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Retro-Fitting Seat Belts On Coaches Carrying School Children

EDM number 468 in 1997-98, proposed by David Lock on 17/11/1997.

That this House welcomes the proposals of the Government to introduce from February 1998 checks on seats belts into coaches as part of the MOT test and to carry out a one-off check on the quality of the installation of all seat belts fitted in buses, coaches and minibuses; notes that in accidents coach seat belts will be subjected to very high loading; notes with concern that many retro-fitted seat belts in coaches have only been fastened with pop rivets to panels on the side of pre-1988 coaches; notes that many of these panels have corroded away through age and are thus unable to sustain the loading required in an accident; and calls on the Government to specify in regulations that outerseat mountings for such seat belts on pre-1988 coaches should be strengthened throughout the length of the vehicle so as to ensure that the seat belt will be an effective restraint in an accident.

This motion has been signed by a total of 87 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
David Lock17/11/1997Wyre ForestLabourProposed
Clive Soley17/11/1997Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's BushLabourSeconded
Anne Begg17/11/1997Aberdeen SouthLabourSeconded
Charlotte Atkins17/11/1997Staffordshire MoorlandsLabourSeconded
James Plaskitt17/11/1997Warwick & LeamingtonLabourSeconded
Jacqui Smith17/11/1997RedditchLabourSeconded
Tony Colman17/11/1997PutneyLabourSigned
John Austin17/11/1997Erith & ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Julia Drown17/11/1997South SwindonLabourSigned
Caroline Flint17/11/1997Don ValleyLabourSigned
Maria Fyfe17/11/1997Glasgow, MaryhillLabourSigned
Paul Goggins17/11/1997Wythenshawe & Sale EastLabourSigned
Fabian Hamilton17/11/1997Leeds North EastLabourSigned
Hazel Blears17/11/1997SalfordLabourSigned
Paul Stinchcombe17/11/1997WellingboroughLabourSigned
Don Touhig17/11/1997IslwynLabour Co-operativeSigned
Rudi Vis17/11/1997Finchley & Golders GreenLabourSigned
Claire Ward17/11/1997WatfordLabourSigned
Richard Burden17/11/1997Birmingham, NorthfieldLabourSigned
Lynda Clark17/11/1997Edinburgh, PentlandsLabourSigned
Phyllis Starkey17/11/1997Milton Keynes South WestLabourSigned
Stephen Hesford17/11/1997Wirral WestLabourSigned
Beverley Hughes17/11/1997Stretford & UrmstonLabourSigned
David Kidney17/11/1997StaffordLabourSigned
Andrew MacKinlay17/11/1997ThurrockLabourSigned
Debra Shipley17/11/1997StourbridgeLabourSigned
Stephen McCabe17/11/1997Birmingham, Hall GreenLabourSigned
Chris McCafferty17/11/1997Calder ValleyLabourSigned
Bill Olner17/11/1997NuneatonLabourSigned
Peter Bradley17/11/1997Wrekin, TheLabourSigned
Gerry Steinberg18/11/1997Durham, City ofLabourSigned
David Borrow18/11/1997South RibbleLabourSigned
Roy Beggs18/11/1997East AntrimUUPSigned
Kelvin Hopkins18/11/1997Luton NorthLabourSigned
Harry Barnes18/11/1997North East DerbyshireLabourSigned
Barbara Follett18/11/1997StevenageLabourSigned
John Cryer18/11/1997HornchurchLabourSigned
Yvette Cooper18/11/1997Pontefract & CastlefordLabourSigned
Bill Michie18/11/1997Sheffield, HeeleyLabourSigned
Angela Smith18/11/1997BasildonLabour Co-operativeSigned
Dennis Skinner18/11/1997BolsoverLabourSigned
Peter Pike18/11/1997BurnleyLabourSigned
Gareth Thomas19/11/1997Harrow WestLabourSigned
Martin Salter19/11/1997Reading WestLabourSigned
David Taylor19/11/1997North West LeicestershireLabour Co-operativeSigned
Mike Hancock19/11/1997Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Norman Godman19/11/1997Greenock & InverclydeLabourSigned
Maria Eagle19/11/1997Liverpool, GarstonLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn19/11/1997Islington NorthLabourSigned
Martin Linton19/11/1997BatterseaLabourSigned
Ken Livingstone19/11/1997Brent EastLabourSigned
Ernie Ross19/11/1997Dundee WestLabourSigned
Phil Sawford19/11/1997KetteringLabourSigned
Brian Iddon19/11/1997Bolton South EastLabourSigned
Melanie Johnson19/11/1997Welwyn HatfieldLabourSigned
Lynne Jones19/11/1997Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Alan Simpson20/11/1997Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Tom Levitt20/11/1997High PeakLabourSigned
Robin Corbett20/11/1997Birmingham, ErdingtonLabourSigned
David Crausby20/11/1997Bolton North EastLabourSigned
Andrew Dismore20/11/1997HendonLabourSigned
Chris Ruane21/11/1997Vale of ClwydLabourSigned
Bill Etherington21/11/1997Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Dan Norris24/11/1997WansdykeLabourSigned
Tom Cox24/11/1997TootingLabourSigned
Huw Edwards24/11/1997MonmouthLabourSigned
Audrey Wise25/11/1997PrestonLabourSigned
Paul Flynn25/11/1997Newport WestLabourSigned
Linda Perham25/11/1997Ilford NorthLabourSigned
Ian Cawsey25/11/1997Brigg & GooleLabourSigned
Mark Todd26/11/1997South DerbyshireLabourSigned
John Gunnell26/11/1997Morley & RothwellLabourSigned
Eileen Gordon26/11/1997RomfordLabourSigned
Barry Gardiner26/11/1997Brent NorthLabourSigned
Keith Darvill26/11/1997UpminsterLabourSigned
David Chaytor26/11/1997Bury NorthLabourSigned
Ashok Kumar26/11/1997Middlesbrough South & East ClevelandLabourSigned
Chris Pond26/11/1997GraveshamLabourSigned
Ivan Lewis27/11/1997Bury SouthLabourSigned
Jeff Ennis27/11/1997Barnsley East & MexboroughLabourSigned
Eric Illsley02/12/1997Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
John McDonnell03/12/1997Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
Joan Walley03/12/1997Stoke-on-Trent NorthLabourSigned
Nick Harvey05/12/1997North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
David Drew10/12/1997StroudLabour Co-operativeSigned
Fraser Kemp18/12/1997Houghton & Washington EastLabourSigned
Patricia HewittUnknownWithdrawn

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