South Yorkshire MP urges Government to give recipients of controversial miners' pension scheme a "decent deal"
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The Mineworkers Pension Scheme (MPS) has 130,047 members with one in five – 27,051 – living in and around South Yorkshire.
The new figures came from a request from John Healey, MP for Wentworth and Dearne to the House of Commons Library.
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Hide AdMr Healey says that for 6,710 members in and around the Wentworth and Dearne constituency alone – more than in the whole of the North West region combined the average pension is just £84 a week.
Mr Healey said: “These new figures show what a difference it would make in our area if the Government listened and gave miners and their families a decent deal.
“They deserve better than £84 a week after the very tough job they did underground to keep our country going.