Beer Smuggling

EDM number 165 in 1993-94, proposed by Alan Meale on 02/12/1993.

That this House views with concern the activities of companies and individuals directly involved in organised smuggling operations connected with the importation into Britain of beer products for resale, which have not either been charged the correct levels of United Kingdom excise duty or tax rates; is alarmed that personal imports including this illegal trade already accounts for 15 per cent. of total 'off' beer sales in Britain, equal to the supplies for approximately 4, 000 average sized pubs, or the actual production of two or more of the major regional brewers; notes that currently half a million people in the United Kingdom are directly employed in beer production, retailing and its distribution, with approximately the same number indirectly in other related operations; notes also that the industry's current total tax payment on its sales, excise duties, VAT and other taxes to the Treasury is approximately ú12 billion per annum; and calls upon Her Majesty's Government to recognise the seriousness of such smuggling activities which, unless tackled, will lead to pub and brewery closures in the United Kingdom, loss of jobs, trade, investment, increased prices to the consumer and less revenue to the Exchequer.

This motion has been signed by a total of 136 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Alan Meale	02/12/1993	Mansfield		Proposed
Michael Fabricant	02/12/1993	Staffordshire Mid		Signed
Bill Etherington	02/12/1993	Sunderland North		Signed
Donald Dixon	02/12/1993	Jarrow		Signed
James Kilfedder	02/12/1993	North Down		Signed
Martin Redmond	02/12/1993	Don Valley		Signed
James Wray	06/12/1993	Glasgow Provan		Signed
Harry Barnes	06/12/1993	North East Derbyshire		Signed
Tommy Graham	06/12/1993	Renfrew West and Inverclyde		Signed
Jim Dowd	06/12/1993	Lewisham West		Signed
Lawrence Cunliffe	06/12/1993	Leigh		Signed
Alex Carlile	06/12/1993	Montgomery		Signed
David Knox	06/12/1993	Staffordshire Moorlands		Signed
Jimmy Hood	06/12/1993	Clydesdale		Signed
Peter Hardy	06/12/1993	Wentworth		Signed
Richard Caborn	07/12/1993	Sheffield Central		Signed
Ronnie Campbell	07/12/1993	Blyth Valley		Signed
Eric Clarke	07/12/1993	Midlothian		Signed
Harry Cohen	07/12/1993	Leyton		Signed
John Cummings	07/12/1993	Easington		Signed
Jimmy Dunnachie	07/12/1993	Glasgow, Pollok		Signed
Neil Gerrard	07/12/1993	Walthamstow		Signed
Irene Adams	07/12/1993	Paisley North		Signed
Hugh Bayley	07/12/1993	York, City of		Signed
Keith Bradley	07/12/1993	Manchester, Withington		Signed
George Mudie	07/12/1993	Leeds East		Signed
Colin Pickthall	07/12/1993	West Lancashire		Signed
Terry Patchett	07/12/1993	Barnsley East		Signed
Ernie Ross	07/12/1993	Dundee West		Signed
John Heppell	07/12/1993	Nottingham East		Signed
Geoff Hoon	07/12/1993	Ashfield		Signed
Kevin Hughes	07/12/1993	Doncaster North		Signed
Ken Livingstone	07/12/1993	Brent East		Signed
John McAllion	07/12/1993	Dundee East		Signed
William McKelvey	07/12/1993	Kilmarnock & Loudoun		Signed
Michael Colvin	08/12/1993	Romsey and Waterside		Signed
John Evans	08/12/1993	St Helens North		Signed
Win Griffiths	08/12/1993	Bridgend		Signed
John Gunnell	08/12/1993	Leeds South and Morley		Signed
Jack Thompson	08/12/1993	Wansbeck		Signed
Michael Clapham	08/12/1993	Barnsley West & Penistone		Signed
Edward O'Hara	08/12/1993	Knowsley South		Signed
Ian McCartney	08/12/1993	Makerfield		Signed
David Marshall	08/12/1993	Glasgow, Shettleston		Signed
Eric Illsley	08/12/1993	Barnsley Central		Signed
George Howarth	08/12/1993	Knowsley North		Signed
Greg Pope	08/12/1993	Hyndburn		Signed
Jean Corston	09/12/1993	Bristol East		Signed
Geoffrey Robinson	09/12/1993	Coventry North West		Signed
Janet Anderson	10/12/1993	Rossendale & Darwen		Signed
Nick Harvey	13/12/1993	North Devon		Signed
Mike Hall	14/12/1993	Warrington South		Signed
Tim Rathbone	16/12/1993	Lewes		Signed
Mike Gapes	17/12/1993	Ilford South		Signed
Peter Hordern	11/01/1994	Horsham		Signed
Gareth Wardell	11/01/1994	Gower		Signed
Paul Tyler	11/01/1994	North Cornwall		Signed
David Alton	11/01/1994	Liverpool Mossley Hill		Signed
John Denham	11/01/1994	Southampton, Itchen		Signed
Julian Brazier	11/01/1994	Canterbury		Signed
Alf Morris	11/01/1994	Manchester Wythenshawe		Signed
Michael Mates	11/01/1994	East Hampshire		Signed
Jon Owen Jones	11/01/1994	Cardiff Central		Signed
Barry Jones	11/01/1994	Alyn & Deeside		Signed
Peter Griffiths	12/01/1994	Portsmouth North		Signed
Neil Kinnock	12/01/1994	Islwyn		Signed
Doug Hoyle	12/01/1994	Warrington North		Signed
David Shaw	12/01/1994	Dover		Signed
Gordon Prentice	12/01/1994	Pendle		Signed
Martyn Jones	13/01/1994	Clwyd South West		Signed
Nigel Jones	13/01/1994	Cheltenham		Signed
Liz Lynne	13/01/1994	Rochdale		Signed
James Couchman	13/01/1994	Gillingham		Signed
Geoffrey Dickens	13/01/1994	Littleborough and Saddleworth		Signed
Michael Stephen	13/01/1994	Shoreham		Signed
Michael Stern	13/01/1994	Bristol North West		Signed
Winston Churchill	14/01/1994	Davyhulme		Signed
James Spicer	17/01/1994	West Dorset		Signed
James Hill	17/01/1994	Southampton, Test		Signed
David Mitchell	17/01/1994	North West Hampshire		Signed
Rhodri Morgan	17/01/1994	Cardiff West		Signed
Gwyneth Dunwoody	17/01/1994	Crewe & Nantwich		Signed
Peggy Fenner	17/01/1994	Medway		Signed
Gerry Bermingham	18/01/1994	St Helens South		Signed
Stephen Day	18/01/1994	Cheadle		Signed
Roger Moate	18/01/1994	Faversham		Signed
Helen Jackson	18/01/1994	Sheffield, Hillsborough		Signed
Nick Hawkins	18/01/1994	Blackpool South		Signed
Peter Pike	19/01/1994	Burnley		Signed
Kim Howells	19/01/1994	Pontypridd		Signed
Keith Hampson	19/01/1994	Leeds North West		Signed
Roy Beggs	19/01/1994	East Antrim		Signed
Clive Betts	19/01/1994	Sheffield, Attercliffe		Signed
Stan Orme	20/01/1994	Salford East		Signed
Paul Murphy	20/01/1994	Torfaen		Signed
Bill Michie	20/01/1994	Sheffield, Heeley		Signed
Robert Hicks	21/01/1994	South East Cornwall		Signed
Paul Marland	24/01/1994	Gloucestershire West		Signed
Ivan Lawrence	25/01/1994	Burton		Signed
Llin Golding	25/01/1994	Newcastle-under-Lyme		Signed
Peter Hain	25/01/1994	Neath		Signed
Malcolm Thornton	26/01/1994	Crosby		Signed
Elfyn Llwyd	26/01/1994	Meirionnydd Nant Conwy		Signed
Roy Hughes	26/01/1994	Newport East		Signed
Giles Shaw	27/01/1994	Pudsey		Signed
Don Foster	27/01/1994	Bath		Signed
Jack Aspinwall	02/02/1994	Wansdyke		Signed
Bill O'Brien	03/02/1994	Normanton		Signed
Roland Boyes	03/02/1994	Houghton and Washington		Signed
Ann Coffey	08/02/1994	Stockport		Signed
Brian H Donohoe	08/02/1994	Cunninghame South		Signed
George Gardiner	09/02/1994	Reigate		Signed
George Foulkes	09/02/1994	Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley		Signed
David Rendel	10/02/1994	Newbury		Signed
Phil Gallie	10/02/1994	Ayr		Signed
Brian Wilson	10/02/1994	Cunninghame North		Signed
Alex Salmond	11/02/1994	Banff & Buchan		Signed
Tony Worthington	15/02/1994	Clydebank & Milngavie		Signed
Harry Greenway	09/03/1994	Ealing North		Signed
Michael Martin	10/03/1994	Glasgow, Springburn		Signed
Andrew Bowden	30/03/1994	Brighton, Kemptown		Signed
Michael Alison	22/04/1994	Selby		Signed
Audrey Wise	28/04/1994	Preston		Signed
Bridget Prentice	09/05/1994	Lewisham East		Signed
Clive Soley	09/05/1994	Hammersmith		Signed
Piara S Khabra	09/05/1994	Ealing, Southall		Signed
Vivian Bendall	10/05/1994	Ilford North		Signed
Diana Maddock	10/05/1994	Christchurch		Signed
Tessa Jowell	10/05/1994	Dulwich		Signed
Kate Hoey	11/05/1994	Vauxhall		Signed
Alan Keen	11/05/1994	Feltham & Heston		Signed
Nigel Forman	17/05/1994	Carshalton & Wallington		Signed
Rhodes Boyson	18/05/1994	Brent North		Signed
Paul Boateng	14/06/1994	Brent South		Signed
Mark Wolfson	25/10/1994	Sevenoaks		Signed
Jimmy Boyce	Unknown			Withdrawn

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