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EDM number 434 in 1995-96, proposed by Max Madden on 14/02/1996.

That this House congratulates Steve Letza and Clive Smallman, of Bradford University Management Centre, on their joint paper, Is Water Thicker Than Blood ? Overcoming the Conspiracy of profit Over Social Responsibility in Privatised Utilities; notes their paper proposes a shift in public policy away from the greed is good ethic, returning the water industry to public ownership with democratic accountability and a revival of long-term planning and investment; further notes the alternative is of an Orwellian vision of the future, featuring water as the new global currency, rather than oil - and one which, in the case of the United Kingdom, is controlled by private organisations; believes that handing water supply over to profit driven shareholders was not only unethical but also a recipe for bad management, under-investment and unfair pricing; further acknowledges that the relations between water bosses, their shareholders and the Government represents an implicit conspiracy whose baneful effects were exposed by last summer's water supply crisis; criticises huge increases in water company profits, share dividends and directors' pay and perks; and questions Yorkshire Water's reliance on freak weather conditions to explain last summer's water shortages when the previous winter in West Yorkshire was the wettest for 34 years, rainfall was below the long-term average for 17 of the last 21 years and drought orders had been in place for five of the last seven summers so demonstrating unusual weather was not entirely unknown.

This motion has been signed by a total of 44 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Max Madden14/02/1996Bradford WestProposed
Terry Rooney14/02/1996Bradford NorthSigned
Helen Jackson14/02/1996Sheffield, HillsboroughSigned
Alice Mahon14/02/1996HalifaxSigned
Gerry Sutcliffe14/02/1996Bradford SouthSigned
Bill Michie15/02/1996Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Paddy Tipping15/02/1996SherwoodSigned
Hugh Bayley15/02/1996York, City ofSigned
Harry Barnes15/02/1996North East DerbyshireSigned
Neil Gerrard15/02/1996WalthamstowSigned
Ian Davidson15/02/1996Glasgow, GovanSigned
Tom Cox15/02/1996TootingSigned
Lynne Jones15/02/1996Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
David Hinchliffe15/02/1996WakefieldSigned
Peter Hardy15/02/1996WentworthSigned
Dennis Skinner15/02/1996BolsoverSigned
Colin Pickthall15/02/1996West LancashireSigned
Jeremy Corbyn16/02/1996Islington NorthSigned
Tony Banks16/02/1996Newham North WestSigned
Audrey Wise19/02/1996PrestonSigned
Michael Connarty19/02/1996Falkirk EastSigned
Alan Meale19/02/1996MansfieldSigned
Eric Clarke19/02/1996MidlothianSigned
Robert Parry20/02/1996Liverpool, RiversideSigned
Roy Hughes20/02/1996Newport EastSigned
Eric Illsley20/02/1996Barnsley CentralSigned
Robert Litherland20/02/1996Manchester CentralSigned
Ken Livingstone20/02/1996Brent EastSigned
Kevin McNamara20/02/1996Kingston upon Hull NorthSigned
Keith Bradley20/02/1996Manchester, WithingtonSigned
Maria Fyfe20/02/1996Glasgow, MaryhillSigned
Denis MacShane21/02/1996RotherhamSigned
Mike Hall21/02/1996Warrington SouthSigned
Norman Godman21/02/1996Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
Jean Corston21/02/1996Bristol EastSigned
Edward O'Hara21/02/1996Knowsley SouthSigned
Rachel Squire21/02/1996Dunfermline WestSigned
Robert Wareing22/02/1996Liverpool, West DerbySigned
Martyn Jones28/02/1996Clwyd South WestSigned
Dale Campbell-Savours29/02/1996WorkingtonSigned
Harry Cohen29/02/1996LeytonSigned
Jack Thompson06/03/1996WansbeckSigned
Bill Etherington07/03/1996Sunderland NorthSigned
Tommy Graham19/03/1996Renfrew West and InverclydeSigned

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