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Selling Of Customer Lists

EDM number 442 in 1997-98, proposed by Oliver Letwin on 12/11/1997.

That this House is concerned by the practice amongst some companies of selling or transferring lists of their customers to other companies without explicit authorisation of those customers; and calls upon Her Majesty's Government to legislate to prevent the transfer of the names, addresses or other data relating to customers by one company to another without an explicit and positive instruction from the customers involved.

This motion has been signed by a total of 17 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Oliver Letwin12/11/1997West DorsetConservativeProposed
David Prior12/11/1997North NorfolkConservativeSigned
Julie Kirkbride12/11/1997BromsgroveConservativeSigned
Julian Lewis12/11/1997New Forest EastConservativeSigned
Howard Flight12/11/1997Arundel & South DownsConservativeSigned
Philip Hammond12/11/1997Runnymede & WeybridgeConservativeSigned
Ken Livingstone13/11/1997Brent EastLabourSigned
Donald Gorrie13/11/1997Edinburgh WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Lynne Jones13/11/1997Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Martin Smyth13/11/1997Belfast SouthUUPSigned
John McDonnell14/11/1997Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
Norman Baker17/11/1997LewesLiberal DemocratSigned
Tony McWalter24/11/1997Hemel HempsteadLabour Co-operativeSigned
Crispin Blunt27/11/1997ReigateConservativeSigned
Andrew Stunell27/11/1997Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
Nick Harvey05/12/1997North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
Peter Brand22/12/1997Isle of WightLiberal DemocratSigned

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