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Half Million Pound Payout To Former Severn Trent Chairman

EDM number 1457 in 1993-94, proposed by Richard Burden on 05/07/1994.

That this House deplores the half million pound payoff made to former Severn Trent Chairman, John Bellak, as revealed in the recently published accounts of the water company; notes that during his term of office, Mr Bellak ruthlessly promoted the privatisation of the water industry despite evidence that the majority of the public he was supposed to serve opposed the sell-off; further notes that Mr Bellak's remuneration since privatisation was boosted by a series of salary rises and by share option deals whilst water prices soared and public accountability diminished; believes that it is a disgrace that the water companies should be making multi-million pound profits and making large payoffs to top executives when pensioners and low income families cannot afford to pay their water bills; and demands that OFWAT take immediate action to protect consumers from the excesses of the private water companies.

This motion has been signed by a total of 107 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Richard Burden05/07/1994Birmingham, NorthfieldProposed
Mike O'Brien05/07/1994North WarwickshireSigned
Ken Purchase05/07/1994Wolverhampton North EastSigned
Joyce Quin05/07/1994Gateshead EastSigned
Terry Rooney05/07/1994Bradford NorthSigned
Alan Simpson05/07/1994Nottingham SouthSigned
John Spellar05/07/1994Warley WestSigned
Margaret Hodge05/07/1994BarkingSigned
Kate Hoey05/07/1994VauxhallSigned
Kevin Hughes05/07/1994Doncaster NorthSigned
John Hutton05/07/1994Barrow & FurnessSigned
Glenda Jackson05/07/1994Hampstead & HighgateSigned
Helen Jackson05/07/1994Sheffield, HillsboroughSigned
Lynne Jones05/07/1994Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
Tessa Jowell05/07/1994DulwichSigned
Jane Kennedy05/07/1994Liverpool BroadgreenSigned
Ken Livingstone05/07/1994Brent EastSigned
Tony Lloyd05/07/1994StretfordSigned
Bill Michie05/07/1994Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Alan Milburn05/07/1994DarlingtonSigned
Rhodri Morgan05/07/1994Cardiff WestSigned
Alf Morris05/07/1994Manchester WythenshaweSigned
Estelle Morris05/07/1994Birmingham, YardleySigned
Bill Olner05/07/1994NuneatonSigned
Keith Bradley05/07/1994Manchester, WithingtonSigned
Nick Brown05/07/1994Newcastle upon Tyne EastSigned
Anne Campbell05/07/1994CambridgeSigned
Judith Church05/07/1994DagenhamSigned
Michael Clapham05/07/1994Barnsley West & PenistoneSigned
Harry Cohen05/07/1994LeytonSigned
Robin Corbett05/07/1994Birmingham, ErdingtonSigned
Jeremy Corbyn05/07/1994Islington NorthSigned
Jean Corston05/07/1994Bristol EastSigned
Jim Cunningham05/07/1994Coventry South EastSigned
Terry Davis05/07/1994Birmingham, Hodge HillSigned
Angela Eagle05/07/1994WallaseySigned
Kenneth Eastham05/07/1994Manchester, BlackleySigned
Mark Fisher05/07/1994Stoke-on-Trent CentralSigned
Llin Golding05/07/1994Newcastle-under-LymeSigned
Nick Ainger05/07/1994PembrokeSigned
Win Griffiths05/07/1994BridgendSigned
Bruce Grocott05/07/1994Wrekin, TheSigned
John Gunnell05/07/1994Leeds South and MorleySigned
Peter Hain05/07/1994NeathSigned
John Battle05/07/1994Leeds WestSigned
Hugh Bayley05/07/1994York, City ofSigned
Roger Berry05/07/1994KingswoodSigned
Clive Betts05/07/1994Sheffield, AttercliffeSigned
Dennis Turner05/07/1994Wolverhampton South EastSigned
Joan Walley05/07/1994Stoke-on-Trent NorthSigned
Mike Watson05/07/1994Glasgow CentralSigned
Malcolm Wicks05/07/1994Croydon North WestSigned
David Winnick05/07/1994Walsall NorthSigned
Tony Wright05/07/1994Cannock and BurntwoodSigned
Gordon Prentice06/07/1994PendleSigned
Barbara Roche06/07/1994Hornsey & Wood GreenSigned
Ernie Ross06/07/1994Dundee WestSigned
Roy Hughes06/07/1994Newport EastSigned
Eric Illsley06/07/1994Barnsley CentralSigned
Eddie Loyden06/07/1994Liverpool, GarstonSigned
John McAllion06/07/1994Dundee EastSigned
Ian McCartney06/07/1994MakerfieldSigned
William McKelvey06/07/1994Kilmarnock & LoudounSigned
David Clelland06/07/1994Tyne BridgeSigned
Michael Connarty06/07/1994Falkirk EastSigned
John Cummings06/07/1994EasingtonSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe06/07/1994LeighSigned
Jim Dowd06/07/1994Lewisham WestSigned
Jimmy Dunnachie06/07/1994Glasgow, PollokSigned
John Evans06/07/1994St Helens NorthSigned
Norman Godman06/07/1994Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
Tommy Graham06/07/1994Renfrew West and InverclydeSigned
Hilary Armstrong06/07/1994North West DurhamSigned
Harry Barnes06/07/1994North East DerbyshireSigned
Gerry Steinberg06/07/1994Durham, City ofSigned
Paddy Tipping06/07/1994SherwoodSigned
Peter Pike07/07/1994BurnleySigned
Bridget Prentice07/07/1994Lewisham EastSigned
Jeff Rooker07/07/1994Birmingham, Perry BarrSigned
Llew Smith07/07/1994Blaenau GwentSigned
Robert Hughes07/07/1994Aberdeen NorthSigned
Denis MacShane07/07/1994RotherhamSigned
Dale Campbell-Savours07/07/1994WorkingtonSigned
Tom Cox07/07/1994TootingSigned
Ian Davidson07/07/1994Glasgow, GovanSigned
Derek Enright07/07/1994HemsworthSigned
Paul Flynn07/07/1994Newport WestSigned
Peter Hardy11/07/1994WentworthSigned
Greville Janner11/07/1994Leicester WestSigned
Janet Anderson11/07/1994Rossendale & DarwenSigned
Colin Pickthall12/07/1994West LancashireSigned
Robert Litherland12/07/1994Manchester CentralSigned
James Callaghan12/07/1994Heywood & MiddletonSigned
Andrew Faulds12/07/1994Warley EastSigned
Nigel Griffiths13/07/1994Edinburgh SouthSigned
Alan Meale13/07/1994MansfieldSigned
Eric Clarke13/07/1994MidlothianSigned
Mike Hall13/07/1994Warrington SouthSigned
Robert Wareing13/07/1994Liverpool, West DerbySigned
Bill Etherington14/07/1994Sunderland NorthSigned
Audrey Wise14/07/1994PrestonSigned
Max Madden18/07/1994Bradford WestSigned
Jack Thompson19/07/1994WansbeckSigned
Robert Parry20/07/1994Liverpool, RiversideSigned
Mike Gapes20/07/1994Ilford SouthSigned
Nick Harvey21/07/1994North DevonSigned
John Heppell21/07/1994Nottingham EastSigned

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