MPs will vote next week on whether the Thatcher Government “misled the public” about its conduct during the miners’ strike.

Labour will stage the clash as part of what it calls a ‘Justice for the Coalfields’ campaign, 30 years after the bitter dispute.

The party has already demanded the release of all communications with the police, amid fresh evidence that ministers sought to toughen up the tactics employed.

And it has called for an investigation into the brutal picket line clashes at the infamous ‘Battle of Orgreave’ – to mark its 30th anniversary, in June.

Now Labour’s motion, to be debated next Tuesday, will call on the Commons to:

* Acknowledge the evidence that the Thatcher Government “misled the public about the extent of its pit closure plans and sought to influence police tactics”.

* Recognise the “economic legacy” of the pit closure programme in coalfield communities.

* Back “continued regeneration and much needed support for coalfield communities”.

Michael Dugher, a Cabinet Office spokesman, said: “This will be an historic debate and vote in the House of Commons.

“It is now only right that Parliament recognises just how badly ministers at the time treated the coalfield communities and acknowledges the full scale of the economic legacy of the pit closure programme.

“The sense of injustice endures today across those coalfield communities who are still dealing with the devastating consequences of what happened.”

The vote follows the release of revelatory secret papers about the 1984-85 strike, under the 30-year rule, at the start of this year.

Ministers were revealed to be aware that Ian MacGregor, the National Coal Board (NCB) chief, was plotting to close 75 pits, at the cost of 65,000 jobs – not the 20 that ministers and the NCB claimed.

The papers showed that Margaret Thatcher considered deploying troops during the strike, by declaring a state of emergency.

And MI5 was used to put union officials suspected of smuggling suitcases full of money donated by the Soviet Union under surveillance.