John Healey MP has urged the Government to increase ex-miners’ pensions immediately after a damning report by a Parliamentary committee. He has been campaigning for years for changes to the [...]
John Healey has accused the Prime Minister of breaking an election promise to miners. He has written to Boris Johnson in a last-ditch attempt to get him to stick to [...]
South Yorkshire has the highest number of members of a controversial pension scheme in the UK, John has discovered. The Mineworkers Pension Scheme (MPS) has 130,047 members with one in [...]
John Healey is one of 20 Labour coalfield MPs calling for the Government to make sure industrial diseases are considered if an ex-miner dies of suspected COVID-19. Years of coal [...]
The Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme should be reviewed urgently, MP John Healey has told the Chancellor. The 1994 arrangement saw the UK Government agree to guarantee pensions in return for a [...]