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United Utilities Pre-Payment Meters

EDM number 1108 in 1995-96, proposed by Janet Anderson on 08/07/1996.

That this House notes that United Utilities, the water company for the North West, has begun introducing pre-payment meters into homes which, for the most part, house low income families who have fallen into arrears with their bills; further notes that if families do not maintain payments to these meters they face having their supply cut off immediately following an emergency week's service; believes that there have already been such instances, and that there are families in the North West who have been deprived of the means to wash, to cook, to clean their clothes and house and of sanitation; considers that there are other methods of recovering arrears which do not carry the immediate threat of disconnection as pre-payment water meters do; condemns United Utilities, who made pre-tax profits of ú272.6 million in the last year, for using a method of recovery which inevitably leads to a spiral of disconnections of services; and calls upon the company to cancel their programme of installation of pre-payment water meters.

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

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Janet Anderson08/07/1996Rossendale & DarwenProposed
Joe Benton08/07/1996BootleSigned
Ann Coffey08/07/1996StockportSigned
Andrew Miller08/07/1996Ellesmere Port & NestonSigned
Jane Kennedy08/07/1996Liverpool BroadgreenSigned
Greg Pope08/07/1996HyndburnSigned
John McAllion09/07/1996Dundee EastSigned
William McKelvey09/07/1996Kilmarnock & LoudounSigned
Keith Bradley09/07/1996Manchester, WithingtonSigned
John Cummings09/07/1996EasingtonSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe09/07/1996LeighSigned
Ian Davidson09/07/1996Glasgow, GovanSigned
Hugh Bayley09/07/1996York, City ofSigned
Robert Wareing09/07/1996Liverpool, West DerbySigned
Alice Mahon09/07/1996HalifaxSigned
Liz Lynne09/07/1996RochdaleSigned
Colin Pickthall09/07/1996West LancashireSigned
Robert Parry09/07/1996Liverpool, RiversideSigned
Ernie Ross09/07/1996Dundee WestSigned
Dennis Skinner09/07/1996BolsoverSigned
Rachel Squire09/07/1996Dunfermline WestSigned
Roy Hughes09/07/1996Newport EastSigned
Lynne Jones09/07/1996Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
Ken Livingstone09/07/1996Brent EastSigned
Gerry Steinberg10/07/1996Durham, City ofSigned
Mike Hall10/07/1996Warrington SouthSigned
Bill Michie10/07/1996Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Ian McCartney10/07/1996MakerfieldSigned
Helen Jackson10/07/1996Sheffield, HillsboroughSigned
Glenda Jackson10/07/1996Hampstead & HighgateSigned
John Heppell10/07/1996Nottingham EastSigned
Peter Hardy10/07/1996WentworthSigned
Gordon Prentice10/07/1996PendleSigned
John Gunnell11/07/1996Leeds South and MorleySigned
Neil Gerrard11/07/1996WalthamstowSigned
Angela Eagle11/07/1996WallaseySigned
Jean Corston11/07/1996Bristol EastSigned
Edward O'Hara11/07/1996Knowsley SouthSigned
Eddie Loyden11/07/1996Liverpool, GarstonSigned
Joan Ruddock11/07/1996Lewisham, DeptfordSigned
Roland Boyes12/07/1996Houghton and WashingtonSigned
Harry Barnes15/07/1996North East DerbyshireSigned
Bill Etherington15/07/1996Sunderland NorthSigned
Peter Pike15/07/1996BurnleySigned
Alex Salmond16/07/1996Banff & BuchanSigned
Michael Connarty16/07/1996Falkirk EastSigned
Audrey Wise17/07/1996PrestonSigned
Eric Clarke17/07/1996MidlothianSigned
Alan Meale17/07/1996MansfieldSigned
Terry Lewis17/07/1996WorsleySigned
Allan Rogers17/07/1996RhonddaSigned
Martyn Jones18/07/1996Clwyd South WestSigned
Tommy Graham18/07/1996Renfrew West and InverclydeSigned
Eric Illsley23/07/1996Barnsley CentralSigned
James Callaghan23/07/1996Heywood & MiddletonSigned
Jack Thompson24/07/1996WansbeckSigned

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