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Foundation For Business Responsibilities

EDM number 2383 in 1992-93, proposed by Ken Livingstone on 22/07/1993.

That this House calls for a full inquiry into the Foundation for Business Responsibilities, a bogus charity run by the right-wing pressure group, the Aims of Industry, and to investigate the roles of Sir Nigel Mobbs and Michael Ivens, who have been respectively the Chairman and Director of both organisations, into the slush-fund which laundered money through the Foundation for Business Responsibilities to pay for a political campaign managed by the public relations firm Marketforce Communications before the 1990 local elections; notes that Sir Nigel Mobbs is the chief executive of the property company Slough Estates which has donated handsomely to the Tory Party, the Aims of Industry and the Economic League; notes that Dame Shirley Porter used the Foundation for Business Responsibilities to launder cash, firstly from Gerald Ronson and other businessmen for a campaign against the Greater London Council in the mid-1980s, and secondly, from the slush-fund she and her advisers had set up for the Marketforce campaign before the 1990 local elections; and calls on Westminster Council Tories to reveal who donated to this ú98,000 election slush-fund.

This motion has been signed by a total of 30 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Ken Livingstone22/07/1993Brent EastProposed
Dennis Skinner23/07/1993BolsoverSigned
Audrey Wise23/07/1993PrestonSigned
Harry Barnes23/07/1993North East DerbyshireSigned
Norman Godman23/07/1993Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
Jimmy Dunnachie23/07/1993Glasgow, PollokSigned
John Cummings23/07/1993EasingtonSigned
Frank Cook23/07/1993Stockton NorthSigned
Eric Clarke23/07/1993MidlothianSigned
Ronnie Campbell23/07/1993Blyth ValleySigned
Chris Mullin23/07/1993Sunderland SouthSigned
Bill Michie23/07/1993Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Alan Meale23/07/1993MansfieldSigned
Eddie Loyden23/07/1993Liverpool, GarstonSigned
Lynne Jones23/07/1993Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
Clive Soley26/07/1993HammersmithSigned
Jack Thompson26/07/1993WansbeckSigned
Janet Anderson26/07/1993Rossendale & DarwenSigned
John Gunnell26/07/1993Leeds South and MorleySigned
Jim Dowd26/07/1993Lewisham WestSigned
Michael Clapham26/07/1993Barnsley West & PenistoneSigned
Rhodri Morgan26/07/1993Cardiff WestSigned
Ian McCartney26/07/1993MakerfieldSigned
Eric Illsley26/07/1993Barnsley CentralSigned
Peter Pike27/07/1993BurnleySigned
Bill Etherington27/07/1993Sunderland NorthSigned
Mike Hall18/10/1993Warrington SouthSigned
John Evans19/10/1993St Helens NorthSigned
Andrew Faulds19/10/1993Warley EastSigned
Michael Connarty20/10/1993Falkirk EastSigned

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