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British Activity Holiday Associations

EDM number 129 in 1998-99, proposed by Christopher Fraser on 15/12/1998.

That this House notes that the British Activity Holiday Association provides high quality holidays and courses to more than 200,000 children each year; understands that the industry's 4,000 employees, many of whom are students, receive incomes consistent with, or higher than, the proposed hourly national minimum wage rates once the value of the board and lodging provided is included; further notes that the draft national minimum wage regulations allow only a token amount towards the costs of such accommodation and nothing towards the cost of meals; believes that the community ethos of the residential experience for children and staff was not acknowledged by the draft national minimum wage regulations; calls for the Government to adopt the straightforward and sensible amendments proposed by the British Activity Holiday Association so that at least ú70 per week can be deducted where board and lodging is integral to employment; and looks forwards to the activity holiday industry thriving rather than foundering in 1999 and beyond.

This motion has been signed by a total of 26 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Christopher Fraser15/12/1998Mid Dorset & North PooleConservativeProposed
Owen Paterson15/12/1998North ShropshireConservativeSeconded
John Hayes15/12/1998South Holland & The DeepingsConservativeSeconded
Julian Lewis15/12/1998New Forest EastConservativeSeconded
Nick Hawkins15/12/1998Surrey HeathConservativeSeconded
John Randall15/12/1998UxbridgeConservativeSigned
Eleanor Laing15/12/1998Epping ForestConservativeSigned
Dominic Grieve15/12/1998BeaconsfieldConservativeSigned
Philip Hammond15/12/1998Runnymede & WeybridgeConservativeSigned
Desmond Swayne15/12/1998New Forest WestConservativeSigned
David Prior16/12/1998North NorfolkConservativeSeconded
Peter Brand16/12/1998Isle of WightLiberal DemocratSigned
Nicholas Winterton16/12/1998MacclesfieldConservativeSigned
Tim Loughton16/12/1998East Worthing & ShorehamConservativeSigned
Paul Keetch16/12/1998HerefordLiberal DemocratSigned
Vincent Cable17/12/1998TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Evan Harris11/01/1999Oxford West & AbingdonLiberal DemocratSigned
Ronnie Fearn11/01/1999SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
David Chidgey21/01/1999EastleighLiberal DemocratSigned
David Ruffley27/01/1999Bury St EdmundsConservativeSigned
Peter Luff28/01/1999Mid WorcestershireConservativeSigned
Richard Spring02/02/1999West SuffolkConservativeSigned
Julie Kirkbride02/02/1999BromsgroveConservativeSigned
Peter Ainsworth02/02/1999East SurreyConservativeSigned
Robert Walter02/02/1999North DorsetConservativeSigned
Terry Davis21/07/1999Birmingham, Hodge HillLabourSigned

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