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EDM number 367 in 1994-95, proposed by Andrew Mackinlay on 11/01/1995.

That this House congratulates Mail on Sunday journalists Nick Fielding and Steve Bent for their expose of Medonna Company of Tirapur in Tamil Nadu which was published on 8th January 1995; notes that this company is a supplier of garments to the high street retail clothes chain C & A; is disturbed that such a flagship retailer did not know that their supplier employed factory children in the production of clothes for rates of pay around 40 pence for each shift which can last from 8 a.m. until 9 p.m.; considers that there can be no other description for such a practice that slave labour; calls upon C & A to immediately repudiate their supplier and to demonstrate with immediate effect that they will ensure in future, and in all respects, that their suppliers will be obliged to pay fair wages, adopt good local conditions of employment and not exploit child labour; further calls upon all United Kingdom retail outlets to review the employment circumstances and conditions of their suppliers overseas in the sure knowledge that there will always be British journalists such as Nick Fielding and Steve Bent who, together with their editors, will not hesitate to expose such cruel and unacceptable practices; and, in conclusion, knows that ordinary decent women and men in the United Kingdom will not continue as customers of shops which make profits based on the exploitation of children or people paid slave wages.

This motion has been signed by a total of 37 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Andrew MacKinlay11/01/1995ThurrockProposed
Nigel Griffiths12/01/1995Edinburgh SouthSigned
Peter Hardy12/01/1995WentworthSigned
Lynne Jones12/01/1995Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
Ken Livingstone12/01/1995Brent EastSigned
Eddie Loyden12/01/1995Liverpool, GarstonSigned
Jeremy Corbyn12/01/1995Islington NorthSigned
Jim Dowd12/01/1995Lewisham WestSigned
Harry Barnes12/01/1995North East DerbyshireSigned
Terry Davis16/01/1995Birmingham, Hodge HillSigned
Maria Fyfe16/01/1995Glasgow, MaryhillSigned
John Cummings17/01/1995EasingtonSigned
Win Griffiths17/01/1995BridgendSigned
Norman Godman17/01/1995Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
John Evans17/01/1995St Helens NorthSigned
Jean Corston17/01/1995Bristol EastSigned
Eric Clarke17/01/1995MidlothianSigned
Ronnie Campbell17/01/1995Blyth ValleySigned
Richard Burden17/01/1995Birmingham, NorthfieldSigned
Alan Meale17/01/1995MansfieldSigned
Mike O'Brien17/01/1995North WarwickshireSigned
Michael Connarty17/01/1995Falkirk EastSigned
Glenda Jackson18/01/1995Hampstead & HighgateSigned
David Chidgey18/01/1995EastleighSigned
Mike Hall18/01/1995Warrington SouthSigned
Nigel Jones19/01/1995CheltenhamSigned
Alan Williams19/01/1995Swansea WestSigned
John Gunnell19/01/1995Leeds South and MorleySigned
Eric Illsley19/01/1995Barnsley CentralSigned
Greg Pope20/01/1995HyndburnSigned
Martyn Jones20/01/1995Clwyd South WestSigned
Roy Beggs25/01/1995East AntrimSigned
Tommy Graham26/01/1995Renfrew West and InverclydeSigned
Jimmy Hood02/02/1995ClydesdaleSigned
Roland Boyes02/02/1995Houghton and WashingtonSigned
George Galloway09/02/1995Glasgow HillheadSigned
Dale Campbell-Savours16/02/1995WorkingtonSigned

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