Future Of The Post Office

EDM number 241 in 1993-94, proposed by Peter Hain on 13/12/1993.

That this House notes the unprecedented strong language of Post Office Chairman Mike Heron and Chief Executive Bill Cockburn when criticising the Government for delaying its decision on the future of the Post Office; agrees that a sense of crisis is growing within the Post Office, with cuts in investment and huge increases in the external finance limit as the price paid by both the Post Office and its customers for Government mismanagement; recognises that the comments of the Chairman and Chief Executive are born out of utter frustration; and urges the Government to admit its plans to privatise the Post Office are not only misplaced dogma but massively unpopular and should be abandoned forthwith, instead giving the Post Office the commercial freedom within the public sector which management and unions have jointly demanded so that the British Post Office can become the leading force in an increasingly competitive and global mail market. (Relevant registered interest declared).

This motion has been signed by a total of 102 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Peter Hain	13/12/1993	Neath		Proposed
Joe Benton	13/12/1993	Bootle		Signed
Graham Allen	13/12/1993	Nottingham North		Signed
Michael Connarty	13/12/1993	Falkirk East		Signed
Estelle Morris	13/12/1993	Birmingham, Yardley		Signed
John McWilliam	13/12/1993	Blaydon		Signed
Kate Hoey	13/12/1993	Vauxhall		Signed
Chris Smith	13/12/1993	Islington South & Finsbury		Signed
Harry Cohen	14/12/1993	Leyton		Signed
John Cummings	14/12/1993	Easington		Signed
Terry Davis	14/12/1993	Birmingham, Hodge Hill		Signed
Jim Dowd	14/12/1993	Lewisham West		Signed
John Evans	14/12/1993	St Helens North		Signed
Win Griffiths	14/12/1993	Bridgend		Signed
Mike Hall	14/12/1993	Warrington South		Signed
Tony Banks	14/12/1993	Newham North West		Signed
Harry Barnes	14/12/1993	North East Derbyshire		Signed
John Battle	14/12/1993	Leeds West		Signed
Hugh Bayley	14/12/1993	York, City of		Signed
Keith Vaz	14/12/1993	Leicester East		Signed
Eric Clarke	14/12/1993	Midlothian		Signed
Ronnie Campbell	14/12/1993	Blyth Valley		Signed
Keith Bradley	14/12/1993	Manchester, Withington		Signed
Colin Pickthall	14/12/1993	West Lancashire		Signed
Ernie Ross	14/12/1993	Dundee West		Signed
Jimmy Hood	14/12/1993	Clydesdale		Signed
Roy Hughes	14/12/1993	Newport East		Signed
Lynne Jones	14/12/1993	Birmingham, Selly Oak		Signed
Eddie Loyden	14/12/1993	Liverpool, Garston		Signed
Alice Mahon	14/12/1993	Halifax		Signed
Bill Michie	14/12/1993	Sheffield, Heeley		Signed
Alan Meale	14/12/1993	Mansfield		Signed
William McKelvey	14/12/1993	Kilmarnock & Loudoun		Signed
Ian McCartney	14/12/1993	Makerfield		Signed
John McAllion	14/12/1993	Dundee East		Signed
Ann Coffey	15/12/1993	Stockport		Signed
Jeremy Corbyn	15/12/1993	Islington North		Signed
Jean Corston	15/12/1993	Bristol East		Signed
Lawrence Cunliffe	15/12/1993	Leigh		Signed
Ian Davidson	15/12/1993	Glasgow, Govan		Signed
Derek Enright	15/12/1993	Hemsworth		Signed
Maria Fyfe	15/12/1993	Glasgow, Maryhill		Signed
Neil Gerrard	15/12/1993	Walthamstow		Signed
Gerry Steinberg	15/12/1993	Durham, City of		Signed
Paddy Tipping	15/12/1993	Sherwood		Signed
Mike Watson	15/12/1993	Glasgow Central		Signed
David Clelland	15/12/1993	Tyne Bridge		Signed
Michael Clapham	15/12/1993	Barnsley West & Penistone		Signed
Richard Burden	15/12/1993	Birmingham, Northfield		Signed
Robert Parry	15/12/1993	Liverpool, Riverside		Signed
Bridget Prentice	15/12/1993	Lewisham East		Signed
Gordon Prentice	15/12/1993	Pendle		Signed
Martin Redmond	15/12/1993	Don Valley		Signed
Dennis Skinner	15/12/1993	Bolsover		Signed
Peter Hardy	15/12/1993	Wentworth		Signed
Eric Illsley	15/12/1993	Barnsley Central		Signed
Glenda Jackson	15/12/1993	Hampstead & Highgate		Signed
Barry Jones	15/12/1993	Alyn & Deeside		Signed
Ken Livingstone	15/12/1993	Brent East		Signed
Edward O'Hara	15/12/1993	Knowsley South		Signed
Donald Anderson	16/12/1993	Swansea East		Signed
Clive Betts	16/12/1993	Sheffield, Attercliffe		Signed
Jack Thompson	16/12/1993	Wansbeck		Signed
Jim Wallace	16/12/1993	Orkney & Shetland		Signed
John Gunnell	16/12/1993	Leeds South and Morley		Signed
Andrew Faulds	16/12/1993	Warley East		Signed
Elfyn Llwyd	16/12/1993	Meirionnydd Nant Conwy		Signed
John Hutton	16/12/1993	Barrow & Furness		Signed
John Spellar	16/12/1993	Warley West		Signed
Joan Ruddock	16/12/1993	Lewisham, Deptford		Signed
Llin Golding	17/12/1993	Newcastle-under-Lyme		Signed
Mike Gapes	17/12/1993	Ilford South		Signed
Keith Hill	17/12/1993	Streatham		Signed
Tom Cox	11/01/1994	Tooting		Signed
John Denham	11/01/1994	Southampton, Itchen		Signed
Andrew MacKinlay	12/01/1994	Thurrock		Signed
Calum MacDonald	12/01/1994	Na h-Eileanan an Iar		Signed
Simon Hughes	12/01/1994	Southwark and Bermondsey		Signed
Geoff Hoon	12/01/1994	Ashfield		Signed
John Heppell	12/01/1994	Nottingham East		Signed
Terry Patchett	12/01/1994	Barnsley East		Signed
Nigel Griffiths	12/01/1994	Edinburgh South		Signed
Anne Campbell	13/01/1994	Cambridge		Signed
John McFall	13/01/1994	Dumbarton		Signed
Nigel Jones	13/01/1994	Cheltenham		Signed
Malcolm Bruce	14/01/1994	Gordon		Signed
Gareth Wardell	19/01/1994	Gower		Signed
Greg Pope	25/01/1994	Hyndburn		Signed
Roger Godsiff	26/01/1994	Birmingham Small Heath		Signed
Andrew Miller	27/01/1994	Ellesmere Port & Neston		Signed
Paul Boateng	28/01/1994	Brent South		Signed
Denzil Davies	02/02/1994	Llanelli		Signed
Alan Simpson	03/02/1994	Nottingham South		Signed
Roland Boyes	03/02/1994	Houghton and Washington		Signed
Dale Campbell-Savours	03/02/1994	Workington		Signed
Tommy Graham	03/02/1994	Renfrew West and Inverclyde		Signed
William McCrea	04/02/1994	Mid Ulster		Signed
Martyn Jones	08/02/1994	Clwyd South West		Signed
Alex Salmond	11/02/1994	Banff & Buchan		Signed
Kim Howells	23/02/1994	Pontypridd		Signed
Tony Wright	23/02/1994	Cannock and Burntwood		Signed
Audrey Wise	29/03/1994	Preston		Signed

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