They have seen the new estimate of 200 million to 215 million itself causing very great hardship in many of our coalfields.
We have committed £350 million, over three years, to regenerate coalfield communities.
Since the miners' strike, the coalfield communities campaign has been set up nationally.
Targets have been sent out to the coalfields which will limit output this year.
Large tracts of this country are outside and remote from the areas of coalfields.
Diversity patterns vary between different coalfields.
However away from the centre of the industrial activity agriculture survived, and as the era of industrial prosperity waned after the 1840s, farming returned to many parts of the coalfield.
Conversely, there are parts of the coalfield where thrusts are relatively rare in the earlier argillaceous sequence.
