§ Mr. HansonTo ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will list the collieries that were assessed as being viable in the Boyd report.
§ Mr. Eggar[holding answer 27 November 1992]: The Boyd report prepared for my Department earlier this year did not assess the viability of individual collieries. It looked at the scope for productivity improvements and cost reductions in a group of representative collieries chosen by British Coal.