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Conduct Of The Honourable Member For Dover And Westminster City Council

EDM number 902 in 1995-96, proposed by Hilary Armstrong on 16/05/1996.

That this House notes with serious concern the untrue allegations made by the honourable Member for Dover in the debate on Tuesday 14th May on the District Auditor's finding concerning Westminster City Council; further notes that, contrary to the allegation made by the honourable Member for Dover, only one of the original 13 objectors has withdrawn their objection, and that the honourable Member for Workington remains an objector; affirms that the allegations that companies owned by three of the objectors 'have earned ú1 million in fees for planning consultancy political work obtained through their membership of the Labour Party' are totally untrue, that neither of the companies are 'political consultancies', that the companies win virtually all their work in competition and that they work for many private sector organisations, non-political voluntary organisations, local authorities run by different political parties, institutions such as development corporations, HATS, TECs and Government departments; further acknowledges that all of the allegations made against the objectors are untrue and scurrilous, that the honourable Member for Dover must have known them to be untrue and that his speech was therefore a gross abuse of parliamentary privilege and entirely contrary to the Prime Minister's amendment stating 'that parliamentary privilege is a powerful weapon for the protection of individuals and should not be used to provide cover for party political attacks.'.

This motion has been signed by a total of 46 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Hilary Armstrong16/05/1996North West DurhamProposed
Clive Betts16/05/1996Sheffield, AttercliffeSigned
Neil Gerrard16/05/1996WalthamstowSigned
Bill Olner16/05/1996NuneatonSigned
David Jamieson16/05/1996Plymouth, DevonportSigned
Glenda Jackson16/05/1996Hampstead & HighgateSigned
Margaret Hodge16/05/1996BarkingSigned
Robert Wareing17/05/1996Liverpool, West DerbySigned
John Cummings20/05/1996EasingtonSigned
William McKelvey20/05/1996Kilmarnock & LoudounSigned
John McAllion20/05/1996Dundee EastSigned
Roy Hughes20/05/1996Newport EastSigned
Keith Hill20/05/1996StreathamSigned
Ernie Ross20/05/1996Dundee WestSigned
David Winnick21/05/1996Walsall NorthSigned
Bruce Grocott21/05/1996Wrekin, TheSigned
Norman Godman21/05/1996Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
Maria Fyfe21/05/1996Glasgow, MaryhillSigned
Andrew Faulds21/05/1996Warley EastSigned
John Evans21/05/1996St Helens NorthSigned
Angela Eagle21/05/1996WallaseySigned
Michael Clapham21/05/1996Barnsley West & PenistoneSigned
Nigel Jones21/05/1996CheltenhamSigned
Lynne Jones21/05/1996Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
Eric Illsley21/05/1996Barnsley CentralSigned
Win Griffiths22/05/1996BridgendSigned
John Gunnell22/05/1996Leeds South and MorleySigned
Tony Banks22/05/1996Newham North WestSigned
Mike Watson22/05/1996Glasgow CentralSigned
Bill Etherington22/05/1996Sunderland NorthSigned
Bill Michie22/05/1996Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Alice Mahon22/05/1996HalifaxSigned
Eddie Loyden22/05/1996Liverpool, GarstonSigned
Ken Livingstone22/05/1996Brent EastSigned
Jon Owen Jones22/05/1996Cardiff CentralSigned
Helen Jackson22/05/1996Sheffield, HillsboroughSigned
Roland Boyes04/06/1996Houghton and WashingtonSigned
Gerry Steinberg05/06/1996Durham, City ofSigned
Mike Hall05/06/1996Warrington SouthSigned
Jean Corston05/06/1996Bristol EastSigned
Anne Campbell06/06/1996CambridgeSigned
Martin Redmond10/06/1996Don ValleySigned
Jack Thompson11/06/1996WansbeckSigned
Bridget Prentice17/06/1996Lewisham EastSigned
Audrey Wise18/06/1996PrestonSigned
Martyn Jones18/07/1996Clwyd South WestSigned

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