Charges For Police In Ambulance Dispute

EDM number 376 in 1989-90, proposed by John Evans on 24/01/1990.

That this House notes that some police forces are profiteering from the ambulance dispute by charging income-generating rates for policemen now working on ambulance duty, that quoted prices per constable are often over 100 per cent. more than the same police authorities would charge neighbouring police forces for secondments, that even the exorbitant rates now being quoted exclude additional overtime, catering and equipment costs, that Merseyside Regional Health Authority has been quoted a basic price of ú18.50 an hour by Merseyside Police for each constable, the same rate as it charges commercial football clubs in the area, whilst the rate quoted by Hertfordshire police is just ú8.20 per hour, the mutual aid rate charged to neighbouring forces, that the Chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation has called such profiteering immoral, and that it is a disgrace that the national National Health Service management has remained virtually silent on the massive cost to individual health authorities as a result of their obstinate refusal, spurred on by this Government to reach a decent wage settlement with the nation's ambulance workers.

This motion has been signed by a total of 30 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.