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Conduct Of Lord Walker (No. 2)

EDM number 1684 in 1992-93, proposed by Rhodri Morgan on 24/03/1993.

That this House calls on the President of the Board of Trade to proceed no further with the appointment from 1st April of Lord Walker as Chairman of the Urban Regeneration Agency, nor as his adviser on job-creation in pit closure areas, because of the new evidence which has come to light with the publication on 17th March of the minutes of evidence and memoranda of the Committee of Public Accounts investigation into the 1991-92 Accounts of the Welsh Development Agency (HC, 1992-93, 353-i), where on pages 48 and 49 (Appendix 5) details are disclosed of merchant bankers Barclays de Zoete Wedd submitting a preliminary report to Lord Walker, then Secretary of State for Wales, on future options for increased private sector participation in the activities of the Welsh Development Agency and specifically to the choice between placing a majority of shares in the Agency with financial institutions together with a Stock Exchange listing, or on the other hand an outright flotation of all shares in the Agency, all knowledge of which privatisation proposals was denied by the self-same Secretary of State in the course of Welsh Questions on 17th July 1989, Official Report, column 5, when he gave the answer 'no Sir' followed by 'the honourable gentleman is totally wrong' to the question by the honourable Member for Carmarthen, asking specifically about the existence of discussions between Barclays de Zoete Wedd and the Agency and whether the agenda in those discussions included both possible 50-50 public-private structure and 'outright privatisation'.

This motion has been signed by a total of 44 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Rhodri Morgan24/03/1993Cardiff WestProposed
David Hanson24/03/1993DelynSigned
Alan Wynne Williams24/03/1993CarmarthenSigned
Peter Hain24/03/1993NeathSigned
Win Griffiths24/03/1993BridgendSigned
Paul Flynn24/03/1993Newport WestSigned
Paul Murphy24/03/1993TorfaenSigned
Alun Michael24/03/1993Cardiff South & PenarthSigned
Martyn Jones24/03/1993Clwyd South WestSigned
Jon Owen Jones24/03/1993Cardiff CentralSigned
Dennis Turner25/03/1993Wolverhampton South EastSigned
Harry Barnes25/03/1993North East DerbyshireSigned
Tony Banks25/03/1993Newham North WestSigned
Janet Anderson25/03/1993Rossendale & DarwenSigned
Derek Enright25/03/1993HemsworthSigned
Jim Dowd25/03/1993Lewisham WestSigned
Jeremy Corbyn25/03/1993Islington NorthSigned
Frank Cook25/03/1993Stockton NorthSigned
Bill Michie25/03/1993Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Eddie Loyden25/03/1993Liverpool, GarstonSigned
Ken Livingstone25/03/1993Brent EastSigned
Lynne Jones25/03/1993Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
Eric Illsley25/03/1993Barnsley CentralSigned
Roy Hughes25/03/1993Newport EastSigned
Dennis Skinner25/03/1993BolsoverSigned
Colin Pickthall25/03/1993West LancashireSigned
Alan Milburn25/03/1993DarlingtonSigned
Ernie Ross26/03/1993Dundee WestSigned
John McAllion26/03/1993Dundee EastSigned
William McKelvey26/03/1993Kilmarnock & LoudounSigned
Alex Carlile29/03/1993MontgomerySigned
James Wray29/03/1993Glasgow ProvanSigned
Mike Gapes29/03/1993Ilford SouthSigned
Jimmy Dunnachie29/03/1993Glasgow, PollokSigned
Harry Cohen29/03/1993LeytonSigned
Martin Redmond29/03/1993Don ValleySigned
Terry Lewis30/03/1993WorsleySigned
Michael Clapham30/03/1993Barnsley West & PenistoneSigned
Michael Connarty30/03/1993Falkirk EastSigned
Peter Pike31/03/1993BurnleySigned
Alice Mahon31/03/1993HalifaxSigned
Bob Cryer31/03/1993Bradford SouthSigned
Mike Hall31/03/1993Warrington SouthSigned
Alan Simpson01/04/1993Nottingham SouthSigned

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