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Cap Reform

EDM number 1147 in 1990-91, proposed by Paul Marland on 16/07/1991.

That this House is concerned that the European Commission's new proposals for CAP reform would increase the immediate budgetary costs of the CAP, initiate a system of support requiring ever higher levels of subsidy to compensate for its anti-economic effect upon the competitiveness of European agriculture and discriminate against the United Kingdom's farmers, in terms of available support, and against the United Kingdom's taxpayers who would have to bear a disproportionate share of the escalating costs; questions therefore the appropriateness of using the word 'reform' to describe the proposals; congratulates the Minister of Agriculture for exposing the shortcomings of the Commission's approach and on his resolute stance in support of real reform of the CAP which would reduce the cost of agricultural support to taxpayers and consumers, allow a greater proportion of the available support to reach farmers directly, place greater emphasis on reconciling agricultural and environmental interest and meeting the costs of environmentally sensitive countryside management, protect those in marginal areas and place the burdens of reform equally upon all member states; believes farmers recognises the Minister's steadfast defence of the country's interest, as evidenced by the unexpectedly advantageous agreement secured in this year's price fixing, and overwhelmingly support his reform of the CAP which will safeguard the future of agriculture in the United Kingdom and to maintain his clear-headed resistance to reform for its own sake.

This motion has been signed by a total of 39 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Paul Marland16/07/1991Gloucestershire WestProposed
Geoffrey Pattie16/07/1991Chertsey and WaltonSigned
Mark Wolfson16/07/1991SevenoaksSigned
Nicholas Winterton16/07/1991MacclesfieldSigned
Ann Winterton16/07/1991CongletonSigned
Charles Wardle16/07/1991Bexhill & BattleSigned
Richard Tracey16/07/1991SurbitonSigned
Malcolm Thornton16/07/1991CrosbySigned
Patrick Thompson16/07/1991Norwich NorthSigned
David Sumberg16/07/1991Bury SouthSigned
Anthony Steen16/07/1991South HamsSigned
Robert Boscawen16/07/1991Somerton & FromeSigned
Nicholas Bonsor16/07/1991UpminsterSigned
Vivian Bendall16/07/1991Ilford NorthSigned
Michael Grylls16/07/1991Surrey North WestSigned
Teresa Gorman16/07/1991BillericaySigned
Barry Porter16/07/1991Wirral SouthSigned
Marion Roe16/07/1991BroxbourneSigned
David Shaw16/07/1991DoverSigned
Colin Shepherd16/07/1991HerefordSigned
Robert Hicks16/07/1991South East CornwallSigned
Roger Knapman16/07/1991StroudSigned
Emma Nicholson16/07/1991Torridge & West DevonSigned
Ian Bruce16/07/1991South DorsetSigned
Derek Conway16/07/1991Shrewsbury & AtchamSigned
James Cran16/07/1991BeverleySigned
Christopher Gill16/07/1991LudlowSigned
Anthony Grant16/07/1991Cambridge South WestSigned
David Madel16/07/1991South West BedfordshireSigned
David Knox17/07/1991Staffordshire MoorlandsSigned
John Townend17/07/1991BridlingtonSigned
George Gardiner17/07/1991ReigateSigned
Michael Colvin17/07/1991Romsey and WatersideSigned
Tim Rathbone17/07/1991LewesSigned
John Ward18/07/1991PooleSigned
William Powell22/07/1991CorbySigned
Michael Morris23/07/1991Northampton SouthSigned
Richard Alexander23/07/1991NewarkSigned
John Carlisle24/07/1991Luton NorthSigned

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