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Leasehold Law Reform

EDM number 1554 in 1992-93, proposed by Nigel Griffiths on 09/03/1993.

That this House notes with dismay the failure of the Government to implement the recommendations of the 1988 Law Commission report to lift the burden of mediaeval privity law from small businesses and others; notes that people who have retired from business are now threatened with bankruptcy; notes that senior citizen Mr Harry Acaster and his wheelchair-using wife held a lease for a small baker's lock-up from 1984, re-assigned it with his landlord's full consent in 1987 and now finds himself threatened with bankruptcy by Mrs Fiona Burns-Brannan and Christopher Croft of the Plantotal Group, Merston Manor, Merstone, Isle of Wight who hold him responsible for non-payment by the re-assigned leaseholder and who, having extorted the Acasters' ú2,000 life savings are now forcing them to pay ú208 a month or to sign over their house on death with payment of ú8,000 plus 3 per cent. above the base rate and ú15,000 for maintenance, a total of ú40,000 for a lease with only six years to go; and urges the President of the Board of Trade to investigate this case and to take immediate action to repeal this draconian law.

This motion has been signed by a total of 58 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Nigel Griffiths09/03/1993Edinburgh SouthProposed
Kevin Hughes09/03/1993Doncaster NorthSigned
Tony Lloyd09/03/1993StretfordSigned
Malcolm Chisholm09/03/1993Edinburgh LeithSigned
Bob Cryer09/03/1993Bradford SouthSigned
Peter Hain09/03/1993NeathSigned
Stuart Bell09/03/1993MiddlesbroughSigned
Ann Coffey10/03/1993StockportSigned
Mike Watson10/03/1993Glasgow CentralSigned
Michael Connarty10/03/1993Falkirk EastSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe10/03/1993LeighSigned
Jim Dowd10/03/1993Lewisham WestSigned
John Evans10/03/1993St Helens NorthSigned
Mike Gapes10/03/1993Ilford SouthSigned
Norman Godman10/03/1993Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
John Gunnell10/03/1993Leeds South and MorleySigned
Mike Hall10/03/1993Warrington SouthSigned
Harry Barnes10/03/1993North East DerbyshireSigned
Ernie Ross10/03/1993Dundee WestSigned
Eric Clarke10/03/1993MidlothianSigned
Bridget Prentice10/03/1993Lewisham EastSigned
Peter Hardy10/03/1993WentworthSigned
Eric Illsley10/03/1993Barnsley CentralSigned
Ken Livingstone10/03/1993Brent EastSigned
John McAllion10/03/1993Dundee EastSigned
Ian McCartney10/03/1993MakerfieldSigned
William McKelvey10/03/1993Kilmarnock & LoudounSigned
Alan Meale10/03/1993MansfieldSigned
Bill Michie10/03/1993Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Michael Clapham10/03/1993Barnsley West & PenistoneSigned
John Cummings11/03/1993EasingtonSigned
Gerry Steinberg11/03/1993Durham, City ofSigned
John Battle11/03/1993Leeds WestSigned
Donald Anderson11/03/1993Swansea EastSigned
Win Griffiths11/03/1993BridgendSigned
Maria Fyfe11/03/1993Glasgow, MaryhillSigned
Derek Enright11/03/1993HemsworthSigned
Angela Eagle11/03/1993WallaseySigned
Jimmy Dunnachie11/03/1993Glasgow, PollokSigned
Jean Corston11/03/1993Bristol EastSigned
Harry Cohen11/03/1993LeytonSigned
Jamie Cann11/03/1993IpswichSigned
Terry Lewis11/03/1993WorsleySigned
Doug Hoyle11/03/1993Warrington NorthSigned
Jimmy Hood11/03/1993ClydesdaleSigned
Martin Redmond11/03/1993Don ValleySigned
Tom Cox11/03/1993TootingSigned
Keith Bradley12/03/1993Manchester, WithingtonSigned
Peter Pike15/03/1993BurnleySigned
Paul Flynn15/03/1993Newport WestSigned
Clive Soley15/03/1993HammersmithSigned
Eddie Loyden16/03/1993Liverpool, GarstonSigned
Jack Thompson16/03/1993WansbeckSigned
Audrey Wise17/03/1993PrestonSigned
Martyn Jones23/03/1993Clwyd South WestSigned
Frank Cook23/03/1993Stockton NorthSigned
John Fraser25/03/1993NorwoodSigned
Paul Boateng30/03/1993Brent SouthSigned

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