Poll Tax Arrears In Wales

EDM number 412 in 1991-92, proposed by Donald Anderson on 17/12/1991.

That this House is appalled by the admission by the Welsh Office, Written Answers, Official Report,16th December col.75 to the honourable Member for Swansea East, that since 1st April 1990, almost half a million summonses for poll tax arrears were issued by magistrates' courts in Wales, thus amounting to the criminalisation of a substantial proportion of the people of Wales, the vast majority of those summoned having never previously entered court; and urges the Welsh Office Ministers, all of whom were eloquent advocates of the poll tax, to publish, before the next general election, a cost/disbenefit analysis of the tax as a contribution to informed debate in the Principality.

This motion has been signed by a total of 21 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Donald Anderson	17/12/1991	Swansea East		Proposed
Win Griffiths	17/12/1991	Bridgend		Signed
Paul Murphy	17/12/1991	Torfaen		Signed
Alun Michael	17/12/1991	Cardiff South & Penarth		Signed
Martyn Jones	17/12/1991	Clwyd South West		Signed
John Smith	17/12/1991	Vale of Glamorgan		Signed
Raymond Powell	17/12/1991	Ogmore		Signed
Harry Barnes	18/12/1991	North East Derbyshire		Signed
Tony Banks	18/12/1991	Newham North West		Signed
Roland Boyes	18/12/1991	Houghton and Washington		Signed
William McKelvey	18/12/1991	Kilmarnock & Loudoun		Signed
John McAllion	18/12/1991	Dundee East		Signed
Roy Hughes	18/12/1991	Newport East		Signed
Ernie Ross	18/12/1991	Dundee West		Signed
Allan Rogers	18/12/1991	Rhondda		Signed
Jack Thompson	19/12/1991	Wansbeck		Signed
Ron Davies	19/12/1991	Caerphilly		Signed
Paul Flynn	21/01/1992	Newport West		Signed
Kim Howells	23/01/1992	Pontypridd		Signed
Tommy Graham	23/01/1992	Renfrew West and Inverclyde		Signed
Dafydd Wigley	23/01/1992	Caernarfon		Signed

Download raw data as csv or xml.

The information on this website is reproduced under Parliamentary Licence and may be reused under the same license, licenses can be obtained from OPSI.