Government Action On Timeshare Fraudsters

EDM number 1776 in 1992-93, proposed by Nigel Griffiths on 16/04/1993.

That this House regrets that the Office of Fair Trading cannot protect victims of Laurence Werner and Simon Clarke of Club Riviera group timeshare companies from deceiving timeshare customers because of the failure of the Government to implement its 1990 report on trading malpractices; regrets that the Government has failed for four years to legislate to prevent Club Riviera's deceitful practices like offering worthless guarantees to buy back properties and the buy-sell scam, and unconscionable practices like conning elderly people into buying timeshare on the 6th floor without any lifts; notes that in spite of the withdrawal of consumer credit licences in July 1992 Werner and Clarke continued to sell timeshare and offer credit card facilities, and that the DTI has received the names of 2,000 victims of Werner & Clarke; congratulates American Express for refusing to accept credit card payments for Club Riviera companies but deplores the willingness of Barclaycard, Access and Mastercard to continue to bolster the criminal activities of Werner and Clarke; calls on the I.C.S.T.I.S. to investigate the use of premium rate telephone lines by Club Riviera companies to deal with consumer complaints; notes Club Riviera companies fail to pay fines and utilise their shell creditor company Macintosh Associates to escape bailiffs seeking settlement of county court judgements; deplores the Government's failure to act on EDM 888 from 1992 to protect existing timeshare customers and the public from Werner & Clarke's malpractice; and calls on the Government to bring Werner and Clarke and their associates to justice.

This motion has been signed by a total of 72 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Nigel Griffiths	16/04/1993	Edinburgh South		Proposed
Tom Cox	19/04/1993	Tooting		Signed
John Cummings	19/04/1993	Easington		Signed
Lawrence Cunliffe	19/04/1993	Leigh		Signed
Jim Dowd	19/04/1993	Lewisham West		Signed
Jimmy Dunnachie	19/04/1993	Glasgow, Pollok		Signed
John Evans	19/04/1993	St Helens North		Signed
Harry Barnes	19/04/1993	North East Derbyshire		Signed
Paddy Tipping	19/04/1993	Sherwood		Signed
Joan Walley	19/04/1993	Stoke-on-Trent North		Signed
Michael Connarty	19/04/1993	Falkirk East		Signed
William McKelvey	19/04/1993	Kilmarnock & Loudoun		Signed
Robert Parry	19/04/1993	Liverpool, Riverside		Signed
Martin Redmond	19/04/1993	Don Valley		Signed
Ernie Ross	19/04/1993	Dundee West		Signed
Peter Hardy	19/04/1993	Wentworth		Signed
Helen Jackson	19/04/1993	Sheffield, Hillsborough		Signed
Lynne Jones	19/04/1993	Birmingham, Selly Oak		Signed
Ken Livingstone	19/04/1993	Brent East		Signed
Alice Mahon	19/04/1993	Halifax		Signed
John McAllion	19/04/1993	Dundee East		Signed
Gordon Oakes	20/04/1993	Halton		Signed
Eric Clarke	20/04/1993	Midlothian		Signed
David Clelland	20/04/1993	Tyne Bridge		Signed
Ian Davidson	20/04/1993	Glasgow, Govan		Signed
Maria Fyfe	20/04/1993	Glasgow, Maryhill		Signed
Jack Thompson	20/04/1993	Wansbeck		Signed
Dennis Turner	20/04/1993	Wolverhampton South East		Signed
Gareth Wardell	20/04/1993	Gower		Signed
Alan Meale	20/04/1993	Mansfield		Signed
Terry Lewis	20/04/1993	Worsley		Signed
Mike O'Brien	20/04/1993	North Warwickshire		Signed
Colin Pickthall	20/04/1993	West Lancashire		Signed
Greg Pope	20/04/1993	Hyndburn		Signed
Barbara Roche	20/04/1993	Hornsey & Wood Green		Signed
John Heppell	20/04/1993	Nottingham East		Signed
Jimmy Hood	20/04/1993	Clydesdale		Signed
Kim Howells	20/04/1993	Pontypridd		Signed
Joan Lestor	20/04/1993	Eccles		Signed
Harry Cohen	21/04/1993	Leyton		Signed
Jean Corston	21/04/1993	Bristol East		Signed
Kenneth Eastham	21/04/1993	Manchester, Blackley		Signed
Tommy Graham	21/04/1993	Renfrew West and Inverclyde		Signed
Janet Anderson	21/04/1993	Rossendale & Darwen		Signed
Ann Coffey	21/04/1993	Stockport		Signed
Edward O'Hara	21/04/1993	Knowsley South		Signed
Jon Owen Jones	21/04/1993	Cardiff Central		Signed
Barry Jones	21/04/1993	Alyn & Deeside		Signed
Eric Illsley	21/04/1993	Barnsley Central		Signed
John Hutton	21/04/1993	Barrow & Furness		Signed
Bridget Prentice	21/04/1993	Lewisham East		Signed
David Hanson	21/04/1993	Delyn		Signed
Win Griffiths	22/04/1993	Bridgend		Signed
Bill Etherington	22/04/1993	Sunderland North		Signed
Stephen Byers	22/04/1993	Wallsend		Signed
Austin Mitchell	22/04/1993	Great Grimsby		Signed
Ian McCartney	22/04/1993	Makerfield		Signed
Alan Simpson	22/04/1993	Nottingham South		Signed
Rhodri Morgan	23/04/1993	Cardiff West		Signed
Alex Carlile	26/04/1993	Montgomery		Signed
Alan Milburn	27/04/1993	Darlington		Signed
Michael Clapham	27/04/1993	Barnsley West & Penistone		Signed
Gerry Steinberg	27/04/1993	Durham, City of		Signed
Mike Hall	28/04/1993	Warrington South		Signed
Bill Michie	28/04/1993	Sheffield, Heeley		Signed
Elfyn Llwyd	28/04/1993	Meirionnydd Nant Conwy		Signed
Adam Ingram	28/04/1993	East Kilbride		Signed
Diane Abbott	06/05/1993	Hackney North & Stoke Newington		Signed
John Gunnell	10/05/1993	Leeds South and Morley		Signed
Jo Richardson	12/05/1993	Barking		Signed
Audrey Wise	26/05/1993	Preston		Signed
Eric Martlew	08/06/1993	Carlisle		Signed

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