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Proffil

Cyn MP am Wigan

Aeth i mewn i'r Tŷ'r Cyffredin ar 11 Mawrth 1942 — unknown

Gadawodd y Tŷ'r Cyffredin ar 2 Rhagfyr 1947 — Wedi marw

Previous MPs in this constituency

• John Parkinson
• Reginald Neville
• Henry Twist
• Francis Powell
• Nathaniel Eckersley
• Algernon Egerton
• Francis Powell
• Thomas Knowles
• Lindsay
• Thomas Knowles
• Lindsay
• Henry Woods
• John Lancaster
• Nathaniel Eckersley
• Henry Woods
• James Lindsay
• Henry Woods
• Francis Powell
• Henry Woods
• Joseph Acton
• James Lindsay
• Ralph Thicknesse
• James Lindsay
• Charles Standish
• Peter Greenall
• Thomas Crosse
• William Ewart
• Charles Standish
• Richard Potter
• John Kearsley
• Richard Potter
• Ralph Thicknesse
• Richard Potter
• John Kearsley
• James Lindsay
• John Kearsley
• James Lindsay
• James Lindsay
• James Lindsay
• James Lindsay
• James Lindsay
• of Balcarres
• John Hodson
• Robert Leigh
• John Hodson
• Robert Leigh
• John Hodson
• Robert Leigh
• John Hodson
• Robert Leigh
• John Hodson
• Robert Leigh

Future MPs in this constituency

• Ronald Williams
• Alan Fitch
• Roger Stott
• Neil Turner
• Lisa Nandy

Ymddangosiadau diweddar

• Oral Answers to Questions — Coal Industry: Trade Union Dues (Collection) 1 May 1947

  Is my right hon. Friend not aware that in these cases where trade union contributions are deducted through the colliery office, the miners themselves pay a percentage out of the contributions for the services rendered?

• Oral Answers to Questions — Coal Industry: Disabled Ex-Miners 1 May 1947

  asked the Minister of Fuel and Power if he will discuss with the National Coal Board the employment in the mining industry of unemployed exminers suffering from some slight physical disability, but fit and capable of performing useful work underground or on the surface, submitted by respective local employment exchanges for notified vacancies.

• Oral Answers to Questions — Coal Industry: Disabled Ex-Miners 1 May 1947

  Is my right hon. Friend aware that there are thousands of ex- miners suffering from slight disability who are signing on at the employment exchange and who, in some cases, have been submitted to the local collieries for employment and have been rejected on medical grounds?

Mwy o ymddangosiadau diweddar Mr William Foster