§ Mr. William Hamiltonasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what immediate financial assistance is being made available to miners and mining communities as a consequence of British membership of the EEC.
§ Mr. Tom BoardmanIn addition to the general economic advantages conferred by membership of the Community, the British coal industry will benefit from the various special schemes run by the ECSC. These include a contribution, in the form of readaptation grants, towards the costs of our own redundancy scheme and access to the money which the Community makes available for research and to Community loans for such purposes as housing, investment and reconversion programmes.