WOMEN'S RIGHTS AND THE SOCIAL CHAPTER

EDM number 459 in 1991-92, proposed by Sylvia Heal on 19/12/1991.

That this House condemns the Government's cynical decision to opt out of the Social Chapter at the Maastricht summit; considers it is a disaster for British women workers and for the United Kingdom's chances of achieving the return of a sustainable economic prosperity; that it is now clear that the Government's intention is to compete in Europe by creating a low-skill, low-tech, cheap labour economy, which enshrines the exploitation of women, who make up the majority of those now at risk; that far from adding to costs, as the Government claims, the Social Chapter would have guaranteed British women basic rights now enjoyed by other European workers; considers it reprehensible that this Government is now boasting about denying women workers, amongst other things, maximum hours with annual paid leave and adequate rest periods and full-time rights for part-time workers; that other European countries provide much higher standards of equality as part of their economic growth strategy, that British prosperity can never be built on the backs of underpaid women at work; that thanks to this Government Britain is already bottom of the European league for employment protection and rights at work; and that Labour will build prosperity within Europe.

This motion has been signed by a total of 99 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Sylvia Heal	19/12/1991	Staffordshire Mid		Proposed
Andrew Faulds	19/12/1991	Warley East		Signed
John Evans	19/12/1991	St Helens North		Signed
Derek Enright	19/12/1991	Hemsworth		Signed
Huw Edwards	19/12/1991	Monmouth		Signed
Alexander Eadie	19/12/1991	Midlothian		Signed
Gwyneth Dunwoody	19/12/1991	Crewe & Nantwich		Signed
Frank Doran	19/12/1991	Aberdeen South		Signed
Terry Davis	19/12/1991	Birmingham, Hodge Hill		Signed
Ron Davies	19/12/1991	Caerphilly		Signed
Alistair Darling	19/12/1991	Edinburgh Central		Signed
Jeremy Corbyn	19/12/1991	Islington North		Signed
Frank Cook	19/12/1991	Stockton North		Signed
Harry Cohen	19/12/1991	Leyton		Signed
Mark Fisher	19/12/1991	Stoke-on-Trent Central		Signed
Paul Flynn	19/12/1991	Newport West		Signed
Audrey Wise	19/12/1991	Preston		Signed
Mike Watson	19/12/1991	Glasgow Central		Signed
Gareth Wardell	19/12/1991	Gower		Signed
Joan Walley	19/12/1991	Stoke-on-Trent North		Signed
John Battle	19/12/1991	Leeds West		Signed
Kevin Barron	19/12/1991	Rother Valley		Signed
Hilary Armstrong	19/12/1991	North West Durham		Signed
Win Griffiths	19/12/1991	Bridgend		Signed
Irene Adams	19/12/1991	Paisley North		Signed
Mildred Gordon	19/12/1991	Bow and Poplar		Signed
Sam Galbraith	19/12/1991	Strathkelvin & Bearsden		Signed
Maria Fyfe	19/12/1991	Glasgow, Maryhill		Signed
George Foulkes	19/12/1991	Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley		Signed
David Clelland	19/12/1991	Tyne Bridge		Signed
Tom Clarke	19/12/1991	Monklands West		Signed
Robert Hughes	19/12/1991	Aberdeen North		Signed
Kim Howells	19/12/1991	Pontypridd		Signed
George Howarth	19/12/1991	Knowsley North		Signed
Kate Hoey	19/12/1991	Vauxhall		Signed
Doug Henderson	19/12/1991	Newcastle upon Tyne North		Signed
Harriet Harman	19/12/1991	Peckham		Signed
Andrew Smith	19/12/1991	Oxford East		Signed
Clare Short	19/12/1991	Birmingham, Ladywood		Signed
Joan Ruddock	19/12/1991	Lewisham, Deptford		Signed
Allan Rogers	19/12/1991	Rhondda		Signed
Joyce Quin	19/12/1991	Gateshead East		Signed
Dawn Primarolo	19/12/1991	Bristol South		Signed
Peter Pike	19/12/1991	Burnley		Signed
Adam Ingram	19/12/1991	East Kilbride		Signed
Greville Janner	19/12/1991	Leicester West		Signed
Dale Campbell-Savours	19/12/1991	Workington		Signed
James Callaghan	19/12/1991	Heywood & Middleton		Signed
Paul Murphy	19/12/1991	Torfaen		Signed
Mo Mowlam	19/12/1991	Redcar		Signed
Alf Morris	19/12/1991	Manchester Wythenshawe		Signed
Lewis Moonie	19/12/1991	Kirkcaldy		Signed
Alan Meale	19/12/1991	Mansfield		Signed
John McWilliam	19/12/1991	Blaydon		Signed
Alice Mahon	19/12/1991	Halifax		Signed
Tony Lloyd	19/12/1991	Stretford		Signed
Terry Lewis	19/12/1991	Worsley		Signed
Joan Lestor	19/12/1991	Eccles		Signed
Ashok Kumar	19/12/1991	Langbaurgh		Signed
Norman Godman	20/12/1991	Greenock and Port Glasgow		Signed
Harry Barnes	13/01/1992	North East Derbyshire		Signed
Eddie McGrady	13/01/1992	South Down		Signed
Dennis Turner	14/01/1992	Wolverhampton South East		Signed
Gordon Oakes	14/01/1992	Halton		Signed
Bill Michie	14/01/1992	Sheffield, Heeley		Signed
Alun Michael	14/01/1992	Cardiff South & Penarth		Signed
William McKelvey	14/01/1992	Kilmarnock & Loudoun		Signed
John McAllion	14/01/1992	Dundee East		Signed
Eddie Loyden	14/01/1992	Liverpool, Garston		Signed
Geoffrey Lofthouse	14/01/1992	Pontefract & Castleford		Signed
David Hinchliffe	14/01/1992	Wakefield		Signed
Peter Hardy	14/01/1992	Wentworth		Signed
Chris Smith	14/01/1992	Islington South & Finsbury		Signed
Ernie Ross	14/01/1992	Dundee West		Signed
Robert Parry	14/01/1992	Liverpool, Riverside		Signed
Gerry Steinberg	15/01/1992	Durham, City of		Signed
Peter Hain	15/01/1992	Neath		Signed
John Garrett	15/01/1992	Norwich South		Signed
Kenneth Eastham	15/01/1992	Manchester, Blackley		Signed
Tom Cox	15/01/1992	Tooting		Signed
Ronnie Campbell	15/01/1992	Blyth Valley		Signed
Ian McCartney	15/01/1992	Makerfield		Signed
Alan Wynne Williams	16/01/1992	Carmarthen		Signed
Donald Anderson	16/01/1992	Swansea East		Signed
Bruce Grocott	16/01/1992	Wrekin, The		Signed
Keith Bradley	16/01/1992	Manchester, Withington		Signed
Eric Illsley	16/01/1992	Barnsley Central		Signed
Brian Wilson	17/01/1992	Cunninghame North		Signed
Martin Redmond	22/01/1992	Don Valley		Signed
John Smith	23/01/1992	Vale of Glamorgan		Signed
Edward O'Hara	23/01/1992	Knowsley South		Signed
Tommy Graham	23/01/1992	Renfrew West and Inverclyde		Signed
Elliot Morley	31/01/1992	Glanford and Scunthorpe		Signed
Martyn Jones	03/02/1992	Clwyd South West		Signed
Jack Thompson	10/02/1992	Wansbeck		Signed
Eric Martlew	03/03/1992	Carlisle		Signed
Barry Sheerman	09/03/1992	Huddersfield		Signed
Denzil Davies	09/03/1992	Llanelli		Signed
Bruce George	12/03/1992	Walsall South		Signed

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