Police Charges For Football

EDM number 68 in 1990-91, proposed by Joseph Ashton on 14/11/1990.

That this House notes that the Home Secretary, following an Audit Commission report, has instructed local police authorities to levy the full cost of policing football on to the individual clubs including all overheads such as pensions, rent allowances etc. and not just the overtime involved; further notes that clubs have to pay without any opportunity to negotiate on the number of policemen on duty, the hours charged, or the rate per hour; also notes the wide variation in charges where similar clubs in the same league are charged 40 pence per spectator at Halifax and five pence per spectator at nearby Scunthorpe and that the whole of the gate receipts for the recent cup match between Wimbledon and Plymouth went to pay the police costs; deplores the new charges of approximately ú100 per constable per match which will take an extra ú2 million from the game at a time the Government is demanding that the clubs install all seater stadiums; and now calls on the Home Secretary to introduce a flat charge of approximately two per cent of the gate money to be paid to the police authorities in order to iron out the anomalies and keep many small clubs in existence.

This motion has been signed by a total of 98 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Joe Ashton	14/11/1990	Bassetlaw		Proposed
Llin Golding	14/11/1990	Newcastle-under-Lyme		Signed
John Garrett	14/11/1990	Norwich South		Signed
Michael Foot	14/11/1990	Blaenau Gwent		Signed
John Evans	14/11/1990	St Helens North		Signed
Ron Davies	14/11/1990	Caerphilly		Signed
Lawrence Cunliffe	14/11/1990	Leigh		Signed
Bob Cryer	14/11/1990	Bradford South		Signed
Robin Corbett	14/11/1990	Birmingham, Erdington		Signed
David Clelland	14/11/1990	Tyne Bridge		Signed
Dale Campbell-Savours	14/11/1990	Workington		Signed
Richard Caborn	14/11/1990	Sheffield Central		Signed
Keith Bradley	14/11/1990	Manchester, Withington		Signed
Roland Boyes	14/11/1990	Houghton and Washington		Signed
Edward O'Hara	14/11/1990	Knowsley South		Signed
Gordon Oakes	14/11/1990	Halton		Signed
Paul Murphy	14/11/1990	Torfaen		Signed
Chris Mullin	14/11/1990	Sunderland South		Signed
Mildred Gordon	14/11/1990	Bow and Poplar		Signed
Tony Banks	14/11/1990	Newham North West		Signed
Harry Barnes	14/11/1990	North East Derbyshire		Signed
David Young	14/11/1990	Bolton South East		Signed
Audrey Wise	14/11/1990	Preston		Signed
David Winnick	14/11/1990	Walsall North		Signed
Brian Wilson	14/11/1990	Cunninghame North		Signed
Michael Welsh	14/11/1990	Doncaster North		Signed
Joan Walley	14/11/1990	Stoke-on-Trent North		Signed
Dennis Turner	14/11/1990	Wolverhampton South East		Signed
Jack Thompson	14/11/1990	Wansbeck		Signed
John Taylor	14/11/1990	Strangford		Signed
Gerry Steinberg	14/11/1990	Durham, City of		Signed
David Blunkett	14/11/1990	Sheffield, Brightside		Signed
Gerry Bermingham	14/11/1990	St Helens South		Signed
Joe Benton	14/11/1990	Bootle		Signed
Stuart Bell	14/11/1990	Middlesbrough		Signed
Roy Beggs	14/11/1990	East Antrim		Signed
John Battle	14/11/1990	Leeds West		Signed
Kevin Barron	14/11/1990	Rother Valley		Signed
Elliot Morley	14/11/1990	Glanford and Scunthorpe		Signed
Lewis Moonie	14/11/1990	Kirkcaldy		Signed
Max Madden	14/11/1990	Bradford West		Signed
Kate Hoey	14/11/1990	Vauxhall		Signed
Harriet Harman	14/11/1990	Peckham		Signed
Nigel Spearing	14/11/1990	Newham South		Signed
Peter Snape	14/11/1990	West Bromwich East		Signed
John Smith	14/11/1990	Vale of Glamorgan		Signed
Dennis Skinner	14/11/1990	Bolsover		Signed
Brian Sedgemore	14/11/1990	Hackney South & Shoreditch		Signed
Ted Rowlands	14/11/1990	Merthyr Tydfil & Rhymney		Signed
Willie Ross	14/11/1990	East Londonderry		Signed
Ernie Ross	14/11/1990	Dundee West		Signed
Terry Rooney	14/11/1990	Bradford North		Signed
Stuart Randall	14/11/1990	Kingston upon Hull West		Signed
Dawn Primarolo	14/11/1990	Bristol South		Signed
Tom Pendry	14/11/1990	Stalybridge & Hyde		Signed
Terry Patchett	14/11/1990	Barnsley East		Signed
Robert Parry	14/11/1990	Liverpool, Riverside		Signed
Peter Pike	14/11/1990	Burnley		Signed
Jimmy Hood	14/11/1990	Clydesdale		Signed
George Howarth	14/11/1990	Knowsley North		Signed
Jim Marshall	14/11/1990	Leicester South		Signed
Michael Martin	14/11/1990	Glasgow, Springburn		Signed
Eric Martlew	14/11/1990	Carlisle		Signed
John McAllion	14/11/1990	Dundee East		Signed
William McKelvey	14/11/1990	Kilmarnock & Loudoun		Signed
Alan Meale	14/11/1990	Mansfield		Signed
Bill Michie	14/11/1990	Sheffield, Heeley		Signed
Austin Mitchell	14/11/1990	Great Grimsby		Signed
Alice Mahon	14/11/1990	Halifax		Signed
Eddie Loyden	14/11/1990	Liverpool, Garston		Signed
Kim Howells	14/11/1990	Pontypridd		Signed
Doug Hoyle	14/11/1990	Warrington North		Signed
Roy Hughes	14/11/1990	Newport East		Signed
Greville Janner	14/11/1990	Leicester West		Signed
David Lambie	14/11/1990	Cunninghame South		Signed
James Lester	14/11/1990	Broxtowe		Signed
Robert Litherland	14/11/1990	Manchester Central		Signed
Geoffrey Lofthouse	14/11/1990	Pontefract & Castleford		Signed
James Wray	15/11/1990	Glasgow Provan		Signed
Maria Fyfe	15/11/1990	Glasgow, Maryhill		Signed
John Cummings	15/11/1990	Easington		Signed
Alex Carlile	15/11/1990	Montgomery		Signed
Menzies Campbell	15/11/1990	Fife North East		Signed
Eric Illsley	15/11/1990	Barnsley Central		Signed
Peter Hardy	15/11/1990	Wentworth		Signed
David Knox	19/11/1990	Staffordshire Moorlands		Signed
Tony Lloyd	19/11/1990	Stretford		Signed
Dafydd Wigley	19/11/1990	Caernarfon		Signed
Terry Lewis	20/11/1990	Worsley		Signed
Alun Michael	20/11/1990	Cardiff South & Penarth		Signed
Mike Watson	21/11/1990	Glasgow Central		Signed
Martin Smyth	21/11/1990	Belfast South		Signed
Ieuan Wyn Jones	28/11/1990	Ynys M		Signed
Tommy Graham	28/11/1990	Renfrew West and Inverclyde		Signed
Robert Wareing	03/12/1990	Liverpool, West Derby		Signed
Tim Smith	17/12/1990	Beaconsfield		Signed
Dafydd Elis Thomas	17/12/1990	Meirionnydd Nant Conwy		Signed
Donald Coleman	Unknown			Withdrawn

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