Sir James Mckinnon And Calor Gas

EDM number 764 in 1993-94, proposed by Peter Hain on 08/03/1994.

That this House notes Calor Gas has appointed the former Director-General of OFGAS, Sir James McKinnon to act as its adviser for an undisclosed sum as part of its push to enter the United Kingdom domestic and natural gas market which he in his former role aggressively deregulated to promote new market entrants (such as Calor); further notes that Dutch-owned Calor Gas is in partnership with Norwegian-dominated Alliance and considers Mr McKinnon's decision to sell his unique knowledge to these companies not only a grossly unpatriotic act but a shameless example of a Tory government appointee serving his time before shoving his own nose into the free market trough; recognises this disgraceful episode as symptomatic of the need to regulate the regulators by instructing them not to pursue competition as blind dogma but to act in the national interest; and calls on the President of the Board of Trade to overhaul the regulatory regime of the privatised utilities ensuring, inter alia, that as a condition of their appointment directors-general are prevented from taking up subsequent appointments with private companies in the same industry sector.

This motion has been signed by a total of 31 MPs.