Compensation For Distant Water Trawlermen
EDM number 265 in 1998-99, proposed by Austin Mitchell on 02/02/1999.
That this House recognises the injustice perpetrated on Britain's distant water trawlermen who lost their jobs and futures in 1976 when fishing in Icelandic waters was suddenly ended; recalls that Government ministers and opposition spokespeople then promised compensation, retraining and support to restructure the fishing industry, though none of these promises were fulfilled; is grateful that ministers and the Department of Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food after representations from the British Fishermen's Association of former trawlermen have at last begun consideration of how these injustices can be remedied; calls on the Government to reach a speedy decision which offers belated justice and compensation to men whose industry and jobs were eliminated through no fault of their own, and who after serving their industry and country in this most dangerous of jobs have been waiting for a quarter of a century for the compensation and proper pension provision which should have been their right and which would have been payable at the time, had it been realised then, what has since been accepted by the courts, the trawlermen were employed rather than casual labour with neither rights nor redundancy; believes that it is now time to do justice to these brave and patient men; and urges Her Majesty's Government to act and remedy the long standing grievance they have so patiently borne for so long.
This motion has been signed by a total of 95 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.
MP | Date | Constituency | Party | Type |
Austin Mitchell | 02/02/1999 | Great Grimsby | Labour | Proposed |
Joan Humble | 02/02/1999 | Blackpool North & Fleetwood | Labour | Signed |
Shona McIsaac | 02/02/1999 | Cleethorpes | Labour | Signed |
Roy Beggs | 03/02/1999 | East Antrim | UUP | Signed |
Harry Barnes | 03/02/1999 | North East Derbyshire | Labour | Signed |
Norman Godman | 03/02/1999 | Greenock & Inverclyde | Labour | Signed |
Michael Clapham | 03/02/1999 | Barnsley West & Penistone | Labour | Signed |
Bill Michie | 03/02/1999 | Sheffield, Heeley | Labour | Signed |
Ashok Kumar | 03/02/1999 | Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland | Labour | Signed |
Lynne Jones | 03/02/1999 | Birmingham, Selly Oak | Labour | Signed |
Dennis Skinner | 03/02/1999 | Bolsover | Labour | Signed |
Lawrie Quinn | 04/02/1999 | Scarborough & Whitby | Labour | Signed |
Phil Sawford | 04/02/1999 | Kettering | Labour | Signed |
Ronnie Campbell | 04/02/1999 | Blyth Valley | Labour | Signed |
John Cummings | 04/02/1999 | Easington | Labour | Signed |
David Borrow | 04/02/1999 | South Ribble | Labour | Signed |
Audrey Wise | 04/02/1999 | Preston | Labour | Signed |
Kelvin Hopkins | 08/02/1999 | Luton North | Labour | Signed |
Andrew Dismore | 09/02/1999 | Hendon | Labour | Signed |
Mike Hancock | 09/02/1999 | Portsmouth South | Liberal Democrat | Signed |
Eric Clarke | 09/02/1999 | Midlothian | Labour | Signed |
John McWilliam | 09/02/1999 | Blaydon | Labour | Signed |
Alex Salmond | 10/02/1999 | Banff & Buchan | Scottish National Party | Signed |
Elfyn Llwyd | 10/02/1999 | Meirionnydd Nant Conwy | Plaid Cymru | Signed |
Michael Jabez Foster | 10/02/1999 | Hastings & Rye | Labour | Signed |
Alan Simpson | 11/02/1999 | Nottingham South | Labour | Signed |
John Wilkinson | 11/02/1999 | Ruislip - Northwood | Conservative | Signed |
Jim Wallace | 15/02/1999 | Orkney & Shetland | Liberal Democrat | Signed |
John Austin | 15/02/1999 | Erith & Thamesmead | Labour | Signed |
Andrew George | 15/02/1999 | St Ives | Liberal Democrat | Signed |
Ann Cryer | 15/02/1999 | Keighley | Labour | Signed |
Frank Cook | 16/02/1999 | Stockton North | Labour | Signed |
Mike Wood | 22/02/1999 | Batley & Spen | Labour | Signed |
Betty Williams | 22/02/1999 | Conwy | Labour | Signed |
Robert Wareing | 22/02/1999 | Liverpool, West Derby | Labour | Signed |
Maria Fyfe | 22/02/1999 | Glasgow, Maryhill | Labour | Signed |
Gwyneth Dunwoody | 22/02/1999 | Crewe & Nantwich | Labour | Signed |
Denzil Davies | 22/02/1999 | Llanelli | Labour | Signed |
Valerie Davey | 22/02/1999 | Bristol West | Labour | Signed |
Jim Cunningham | 22/02/1999 | Coventry South | Labour | Signed |
Jamie Cann | 22/02/1999 | Ipswich | Labour | Signed |
Robin Corbett | 22/02/1999 | Birmingham, Erdington | Labour | Signed |
Gordon Prentice | 22/02/1999 | Pendle | Labour | Signed |
Fraser Kemp | 22/02/1999 | Houghton & Washington East | Labour | Signed |
Andrew Love | 22/02/1999 | Edmonton | Labour Co-operative | Signed |
John McAllion | 22/02/1999 | Dundee East | Labour | Signed |
Kevin McNamara | 22/02/1999 | Kingston upon Hull North | Labour | Signed |
Gordon Marsden | 22/02/1999 | Blackpool South | Labour | Signed |
Angela Smith | 23/02/1999 | Basildon | Labour Co-operative | Signed |
Ivan Henderson | 23/02/1999 | Harwich | Labour | Signed |
Alan Campbell | 23/02/1999 | Tynemouth | Labour | Signed |
Ian Cawsey | 23/02/1999 | Brigg & Goole | Labour | Signed |
David Chaytor | 23/02/1999 | Bury North | Labour | Signed |
Jim Fitzpatrick | 23/02/1999 | Poplar & Canning Town | Labour | Signed |
Joe Ashton | 23/02/1999 | Bassetlaw | Labour | Signed |
Mark Todd | 23/02/1999 | South Derbyshire | Labour | Signed |
Diana Organ | 24/02/1999 | Forest of Dean | Labour | Signed |
Derek Wyatt | 24/02/1999 | Sittingbourne & Sheppey | Labour | Signed |
Bob Blizzard | 24/02/1999 | Waveney | Labour | Signed |
Harold Best | 24/02/1999 | Leeds North West | Labour | Signed |
Tony Benn | 24/02/1999 | Chesterfield | Labour | Signed |
Martin Caton | 24/02/1999 | Gower | Labour | Signed |
Martin O'Neill | 25/02/1999 | Ochil | Labour | Signed |
John Cryer | 01/03/1999 | Hornchurch | Labour | Signed |
Joan Walley | 02/03/1999 | Stoke-on-Trent North | Labour | Signed |
Candy Atherton | 02/03/1999 | Falmouth & Camborne | Labour | Signed |
Harry Cohen | 02/03/1999 | Leyton & Wanstead | Labour | Signed |
Syd Rapson | 02/03/1999 | Portsmouth North | Labour | Signed |
Raymond Powell | 02/03/1999 | Ogmore | Labour | Signed |
Allan Rogers | 02/03/1999 | Rhondda | Labour | Signed |
Jackie Lawrence | 04/03/1999 | Preseli Pembrokeshire | Labour | Signed |
John McDonnell | 05/03/1999 | Hayes & Harlington | Labour | Signed |
Julia Drown | 08/03/1999 | South Swindon | Labour | Signed |
Peter Luff | 09/03/1999 | Mid Worcestershire | Conservative | Signed |
Ronnie Fearn | 09/03/1999 | Southport | Liberal Democrat | Signed |
Barry Sheerman | 10/03/1999 | Huddersfield | Labour Co-operative | Signed |
Janet Dean | 10/03/1999 | Burton | Labour | Signed |
Joe Benton | 11/03/1999 | Bootle | Labour | Signed |
Ian Davidson | 12/03/1999 | Glasgow, Pollok | Labour Co-operative | Signed |
Maria Eagle | 12/03/1999 | Liverpool, Garston | Labour | Signed |
Alan Keen | 15/03/1999 | Feltham & Heston | Labour Co-operative | Signed |
Nick Harvey | 15/03/1999 | North Devon | Liberal Democrat | Signed |
Richard Allan | 16/03/1999 | Sheffield, Hallam | Liberal Democrat | Signed |
Kerry Pollard | 18/03/1999 | St Albans | Labour | Signed |
Keith Darvill | 23/03/1999 | Upminster | Labour | Signed |
Russell Brown | 24/03/1999 | Dumfries | Labour | Signed |
Anthony D Wright | 24/03/1999 | Great Yarmouth | Labour | Signed |
Martin Salter | 29/03/1999 | Reading West | Labour | Signed |
Sandra Osborne | 29/03/1999 | Ayr | Labour | Signed |
Bill Etherington | 13/04/1999 | Sunderland North | Labour | Signed |
Desmond Turner | 13/04/1999 | Brighton, Kemptown | Labour | Signed |
Ken Livingstone | 05/05/1999 | Brent East | Labour | Signed |
Diane Abbott | 10/05/1999 | Hackney North & Stoke Newington | Labour | Signed |
Louise Ellman | 11/05/1999 | Liverpool, Riverside | Labour Co-operative | Signed |
Alan Johnson | Unknown | | | Withdrawn |
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