Ve And Vj Days And One Pound Travel

EDM number 732 in 1994-95, proposed by Andrew Mackinlay on 03/03/1995.

That this House calls upon British Rail and the managers of the various train operating units to grant a special travel concession, off peak, to all World War II ex-service personnel and members of the wartime Merchant Navy, together with their spouses, on 5th,6th,7th and 8th May, which would facilitate veterans and their spouses being able to travel to VE commemorations at their former garrisons, naval bases, aerodromes and ports on the payment of ú1, and that a similar concession be granted to make comparable commemorations on VJ Day.

This motion has been signed by a total of 56 MPs.