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EDM number 1297 in 1994-95, proposed by Jim Dowd on 26/06/1995.

That this House is aware that in the financial year 1994-95 the Employment Service in London and the South East was overtaken by a mid-year budgetary crisis which saw, amongst other things, a ban on overtime and promotions, volunteers taking a reduction in hours or extended periods of unpaid leave over Christmas and from January to March, and the widespread sacking of casual staff, and that this has had a markedly adverse effect on the service offered to claimants which has resulted in offices across London facing the problems created by 5-10 per cent. below authorised staffing levels, lunchtime closures, reductions in client advisor services, including unfilled posts for disablement advisors, and a consequent rise in levels of sick leave, which are combining to produce an increase in waiting times for claimants; and calls upon the Department of Employment to take steps to remedy this position and ensure that nothing similar occurs in the current financial year.

This motion has been signed by a total of 45 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Jim Dowd26/06/1995Lewisham WestProposed
Bridget Prentice26/06/1995Lewisham EastSigned
Barbara Roche26/06/1995Hornsey & Wood GreenSigned
Nigel Spearing26/06/1995Newham SouthSigned
Judith Church26/06/1995DagenhamSigned
Stephen Timms26/06/1995Newham North EastSigned
Ken Livingstone27/06/1995Brent EastSigned
Keith Vaz27/06/1995Leicester EastSigned
Harry Barnes27/06/1995North East DerbyshireSigned
John Evans27/06/1995St Helens NorthSigned
Eric Clarke27/06/1995MidlothianSigned
Alan Meale27/06/1995MansfieldSigned
William McKelvey27/06/1995Kilmarnock & LoudounSigned
John McAllion27/06/1995Dundee EastSigned
Lynne Jones27/06/1995Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
Keith Hill27/06/1995StreathamSigned
Dennis Skinner27/06/1995BolsoverSigned
Ernie Ross27/06/1995Dundee WestSigned
Jean Corston28/06/1995Bristol EastSigned
Harry Cohen28/06/1995LeytonSigned
Bill Michie28/06/1995Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Eddie Loyden28/06/1995Liverpool, GarstonSigned
Michael Clapham28/06/1995Barnsley West & PenistoneSigned
Alan Simpson29/06/1995Nottingham SouthSigned
Terry Lewis29/06/1995WorsleySigned
Alice Mahon29/06/1995HalifaxSigned
Michael Connarty29/06/1995Falkirk EastSigned
Paul Flynn29/06/1995Newport WestSigned
Tommy Graham29/06/1995Renfrew West and InverclydeSigned
Win Griffiths29/06/1995BridgendSigned
Tom Cox03/07/1995TootingSigned
Janet Anderson03/07/1995Rossendale & DarwenSigned
Peter Hardy04/07/1995WentworthSigned
Dennis Turner04/07/1995Wolverhampton South EastSigned
John Cummings04/07/1995EasingtonSigned
Jeremy Corbyn05/07/1995Islington NorthSigned
Neil Gerrard05/07/1995WalthamstowSigned
Mike Hall05/07/1995Warrington SouthSigned
Joan Ruddock06/07/1995Lewisham, DeptfordSigned
Martin Redmond10/07/1995Don ValleySigned
John Hutton11/07/1995Barrow & FurnessSigned
Eric Illsley11/07/1995Barnsley CentralSigned
Martyn Jones11/07/1995Clwyd South WestSigned
Audrey Wise18/07/1995PrestonSigned
Allan Rogers06/11/1995RhonddaSigned

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