privatisation would go to members pensions, while the other 50 per cent was put in an investment reserve, to be called on should a deficit arise.
× THOUSANDS of ex-miners who toiled in their working lives to be greeted by a ‘grossly unfair’ pension scheme should receive an immediate cash windfall, says a damning parliamentary report.
The cross-party Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Select Committee report heavily criticises the government’s claiming of at least £4bn from a pension pot for former miners, many of whom also suffer long-term illness and disabilities after years down the mines.
It confirms that current arrangements, in place after an ‘arbitrary’ agreement between the government and pension trustees in 1994, disproportionately benefit the government at the expense of members.
Some, according to the inquiry held on March 23, survive on as little as £18 a week.
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Uyghur men held in camps in north-west China. Estimates suggest more then one million Muslims are being held in such conditions. (Jewish News)
I was one of five MPs, sanctioned by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). My sanction was likely a result of my work exposing the gross human rights abuses and enslavement of the Uyghur in Xinjiang, supported strongly by this paper and its readers. Over the last year, I have campaigned to have the Genocide/Alton/Ghani Amendment added to the Trade Bill, which would enable the UK to consider and determine genocide and therefore ensure we weren’t offering preferential trade agreements with countries committing genocide. And as a member of the Bu