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News Reporting Of Telephone Chatline Services And The Director General Of Oftel

EDM number 230 in 1989-90, proposed by Terry Lewis on 18/12/1989.

That this House congratulates The Mail on Sunday for its brilliant expose of the sordid telephone chatline industry; notes that this investigation revealed telephone abuses already featured on the BBC Reportage programme in which the Director General of OFTEL took live part, that, as a consequence, he professed to understand the problems and undertook to introduce a Code of Practice by 8th December, which he claimed would have the effect of sanitising this whole sordid business; regrets, therefore, that his subsequent actions fell so far short of what is required and that abuse of the telephone service has continued unabated; and further notes that, in view of his failure to protect the public, the House now demands that the Director General of OFTEL suspend all such services or resign his position forthwith.

This motion has been signed by a total of 33 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Terry Lewis18/12/1989WorsleyProposed
Alan Meale19/12/1989MansfieldSigned
David Wilshire19/12/1989SpelthorneSigned
Harry Barnes19/12/1989North East DerbyshireSigned
Win Griffiths19/12/1989BridgendSigned
Eddie Loyden20/12/1989Liverpool, GarstonSigned
Bill Michie20/12/1989Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Jack Thompson21/12/1989WansbeckSigned
Jim Wallace21/12/1989Orkney & ShetlandSigned
John Cummings08/01/1990EasingtonSigned
Ian McCartney09/01/1990MakerfieldSigned
Mo Mowlam09/01/1990RedcarSigned
Jimmy Dunnachie09/01/1990Glasgow, PollokSigned
Gerry Steinberg10/01/1990Durham, City ofSigned
Norman Godman10/01/1990Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
Frank Cook10/01/1990Stockton NorthSigned
Keith Bradley10/01/1990Manchester, WithingtonSigned
Martin Redmond10/01/1990Don ValleySigned
Robert Parry10/01/1990Liverpool, RiversideSigned
Peter Pike10/01/1990BurnleySigned
Eric Illsley11/01/1990Barnsley CentralSigned
Alice Mahon11/01/1990HalifaxSigned
Diane Abbott11/01/1990Hackney North & Stoke NewingtonSigned
Keith Vaz12/01/1990Leicester EastSigned
Tommy Graham18/01/1990Renfrew West and InverclydeSigned
Dennis Turner18/01/1990Wolverhampton South EastSigned
Ron Davies19/01/1990CaerphillySigned
Gareth Wardell22/01/1990GowerSigned
Audrey Wise23/01/1990PrestonSigned
Allan Rogers25/01/1990RhonddaSigned
Jimmy Hood25/01/1990ClydesdaleSigned
Doug Hoyle29/01/1990Warrington NorthSigned
Martyn Jones31/01/1990Clwyd South WestSigned

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