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EDM number 88A1 in 1994-95, proposed by David Winnick on 23/11/1994.

at end add `and strongly deplores the way Ministers and Tory backbenchers voted down by 21 votes on 16th January 1987 the second reading of the Bill that would have exempted pensioners from the television licence fee and moreover the refusal by Ministers to offer any compromise at all and then a year later actually amending legislation that made the existing restrictive concessionary scheme much more limited in scope.'.

This is a ammendment to 88.

This motion has been signed by a total of 12 MPs.