The Eec Directive On Data Protection And The UK Voluntary Sector

EDM number 945 in 1990-91, proposed by Robert Maclennan on 12/06/1991.

That this House welcomes the European Community Commission's concern to ensure appropriate protection for the general public within its draft directive on data protection; regrets that the main emphasis of the draft directive as it relates to direct mail concentrates on regulation of every day use of direct mail as opposed to misuse of data; believes that the use of direct mailing techniques by the voluntary sector in the United Kingdom is a legitimate way of raising and distributing enormous resources in the other-than-for-profit sector; further believes that it is the misuse of data which damages an otherwise effective, efficient and appropriate form of communication between members, supporters and donors of non-profit groups; is concerned that the directive, as currently drafted, will be counter-productive to the agreed end of seeking to eradicate mis-directed and unwanted communication with individuals,and, furthermore, that it will severely restrict the voluntary sector's ability to raise funds and therefore carry out its charitable work; welcomes the establishment of CHANGE (Charities and Non-profit Groups in Europe) by the British voluntary sector; and support CHANGE's call for the Directive to be amended in favour of regulation against data misuse through a European-wide mailing preference service requiring mandatory registration.

This motion has been signed by a total of 117 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Robert Maclennan	12/06/1991	Caithness and Sutherland		Proposed
Barry Sheerman	12/06/1991	Huddersfield		Signed
Geraint Howells	12/06/1991	Ceredigion and Pembroke North		Signed
Simon Hughes	12/06/1991	Southwark and Bermondsey		Signed
Norman Godman	13/06/1991	Greenock and Port Glasgow		Signed
Ronnie Fearn	13/06/1991	Southport		Signed
Alistair Darling	13/06/1991	Edinburgh Central		Signed
Lawrence Cunliffe	13/06/1991	Leigh		Signed
Emma Nicholson	13/06/1991	Torridge & West Devon		Signed
Eric Illsley	13/06/1991	Barnsley Central		Signed
Kim Howells	13/06/1991	Pontypridd		Signed
Peter Hardy	13/06/1991	Wentworth		Signed
John Battle	14/06/1991	Leeds West		Signed
John Cummings	18/06/1991	Easington		Signed
Alex Carlile	20/06/1991	Montgomery		Signed
Win Griffiths	20/06/1991	Bridgend		Signed
John Watts	21/06/1991	Slough		Signed
Paul Channon	25/06/1991	Southend West		Signed
Doug Hoyle	27/06/1991	Warrington North		Signed
Eddie McGrady	27/06/1991	South Down		Signed
Llin Golding	28/06/1991	Newcastle-under-Lyme		Signed
David Knox	01/07/1991	Staffordshire Moorlands		Signed
Teresa Gorman	01/07/1991	Billericay		Signed
Mike Watson	01/07/1991	Glasgow Central		Signed
Tony Worthington	02/07/1991	Clydebank & Milngavie		Signed
David Clelland	02/07/1991	Tyne Bridge		Signed
Ronnie Campbell	02/07/1991	Blyth Valley		Signed
Chris Mullin	02/07/1991	Sunderland South		Signed
Alf Morris	02/07/1991	Manchester Wythenshawe		Signed
Alice Mahon	02/07/1991	Halifax		Signed
David Lambie	02/07/1991	Cunninghame South		Signed
Frank Field	03/07/1991	Birkenhead		Signed
Bill O'Brien	03/07/1991	Normanton		Signed
Lewis Moonie	03/07/1991	Kirkcaldy		Signed
Ieuan Wyn Jones	03/07/1991	Ynys M		Signed
John Smith	03/07/1991	Vale of Glamorgan		Signed
Matthew Taylor	04/07/1991	Truro		Signed
John Hannam	04/07/1991	Exeter		Signed
Peter Hain	04/07/1991	Neath		Signed
Sam Galbraith	04/07/1991	Strathkelvin & Bearsden		Signed
Marcus Fox	04/07/1991	Shipley		Signed
Frank Cook	04/07/1991	Stockton North		Signed
Eric Martlew	04/07/1991	Carlisle		Signed
Sylvia Heal	04/07/1991	Staffordshire Mid		Signed
Alan Haselhurst	04/07/1991	Saffron Walden		Signed
Jim Sillars	04/07/1991	Glasgow, Govan		Signed
Alex Salmond	04/07/1991	Banff & Buchan		Signed
Nicholas Bonsor	05/07/1991	Upminster		Signed
George Foulkes	05/07/1991	Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley		Signed
Brian Sedgemore	05/07/1991	Hackney South & Shoreditch		Signed
Robert Parry	08/07/1991	Liverpool, Riverside		Signed
Dennis Turner	09/07/1991	Wolverhampton South East		Signed
Tommy Graham	09/07/1991	Renfrew West and Inverclyde		Signed
Maria Fyfe	09/07/1991	Glasgow, Maryhill		Signed
Jimmy Dunnachie	09/07/1991	Glasgow, Pollok		Signed
Austin Mitchell	09/07/1991	Great Grimsby		Signed
Alan Meale	09/07/1991	Mansfield		Signed
Thomas McAvoy	09/07/1991	Glasgow, Rutherglen		Signed
Russell Johnston	09/07/1991	Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber		Signed
George Howarth	09/07/1991	Knowsley North		Signed
Giles Radice	09/07/1991	North Durham		Signed
Tom Pendry	09/07/1991	Stalybridge & Hyde		Signed
David Steel	10/07/1991	Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale		Signed
David Alton	10/07/1991	Liverpool Mossley Hill		Signed
Paul Murphy	10/07/1991	Torfaen		Signed
Ray Michie	10/07/1991	Argyll & Bute		Signed
William McKelvey	10/07/1991	Kilmarnock & Loudoun		Signed
Peter Pike	10/07/1991	Burnley		Signed
Edward O'Hara	11/07/1991	Knowsley South		Signed
Roland Boyes	11/07/1991	Houghton and Washington		Signed
Julian Critchley	11/07/1991	Aldershot		Signed
Richard Alexander	11/07/1991	Newark		Signed
Jim Wallace	12/07/1991	Orkney & Shetland		Signed
Harry Greenway	12/07/1991	Ealing North		Signed
Michael Martin	12/07/1991	Glasgow, Springburn		Signed
John McFall	15/07/1991	Dumbarton		Signed
Menzies Campbell	15/07/1991	Fife North East		Signed
Harry Ewing	16/07/1991	Falkirk East		Signed
James Wray	16/07/1991	Glasgow Provan		Signed
Simon Coombs	17/07/1991	Swindon		Signed
Jack Aspinwall	17/07/1991	Wansdyke		Signed
Charles Kennedy	18/07/1991	Ross and Cromarty and Skye		Signed
Adam Ingram	18/07/1991	East Kilbride		Signed
Jack Thompson	19/07/1991	Wansbeck		Signed
Winston Churchill	22/07/1991	Davyhulme		Signed
Donald Anderson	22/07/1991	Swansea East		Signed
Dafydd Wigley	22/07/1991	Caernarfon		Signed
Keith Vaz	23/07/1991	Leicester East		Signed
Huw Edwards	23/07/1991	Monmouth		Signed
Michael Mates	23/07/1991	East Hampshire		Signed
Tim Smith	23/07/1991	Beaconsfield		Signed
Keith Bradley	24/07/1991	Manchester, Withington		Signed
Janet Fookes	24/07/1991	Plymouth Drake		Signed
Andrew Bowden	24/07/1991	Brighton, Kemptown		Signed
Joan Walley	25/07/1991	Stoke-on-Trent North		Signed
Michael Grylls	25/07/1991	Surrey North West		Signed
Eddie Loyden	25/07/1991	Liverpool, Garston		Signed
Joan Ruddock	25/07/1991	Lewisham, Deptford		Signed
Brian Wilson	14/10/1991	Cunninghame North		Signed
Cecil Walker	14/10/1991	Belfast North		Signed
Paul Boateng	14/10/1991	Brent South		Signed
Roy Beggs	14/10/1991	East Antrim		Signed
Graham Allen	14/10/1991	Nottingham North		Signed
Margaret Ewing	14/10/1991	Moray		Signed
Patrick Cormack	14/10/1991	South Staffordshire		Signed
Ian Bruce	14/10/1991	South Dorset		Signed
David Mitchell	14/10/1991	North West Hampshire		Signed
Geoffrey Robinson	14/10/1991	Coventry North West		Signed
Peter Snape	14/10/1991	West Bromwich East		Signed
John Stanley	14/10/1991	Tonbridge & Malling		Signed
James Hill	14/10/1991	Southampton, Test		Signed
Archy Kirkwood	14/10/1991	Roxburgh & Berwickshire		Signed
Ken Livingstone	14/10/1991	Brent East		Signed
George Younger	15/10/1991	Ayr		Signed
Martin Smyth	17/10/1991	Belfast South		Signed
Peter Thurnham	17/10/1991	Bolton North East		Signed
Douglas French	21/10/1991	Gloucester		Signed

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