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Government gets £420m from miners pension scheme
More than £420m from a pension scheme for mineworkers has flowed into the government's coffers in the past three years, the BBC can reveal. The government is entitled to half the surplus cash from the scheme under an agreement signed 30 years ago. Labour says the deal is unfair to former miners and their families. Shadow minister Ed Miliband says Labour will review the agreement if it wins power to "deliver the justice to which miners are entitled". Tens of thousands of families, mainly in the East Midlands, Yorkshire and the North East of England, benefit from the pension scheme, which was taken over by the ... (full story)