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EDM number 798 in 1995-96, proposed by Jim Dowd on 26/04/1996.

That this House condemns the British Railways Board for reneging on the seven year deal with the 33 London boroughs to provide free travel on London's railways for over a million elderly and disabled people across the capital from 1st April 1995 and which will now end on 1st April 1997; further condemns the Government's rail privatisation programme which is blamed by the Board for its inability to bind successor rail companies to the agreement; believes that this is further proof of the false promises made by the Government over the so-called benefits of privatisation; and calls on the Secretary of State for Transport to use his power before the rail sell off to guarantee the original full term of the scheme.

This motion has been signed by a total of 47 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Jim Dowd26/04/1996Lewisham WestProposed
Andrew MacKinlay26/04/1996ThurrockSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe29/04/1996LeighSigned
Tom Cox29/04/1996TootingSigned
Ken Livingstone29/04/1996Brent EastSigned
Lynne Jones29/04/1996Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
Keith Hill29/04/1996StreathamSigned
Rachel Squire29/04/1996Dunfermline WestSigned
Clive Soley29/04/1996HammersmithSigned
Bridget Prentice29/04/1996Lewisham EastSigned
Tony Banks30/04/1996Newham North WestSigned
Audrey Wise30/04/1996PrestonSigned
Robert Wareing30/04/1996Liverpool, West DerbySigned
John Gunnell30/04/1996Leeds South and MorleySigned
Andrew Faulds30/04/1996Warley EastSigned
Jeremy Corbyn30/04/1996Islington NorthSigned
Michael Connarty30/04/1996Falkirk EastSigned
Dale Campbell-Savours30/04/1996WorkingtonSigned
Ian McCartney30/04/1996MakerfieldSigned
Roy Hughes30/04/1996Newport EastSigned
Brian Sedgemore30/04/1996Hackney South & ShoreditchSigned
Joan Ruddock30/04/1996Lewisham, DeptfordSigned
Terry Rooney30/04/1996Bradford NorthSigned
Gordon Prentice30/04/1996PendleSigned
Robert Parry30/04/1996Liverpool, RiversideSigned
Bill Michie30/04/1996Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Tommy Graham01/05/1996Renfrew West and InverclydeSigned
Norman Godman01/05/1996Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
Ian Davidson01/05/1996Glasgow, GovanSigned
William McKelvey01/05/1996Kilmarnock & LoudounSigned
Glenda Jackson01/05/1996Hampstead & HighgateSigned
Ernie Ross01/05/1996Dundee WestSigned
Jean Corston01/05/1996Bristol EastSigned
Dennis Skinner02/05/1996BolsoverSigned
Win Griffiths02/05/1996BridgendSigned
Elfyn Llwyd07/05/1996Meirionnydd Nant ConwySigned
Dafydd Wigley07/05/1996CaernarfonSigned
Anne Campbell08/05/1996CambridgeSigned
Mike Hall08/05/1996Warrington SouthSigned
Neil Gerrard08/05/1996WalthamstowSigned
John Heppell08/05/1996Nottingham EastSigned
Bill Etherington09/05/1996Sunderland NorthSigned
Llin Golding16/05/1996Newcastle-under-LymeSigned
Nigel Jones21/05/1996CheltenhamSigned
David Chidgey17/06/1996EastleighSigned
Martyn Jones11/07/1996Clwyd South WestSigned
Alan Keen14/10/1996Feltham & HestonSigned

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