Discriminatory Practices And The Rugby Football Union

EDM number 1342 in 1992-93, proposed by David Hinchliffe on 08/02/1993.

That this House notes with interest the remarkable contrast between the Rugby Football Union Authorities' attitude to those players who, according to the Pugh Report, received individual payments of ú30,000 or more for taking part in the 1989 South African Centenary Tour and continue to play Rugby Union, in several instances for their countries, and its attitude to Mr Steve Pilgrim, the Wasps RUFC full back, who has been banned from playing Rugby Union for 12 months after playing one match as an amateur with Leeds RLFC reserves; believes the treatment of Mr Pilgrim breaches both basic sporting principles and civil rights; and noting the extensive public subsidies received by the Rugby Football Union through Government Departments, the Sports Council and the Foundation for Sport and the Arts, calls upon the National Heritage Committee to investigate whether the granting of such public subsidies is appropriate in the light of the Rugby Football Union's blatantly discriminatory practices.

This motion has been signed by a total of 124 MPs, 4 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
David Hinchliffe	08/02/1993	Wakefield		Proposed
Paddy Tipping	08/02/1993	Sherwood		Signed
Jimmy Boyce	08/02/1993	Rotherham		Signed
Neil Gerrard	08/02/1993	Walthamstow		Signed
Lawrence Cunliffe	08/02/1993	Leigh		Signed
Richard Caborn	08/02/1993	Sheffield Central		Signed
Keith Bradley	08/02/1993	Manchester, Withington		Signed
Bill O'Brien	08/02/1993	Normanton		Signed
Bill Michie	08/02/1993	Sheffield, Heeley		Signed
Ian McCartney	08/02/1993	Makerfield		Signed
Eric Martlew	08/02/1993	Carlisle		Signed
David Hanson	08/02/1993	Delyn		Signed
Colin Pickthall	08/02/1993	West Lancashire		Signed
Peter Pike	08/02/1993	Burnley		Signed
Kevin Hughes	08/02/1993	Doncaster North		Signed
John Hutton	08/02/1993	Barrow & Furness		Signed
Peter Kilfoyle	08/02/1993	Liverpool, Walton		Signed
Alice Mahon	08/02/1993	Halifax		Signed
John Cummings	09/02/1993	Easington		Signed
Jim Dowd	09/02/1993	Lewisham West		Signed
Jimmy Dunnachie	09/02/1993	Glasgow, Pollok		Signed
John Evans	09/02/1993	St Helens North		Signed
Norman Godman	09/02/1993	Greenock and Port Glasgow		Signed
Janet Anderson	09/02/1993	Rossendale & Darwen		Signed
Harry Barnes	09/02/1993	North East Derbyshire		Signed
John Battle	09/02/1993	Leeds West		Signed
Gerry Steinberg	09/02/1993	Durham, City of		Signed
Michael Connarty	09/02/1993	Falkirk East		Signed
Eric Clarke	09/02/1993	Midlothian		Signed
Allan Rogers	09/02/1993	Rhondda		Signed
Terry Rooney	09/02/1993	Bradford North		Signed
Ernie Ross	09/02/1993	Dundee West		Signed
Peter Hardy	09/02/1993	Wentworth		Signed
Terry Lewis	09/02/1993	Worsley		Signed
John McAllion	09/02/1993	Dundee East		Signed
William McKelvey	09/02/1993	Kilmarnock & Loudoun		Signed
Alan Meale	09/02/1993	Mansfield		Signed
Gordon Oakes	09/02/1993	Halton		Signed
Jack Thompson	10/02/1993	Wansbeck		Signed
Clive Betts	10/02/1993	Sheffield, Attercliffe		Signed
John Gunnell	10/02/1993	Leeds South and Morley		Signed
Paul Flynn	10/02/1993	Newport West		Signed
Derek Enright	10/02/1993	Hemsworth		Signed
Ian Davidson	10/02/1993	Glasgow, Govan		Signed
Michael Clapham	10/02/1993	Barnsley West & Penistone		Signed
Ken Livingstone	10/02/1993	Brent East		Signed
Eric Illsley	10/02/1993	Barnsley Central		Signed
Gerry Bermingham	15/02/1993	St Helens South		Signed
Roland Boyes	15/02/1993	Houghton and Washington		Signed
David Winnick	17/02/1993	Walsall North		Signed
Jim Cunningham	17/02/1993	Coventry South East		Signed
Ann Coffey	17/02/1993	Stockport		Signed
Dale Campbell-Savours	17/02/1993	Workington		Signed
Stan Orme	17/02/1993	Salford East		Signed
Alan Milburn	17/02/1993	Darlington		Signed
Thomas McAvoy	17/02/1993	Glasgow, Rutherglen		Signed
Michael Martin	17/02/1993	Glasgow, Springburn		Signed
Jim Marshall	17/02/1993	Leicester South		Signed
Robert Litherland	17/02/1993	Manchester Central		Signed
David Clelland	18/02/1993	Tyne Bridge		Signed
Terry Davis	18/02/1993	Birmingham, Hodge Hill		Signed
Nick Ainger	18/02/1993	Pembroke		Signed
Graham Allen	18/02/1993	Nottingham North		Signed
Mike Hall	18/02/1993	Warrington South		Signed
Tony Banks	18/02/1993	Newham North West		Signed
Robert Wareing	18/02/1993	Liverpool, West Derby		Signed
Chris Mullin	18/02/1993	Sunderland South		Signed
Estelle Morris	18/02/1993	Birmingham, Yardley		Signed
John Maxton	18/02/1993	Glasgow, Cathcart		Signed
Ken Purchase	18/02/1993	Wolverhampton North East		Signed
Martin Redmond	18/02/1993	Don Valley		Signed
Barbara Roche	18/02/1993	Hornsey & Wood Green		Signed
Peter Snape	18/02/1993	West Bromwich East		Signed
Nick Harvey	18/02/1993	North Devon		Signed
Helen Jackson	18/02/1993	Sheffield, Hillsborough		Signed
Peter Mandelson	18/02/1993	Hartlepool		Signed
Tony Lloyd	19/02/1993	Stretford		Signed
Stephen Byers	22/02/1993	Wallsend		Signed
Alex Carlile	22/02/1993	Montgomery		Signed
Gwyneth Dunwoody	22/02/1993	Crewe & Nantwich		Signed
Derek Fatchett	22/02/1993	Leeds Central		Signed
Bruce George	22/02/1993	Walsall South		Signed
Roger Berry	22/02/1993	Kingswood		Signed
Keith Vaz	22/02/1993	Leicester East		Signed
Mike Watson	22/02/1993	Glasgow Central		Signed
Alan Williams	22/02/1993	Swansea West		Signed
Richard Burden	22/02/1993	Birmingham, Northfield		Signed
Edward O'Hara	22/02/1993	Knowsley South		Signed
Nigel Griffiths	22/02/1993	Edinburgh South		Signed
Max Madden	22/02/1993	Bradford West		Signed
Joyce Quin	22/02/1993	Gateshead East		Signed
Stuart Randall	22/02/1993	Kingston upon Hull West		Signed
Rachel Squire	22/02/1993	Dunfermline West		Signed
John Heppell	22/02/1993	Nottingham East		Signed
George Howarth	22/02/1993	Knowsley North		Signed
Alf Morris	22/02/1993	Manchester Wythenshawe		Signed
George Mudie	22/02/1993	Leeds East		Signed
Doug Hoyle	23/02/1993	Warrington North		Signed
Joe Ashton	25/02/1993	Bassetlaw		Signed
Tommy Graham	25/02/1993	Renfrew West and Inverclyde		Signed
Bob Cryer	25/02/1993	Bradford South		Signed
Jean Corston	25/02/1993	Bristol East		Signed
Tessa Jowell	25/02/1993	Dulwich		Signed
John Spellar	25/02/1993	Warley West		Signed
Greg Pope	25/02/1993	Hyndburn		Signed
Bill Olner	05/03/1993	Nuneaton		Signed
Llin Golding	05/03/1993	Newcastle-under-Lyme		Signed
Kevin Barron	05/03/1993	Rother Valley		Signed
Stuart Bell	05/03/1993	Middlesbrough		Signed
Dennis Turner	05/03/1993	Wolverhampton South East		Signed
Joan Walley	05/03/1993	Stoke-on-Trent North		Signed
John McWilliam	05/03/1993	Blaydon		Signed
Norman Hogg	05/03/1993	Cumbernauld & Kilsyth		Signed
Tom Pendry	05/03/1993	Stalybridge & Hyde		Signed
John Reid	05/03/1993	Motherwell North		Signed
Joan Ruddock	05/03/1993	Lewisham, Deptford		Signed
Brian Sedgemore	05/03/1993	Hackney South & Shoreditch		Signed
Clare Short	05/03/1993	Birmingham, Ladywood		Signed
Keith Hill	05/03/1993	Streatham		Signed
Mike Gapes	11/03/1993	Ilford South		Signed
Jon Owen Jones	Unknown			Withdrawn
Martyn Jones	Unknown			Withdrawn
Kim Howells	Unknown			Withdrawn
Frank Cook	Unknown			Withdrawn

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