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Conduct Of The Hon Member For Westminster North And Walterton And Elgin Community;homes

EDM number 879 in 1994-95, proposed by Clare Short on 22/03/1995.

That this House welcomes the decision by John Magill, appointed Auditor to Westminster City Council, to conduct a full investigation into allegations of a dirty tricks campaign, conducted by the council against Walterton and Elgin Estates, during the transfer of Walterton and Elgin Estates under the provisions of the Housing Act 1988; notes that this decision follows the referral to the Auditor of a detailed report into these matters by an independent expert; notes that the campaign against WECH included setting up a bogus group called Walterton Residents Against Takeover and that, supposedly at their request, the Right honourable Member for Westminster North wrote to the Housing Corporation in March 1989 opposing the WECH plans and making unsubstantiated and defamatory allegations against residents involved in WECH; calls on the Right honourable Member to disclose how and why he obtained a draft copy of Department of the Environment Guidelines in advance of their publication and gave them to Westminster Conservatives in March 1989; notes that the Minister responsible told Panorama last year that it would have been improper to leak these guidelines; and finally call on the Right honourable Member to explain he why lobbied Ministers to permit grants under the assisted purchase scheme to be given to persuade tenants to move out of estates in marginal wards that had been designated for sale as part of the council's gerrymandering strategy.

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

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Clare Short22/03/1995Birmingham, LadywoodProposed
John Heppell22/03/1995Nottingham EastSigned
John Battle22/03/1995Leeds WestSigned
Tony Banks22/03/1995Newham North WestSigned
Mike Gapes22/03/1995Ilford SouthSigned
Jim Dowd22/03/1995Lewisham WestSigned
Jim Cunningham22/03/1995Coventry South EastSigned
Judith Church22/03/1995DagenhamSigned
Bill Olner22/03/1995NuneatonSigned
George Mudie22/03/1995Leeds EastSigned
Lewis Moonie22/03/1995KirkcaldySigned
Alan Milburn22/03/1995DarlingtonSigned
Dennis Turner23/03/1995Wolverhampton South EastSigned
Hugh Bayley23/03/1995York, City ofSigned
Harry Barnes23/03/1995North East DerbyshireSigned
Win Griffiths23/03/1995BridgendSigned
Norman Godman23/03/1995Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
John Evans23/03/1995St Helens NorthSigned
Jimmy Dunnachie23/03/1995Glasgow, PollokSigned
John Cummings23/03/1995EasingtonSigned
Michael Connarty23/03/1995Falkirk EastSigned
Ronnie Campbell23/03/1995Blyth ValleySigned
Bill Michie23/03/1995Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Ken Livingstone23/03/1995Brent EastSigned
Dennis Skinner23/03/1995BolsoverSigned
Alan Simpson23/03/1995Nottingham SouthSigned
Joan Ruddock23/03/1995Lewisham, DeptfordSigned
Martin Redmond23/03/1995Don ValleySigned
Gordon Prentice23/03/1995PendleSigned
Bridget Prentice23/03/1995Lewisham EastSigned
Harry Cohen23/03/1995LeytonSigned
David Winnick24/03/1995Walsall NorthSigned
Jeremy Corbyn27/03/1995Islington NorthSigned
Janet Anderson27/03/1995Rossendale & DarwenSigned
William McKelvey27/03/1995Kilmarnock & LoudounSigned
John McAllion27/03/1995Dundee EastSigned
Roy Hughes27/03/1995Newport EastSigned
Clive Soley27/03/1995HammersmithSigned
Ernie Ross27/03/1995Dundee WestSigned
Peter Kilfoyle27/03/1995Liverpool, WaltonSigned
Peter Hardy28/03/1995WentworthSigned
Lynne Jones28/03/1995Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
Alice Mahon28/03/1995HalifaxSigned
David Clelland28/03/1995Tyne BridgeSigned
Paul Flynn28/03/1995Newport WestSigned
Mike Hall29/03/1995Warrington SouthSigned
Jack Thompson29/03/1995WansbeckSigned
Gerry Sutcliffe29/03/1995Bradford SouthSigned
Jean Corston29/03/1995Bristol EastSigned
Eric Illsley30/03/1995Barnsley CentralSigned
Ian Davidson30/03/1995Glasgow, GovanSigned
Gerry Steinberg04/04/1995Durham, City ofSigned
Martyn Jones18/04/1995Clwyd South WestSigned
Audrey Wise19/04/1995PrestonSigned
Mike Watson20/04/1995Glasgow CentralSigned
Diane Abbott27/04/1995Hackney North & Stoke NewingtonSigned

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