§ Q1. Mr. EnrightTo ask the Prime Minister when he will pay an official visit to Havercroft.
§ The Prime Minister (Mr. John Major)I am making plans for a series of visits to all parts of the country and hope to include Yorkshire among them.
§ Mr. EnrightIs the Prime Minister aware that miners from Havercroft, who have been blackmailed into taking redundancy payments, do not count among the 3 million unemployed? Is he further aware that if the pit at Grimesthorpe were to be closed, male unemployment in the area would be one in three? Will he today, therefore, guarantee the future of Grimesthorpe, not least because it is commercially profitable?
§ The Prime MinisterNo one is blackmailed in the way the hon. Gentleman says. The position of Grimesthorpe, as with the other pits, will he covered in the review being undertaken by my right hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade.