Hatfield Colliery Debate

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Kevin Barron

Main Page: Kevin Barron (Labour - Rother Valley)
Thursday 2nd July 2015

(9 years, 4 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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No, I will not give way, because I want to finish this point.

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No, hang on, hang on. I have given way. [Interruption.] Hang on. This is a debate. I need to finish my sentence, and I am running out of time.

There was no possibility of a contract. The right hon. Member for Doncaster will accept that the directors and others—all involved in the future of the pit—were doing everything they could to secure a contract, but the one thing that nobody has been able to do is to secure a contract. There is no debate about that.