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EDM number 166 in 1997-98, proposed by David Chaytor on 24/06/1997.

That this House notes the escalating financial crisis in Britain's further education colleges; regrets the deteriorating industrial relations and increasing demoralisation of staff at all levels within the sector; is extremely concerned about the effect on student achievement and student opportunity of the present instability; condemns the lack of accountability inherent within the current structures of college governance; condemns the lack of any form of serious strategic planning for the growth and development of the sector; believes the current crisis is the direct consequence of the forced introduction of the internal market combined with an inflexible and inequitable funding methodology; believes that the college sector has a central role to play in the implementation of the Government's policies on Welfare to Work and Lifelong Learning; and calls on the Government to introduce a moratorium on the current drive to achieve convergence of funding pending the estabishment of a major review of the further education sector which would include the role and function of the FEFC, the validity of the existing funding methodology, the structure of college governance, the nature of the existing industrial relations framework, the potential for establishing strategic planning mechanisms within the emerging structures of regional government and a comprehensive assessment of the impact of the internal market on levels of student achievement and choice and diversity within the curriculum.

This motion has been signed by a total of 75 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
David Chaytor24/06/1997Bury NorthLabourProposed
Peter Pike24/06/1997BurnleyLabourSigned
Phil Woolas24/06/1997Oldham East & SaddleworthLabourSigned
Paul Truswell24/06/1997PudseyLabourSigned
Graham Stringer24/06/1997Manchester, BlackleyLabourSigned
Ian Stewart24/06/1997EcclesLabourSigned
Hazel Blears24/06/1997SalfordLabourSigned
Gerry Bermingham24/06/1997St Helens SouthLabourSigned
Barbara Follett24/06/1997StevenageLabourSigned
Louise Ellman24/06/1997Liverpool, RiversideLabour Co-operativeSigned
Jim Dobbin24/06/1997Heywood & MiddletonLabour Co-operativeSigned
Valerie Davey24/06/1997Bristol WestLabourSigned
Colin Burgon24/06/1997ElmetLabourSigned
Christine Russell24/06/1997Chester, City ofLabourSigned
Robert Sheldon24/06/1997Ashton-under-LyneLabourSigned
Helen Southworth24/06/1997Warrington SouthLabourSigned
David Hinchliffe24/06/1997WakefieldLabourSigned
Beverley Hughes24/06/1997Stretford & UrmstonLabourSigned
Tom Levitt24/06/1997High PeakLabourSigned
Ivan Lewis24/06/1997Bury SouthLabourSigned
Gordon Marsden24/06/1997Blackpool SouthLabourSigned
Edward O'Hara24/06/1997Knowsley SouthLabourSigned
David Crausby24/06/1997Bolton North EastLabourSigned
Audrey Wise25/06/1997PrestonLabourSigned
David Taylor25/06/1997North West LeicestershireLabour Co-operativeSigned
Andrew Stunell25/06/1997Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
George Stevenson25/06/1997Stoke-on-Trent SouthLabourSigned
Harry Barnes25/06/1997North East DerbyshireLabourSigned
John Austin25/06/1997Erith & ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Mike Hancock25/06/1997Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Jeremy Corbyn25/06/1997Islington NorthLabourSigned
Vincent Cable25/06/1997TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Christine Butler25/06/1997Castle PointLabourSigned
Ken Livingstone25/06/1997Brent EastLabourSigned
Ashok Kumar25/06/1997Middlesbrough South & East ClevelandLabourSigned
Lynne Jones25/06/1997Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Ernie Ross25/06/1997Dundee WestLabourSigned
Lorna Fitzsimons25/06/1997RochdaleLabourSigned
Derek Wyatt26/06/1997Sittingbourne & SheppeyLabourSigned
Anne Begg26/06/1997Aberdeen SouthLabourSigned
Norman Godman26/06/1997Greenock & InverclydeLabourSigned
Don Foster26/06/1997BathLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Flynn26/06/1997Newport WestLabourSigned
Jeff Ennis26/06/1997Barnsley East & MexboroughLabourSigned
John Cummings26/06/1997EasingtonLabourSigned
Alice Mahon26/06/1997HalifaxLabourSigned
Fiona Mactaggart26/06/1997SloughLabourSigned
Nigel Jones26/06/1997CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Brian Iddon26/06/1997Bolton South EastLabourSigned
Phil Hope26/06/1997CorbyLabour Co-operativeSigned
Martin Smyth26/06/1997Belfast SouthUUPSigned
Dennis Skinner26/06/1997BolsoverLabourSigned
Peter Bradley26/06/1997Wrekin, TheLabourSigned
John McWilliam27/06/1997BlaydonLabourSigned
Peter Brand27/06/1997Isle of WightLiberal DemocratSigned
Kelvin Hopkins30/06/1997Luton NorthLabourSigned
Maria Fyfe30/06/1997Glasgow, MaryhillLabourSigned
Barry Jones01/07/1997Alyn & DeesideLabourSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe01/07/1997LeighLabourSigned
Donald Gorrie01/07/1997Edinburgh WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Eric Illsley02/07/1997Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Bill Michie02/07/1997Sheffield, HeeleyLabourSigned
Paul Stinchcombe03/07/1997WellingboroughLabourSigned
Gerry Steinberg07/07/1997Durham, City ofLabourSigned
John McDonnell08/07/1997Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
Roy Beggs08/07/1997East AntrimUUPSigned
Bill Etherington10/07/1997Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Paddy Tipping11/07/1997SherwoodLabourSigned
Phil Sawford17/07/1997KetteringLabourSigned
Tony Benn17/07/1997ChesterfieldLabourSigned
Alan Williams24/07/1997Swansea WestLabourSigned
Dennis Turner29/07/1997Wolverhampton South EastLabour Co-operativeSigned
Nick Harvey31/07/1997North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
Tony McWalter24/11/1997Hemel HempsteadLabour Co-operativeSigned
Diane Abbott27/11/1997Hackney North & Stoke NewingtonLabourSigned

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