Compensation For Redundant Astra Employees
EDM number 478 in 1993-94, proposed by Harry Barnes on 27/01/1994.
That this House notes the contradictions between the Government's claims to high standards of decency in the public services and how those employed by the privatised Astra Training Network were treated when Astra went into receivership in 1993; believes that the Government has demonstrated double standards and double dealing in claiming, on the one hand, that the clean break nature of Astra's privatisation in 1990 absolved them of liability for the employees and, on the other hand, making a decision, just prior to the 1992 general election, to make a payment of ú1.2 million to keep Astra afloat; is appalled at the admission in a letter of 8th January from the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department of Employment to the honourable Member for North East Derbyshire that while 'the purchasers of skillcentres were bound by the terms of the sale to make pension provision' (including redundancy payments) 'broadly comparable to that applicable to the civil servants transferred to them, 'there is, however, no legal barrier to an employer seeking to make changes to staff's terms and conditions at any time'; recognises that Astra's closure involved considerable suffering for employees who were transferred, often without effective choice, from the Civil Service and whose previous terms of employment had been seriously undermined; believes that redundancy payments were substantially inferior to those available if Astra employees had still been entitled to Civil Service conditions; and urges the Government to urgently examine the question of ex-gratia compensation to redundant Astra employees.
This motion has been signed by a total of 67 MPs.
MP | Date | Constituency | Party | Type |
Harry Barnes | 27/01/1994 | North East Derbyshire | | Proposed |
Ken Livingstone | 28/01/1994 | Brent East | | Signed |
Michael Connarty | 31/01/1994 | Falkirk East | | Signed |
Harold Walker | 31/01/1994 | Doncaster Central | | Signed |
Nick Ainger | 31/01/1994 | Pembroke | | Signed |
Paul Flynn | 31/01/1994 | Newport West | | Signed |
Jim Dowd | 31/01/1994 | Lewisham West | | Signed |
John Cummings | 31/01/1994 | Easington | | Signed |
Tom Cox | 31/01/1994 | Tooting | | Signed |
Eric Clarke | 31/01/1994 | Midlothian | | Signed |
Alan Meale | 31/01/1994 | Mansfield | | Signed |
John McAllion | 31/01/1994 | Dundee East | | Signed |
Robert Parry | 31/01/1994 | Liverpool, Riverside | | Signed |
Martin Redmond | 31/01/1994 | Don Valley | | Signed |
Ernie Ross | 31/01/1994 | Dundee West | | Signed |
Dennis Skinner | 31/01/1994 | Bolsover | | Signed |
Peter Hardy | 31/01/1994 | Wentworth | | Signed |
John Heppell | 31/01/1994 | Nottingham East | | Signed |
Lynne Jones | 31/01/1994 | Birmingham, Selly Oak | | Signed |
Eddie Loyden | 31/01/1994 | Liverpool, Garston | | Signed |
William McKelvey | 31/01/1994 | Kilmarnock & Loudoun | | Signed |
John Battle | 01/02/1994 | Leeds West | | Signed |
Audrey Wise | 01/02/1994 | Preston | | Signed |
Paddy Tipping | 01/02/1994 | Sherwood | | Signed |
Jack Thompson | 01/02/1994 | Wansbeck | | Signed |
Gerry Steinberg | 01/02/1994 | Durham, City of | | Signed |
Win Griffiths | 01/02/1994 | Bridgend | | Signed |
Norman Godman | 01/02/1994 | Greenock and Port Glasgow | | Signed |
John Evans | 01/02/1994 | St Helens North | | Signed |
Ian Davidson | 01/02/1994 | Glasgow, Govan | | Signed |
Lawrence Cunliffe | 01/02/1994 | Leigh | | Signed |
Bill Michie | 01/02/1994 | Sheffield, Heeley | | Signed |
Robert Litherland | 01/02/1994 | Manchester Central | | Signed |
Roy Hughes | 01/02/1994 | Newport East | | Signed |
Keith Hill | 01/02/1994 | Streatham | | Signed |
Gordon Prentice | 01/02/1994 | Pendle | | Signed |
Bridget Prentice | 01/02/1994 | Lewisham East | | Signed |
Jimmy Dunnachie | 01/02/1994 | Glasgow, Pollok | | Signed |
Terry Lewis | 02/02/1994 | Worsley | | Signed |
Andrew Faulds | 02/02/1994 | Warley East | | Signed |
Harry Cohen | 02/02/1994 | Leyton | | Signed |
Michael Clapham | 02/02/1994 | Barnsley West & Penistone | | Signed |
Richard Burden | 02/02/1994 | Birmingham, Northfield | | Signed |
Keith Bradley | 02/02/1994 | Manchester, Withington | | Signed |
Colin Pickthall | 02/02/1994 | West Lancashire | | Signed |
Ronnie Campbell | 03/02/1994 | Blyth Valley | | Signed |
Mike Hall | 03/02/1994 | Warrington South | | Signed |
Tommy Graham | 03/02/1994 | Renfrew West and Inverclyde | | Signed |
Derek Enright | 03/02/1994 | Hemsworth | | Signed |
Kenneth Eastham | 03/02/1994 | Manchester, Blackley | | Signed |
Dale Campbell-Savours | 03/02/1994 | Workington | | Signed |
Roland Boyes | 03/02/1994 | Houghton and Washington | | Signed |
Nigel Jones | 03/02/1994 | Cheltenham | | Signed |
Alan Simpson | 03/02/1994 | Nottingham South | | Signed |
Angela Eagle | 03/02/1994 | Wallasey | | Signed |
Jean Corston | 07/02/1994 | Bristol East | | Signed |
Andrew Miller | 08/02/1994 | Ellesmere Port & Neston | | Signed |
Edward O'Hara | 09/02/1994 | Knowsley South | | Signed |
Peter Pike | 10/02/1994 | Burnley | | Signed |
David Clelland | 10/02/1994 | Tyne Bridge | | Signed |
Eric Illsley | 10/02/1994 | Barnsley Central | | Signed |
Allan Rogers | 10/02/1994 | Rhondda | | Signed |
Martyn Jones | 15/02/1994 | Clwyd South West | | Signed |
Mike Gapes | 15/02/1994 | Ilford South | | Signed |
John Gunnell | 16/02/1994 | Leeds South and Morley | | Signed |
Kim Howells | 23/02/1994 | Pontypridd | | Signed |
Barry Sheerman | 24/02/1994 | Huddersfield | | Signed |
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