Does the Prime Minister recognise that, given the background of mass unemployment, the cost of closing pits is greater than that of keeping them open? Will she bear in mind the social consequences of destroying thousands of jobs in areas in which the majority of school leavers have no hope of permanent work? Is she aware that, in Scotland and elsewhere, miners who have been treated as industrial gipsies are not prepared to see themselves and their children thrown on the scrap heap of mass unemployment?