Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Industry – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 5 Mehefin 1991.
Dennis Skinner
Member, Labour Party National Executive Committee
12:00,
5 Mehefin 1991
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether he will meet representatives of the work force of Reeve Burgess to discuss the setting up of a co-operative for the manufacture of coaches in the Constituency of Bolsover.
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