UK Biscuit Industry
EDM number 571 in 1999-00, proposed by David Taylor on 29/03/2000.
That this House is concerned about the acquisition of United Biscuits plc. by the Finalrealm consortium, which would lead to a dangerous concentration of ownership in the UK biscuit market with Finalrealm controlling 60 per cent; notes that partners in this consortium include Danone, which dominates the French biscuit market and owns British-based Jacobs, and also Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst, an American leveraged buy-out firm which already owns Hillsdown Holdings and its subsidiary Horizon Biscuits; notes that the resultant rationalisation would lead to the loss of 3,000 manufacturing jobs; and calls upon Her Majesty's Government urgently to examine this acquisition through the Department of Trade and Industry and appropriate UK competition authorities.
This motion has been signed by a total of 111 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.
| MP | Date | Constituency | Party | Type |
|---|
| David Taylor | 29/03/2000 | North West Leicestershire | Labour Co-operative | Proposed |
| Russell Brown | 29/03/2000 | Dumfries | Labour | Seconded |
| Brian H Donohoe | 29/03/2000 | Cunninghame South | Labour | Seconded |
| Austin Mitchell | 29/03/2000 | Great Grimsby | Labour | Seconded |
| Joan Humble | 29/03/2000 | Blackpool North & Fleetwood | Labour | Seconded |
| Peter Kilfoyle | 29/03/2000 | Liverpool, Walton | Labour | Seconded |
| Joe Benton | 29/03/2000 | Bootle | Labour | Signed |
| Gordon Prentice | 30/03/2000 | Pendle | Labour | Signed |
| Lawrie Quinn | 30/03/2000 | Scarborough & Whitby | Labour | Signed |
| Bob Russell | 30/03/2000 | Colchester | Liberal Democrat | Signed |
| Alan Simpson | 30/03/2000 | Nottingham South | Labour | Signed |
| Lindsay Hoyle | 30/03/2000 | Chorley | Labour | Signed |
| Lynne Jones | 30/03/2000 | Birmingham, Selly Oak | Labour | Signed |
| Terry Lewis | 30/03/2000 | Worsley | Labour | Signed |
| Alice Mahon | 30/03/2000 | Halifax | Labour | Signed |
| Kevin McNamara | 30/03/2000 | Kingston upon Hull North | Labour | Signed |
| David Crausby | 30/03/2000 | Bolton North East | Labour | Signed |
| Norman Godman | 30/03/2000 | Greenock & Inverclyde | Labour | Signed |
| John Austin | 30/03/2000 | Erith & Thamesmead | Labour | Signed |
| David Borrow | 30/03/2000 | South Ribble | Labour | Signed |
| Angela Smith | 03/04/2000 | Basildon | Labour Co-operative | Signed |
| Barry Jones | 03/04/2000 | Alyn & Deeside | Labour | Signed |
| Frank Cook | 03/04/2000 | Stockton North | Labour | Signed |
| Jeremy Corbyn | 03/04/2000 | Islington North | Labour | Signed |
| Bill Etherington | 03/04/2000 | Sunderland North | Labour | Signed |
| Harry Barnes | 03/04/2000 | North East Derbyshire | Labour | Signed |
| Bill Michie | 04/04/2000 | Sheffield, Heeley | Labour | Signed |
| Vincent Cable | 04/04/2000 | Twickenham | Liberal Democrat | Signed |
| George Stevenson | 04/04/2000 | Stoke-on-Trent South | Labour | Signed |
| Brian Sedgemore | 05/04/2000 | Hackney South & Shoreditch | Labour | Signed |
| Dennis Skinner | 05/04/2000 | Bolsover | Labour | Signed |
| Gerald Kaufman | 05/04/2000 | Manchester, Gorton | Labour | Signed |
| Andrew Love | 05/04/2000 | Edmonton | Labour Co-operative | Signed |
| John Cryer | 05/04/2000 | Hornchurch | Labour | Signed |
| John Cummings | 05/04/2000 | Easington | Labour | Signed |
| Janet Dean | 05/04/2000 | Burton | Labour | Signed |
| Jim Dobbin | 05/04/2000 | Heywood & Middleton | Labour Co-operative | Signed |
| Frank Field | 05/04/2000 | Birkenhead | Labour | Signed |
| Tommy Graham | 05/04/2000 | West Renfrewshire | Independent Labour | Signed |
| Jane Griffiths | 05/04/2000 | Reading East | Labour | Signed |
| Win Griffiths | 05/04/2000 | Bridgend | Labour | Signed |
| Gerry Bermingham | 05/04/2000 | St Helens South | Labour | Signed |
| Ian Stewart | 05/04/2000 | Eccles | Labour | Signed |
| Michael Foster | 06/04/2000 | Worcester | Labour | Signed |
| Bill Rammell | 06/04/2000 | Harlow | Labour | Signed |
| Martyn Jones | 06/04/2000 | Clwyd South | Labour | Signed |
| Piara S Khabra | 06/04/2000 | Ealing, Southall | Labour | Signed |
| Andrew MacKinlay | 06/04/2000 | Thurrock | Labour | Signed |
| David Marshall | 06/04/2000 | Glasgow, Shettleston | Labour | Signed |
| John McDonnell | 06/04/2000 | Hayes & Harlington | Labour | Signed |
| Bill O'Brien | 06/04/2000 | Normanton | Labour | Signed |
| Harry Cohen | 06/04/2000 | Leyton & Wanstead | Labour | Signed |
| Andrew Dismore | 06/04/2000 | Hendon | Labour | Signed |
| Ronnie Fearn | 06/04/2000 | Southport | Liberal Democrat | Signed |
| Bruce George | 06/04/2000 | Walsall South | Labour | Signed |
| Peter Bottomley | 06/04/2000 | Worthing West | Conservative | Signed |
| Gerry Steinberg | 06/04/2000 | Durham, City of | Labour | Signed |
| Andrew Stunell | 06/04/2000 | Hazel Grove | Liberal Democrat | Signed |
| Mark Todd | 06/04/2000 | South Derbyshire | Labour | Signed |
| Marsha Singh | 07/04/2000 | Bradford West | Labour | Signed |
| Gordon Marsden | 07/04/2000 | Blackpool South | Labour | Signed |
| Martin O'Neill | 07/04/2000 | Ochil | Labour | Signed |
| Martin Caton | 07/04/2000 | Gower | Labour | Signed |
| Keith Darvill | 07/04/2000 | Upminster | Labour | Signed |
| Hilary Benn | 07/04/2000 | Leeds Central | Labour | Signed |
| Peter Pike | 10/04/2000 | Burnley | Labour | Signed |
| Fraser Kemp | 10/04/2000 | Houghton & Washington East | Labour | Signed |
| Alan Meale | 10/04/2000 | Mansfield | Labour | Signed |
| Tom Cox | 10/04/2000 | Tooting | Labour | Signed |
| Lawrence Cunliffe | 10/04/2000 | Leigh | Labour | Signed |
| Ian Gibson | 10/04/2000 | Norwich North | Labour | Signed |
| Joan Ruddock | 11/04/2000 | Lewisham, Deptford | Labour | Signed |
| Adrian Sanders | 11/04/2000 | Torbay | Liberal Democrat | Signed |
| Menzies Campbell | 11/04/2000 | Fife North East | Liberal Democrat | Signed |
| Martin Salter | 12/04/2000 | Reading West | Labour | Signed |
| Julia Drown | 12/04/2000 | South Swindon | Labour | Signed |
| Roy Beggs | 12/04/2000 | East Antrim | UUP | Signed |
| David Stewart | 12/04/2000 | Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber | Labour | Signed |
| Rudi Vis | 12/04/2000 | Finchley & Golders Green | Labour | Signed |
| Mike Wood | 12/04/2000 | Batley & Spen | Labour | Signed |
| Tony Worthington | 12/04/2000 | Clydebank & Milngavie | Labour | Signed |
| Robert McCartney | 13/04/2000 | North Down | UKUP | Signed |
| Edward O'Hara | 13/04/2000 | Knowsley South | Labour | Signed |
| Ken Livingstone | 14/04/2000 | Brent East | Independent | Signed |
| George Galloway | 14/04/2000 | Glasgow, Kelvin | Labour | Signed |
| Kelvin Hopkins | 17/04/2000 | Luton North | Labour | Signed |
| Eric Illsley | 17/04/2000 | Barnsley Central | Labour | Signed |
| Ann Cryer | 17/04/2000 | Keighley | Labour | Signed |
| Harold Best | 17/04/2000 | Leeds North West | Labour | Signed |
| David Lepper | 18/04/2000 | Brighton, Pavilion | Labour Co-operative | Signed |
| Roger Berry | 18/04/2000 | Kingswood | Labour | Signed |
| Gwyn Prosser | 19/04/2000 | Dover | Labour | Signed |
| Phil Sawford | 19/04/2000 | Kettering | Labour | Signed |
| Barry Sheerman | 19/04/2000 | Huddersfield | Labour Co-operative | Signed |
| Llin Golding | 19/04/2000 | Newcastle-under-Lyme | Labour | Signed |
| Peter Snape | 20/04/2000 | West Bromwich East | Labour | Signed |
| Desmond Turner | 20/04/2000 | Brighton, Kemptown | Labour | Signed |
| Allan Rogers | 02/05/2000 | Rhondda | Labour | Signed |
| Ann Keen | 02/05/2000 | Brentford & Isleworth | Labour | Signed |
| Andy King | 02/05/2000 | Rugby & Kenilworth | Labour | Signed |
| Anthony D Wright | 02/05/2000 | Great Yarmouth | Labour | Signed |
| Doug Henderson | 08/05/2000 | Newcastle upon Tyne North | Labour | Signed |
| Dari Taylor | 11/05/2000 | Stockton South | Labour | Signed |
| Stephen Ladyman | 18/05/2000 | South Thanet | Labour | Signed |
| Michael Connarty | 18/05/2000 | Falkirk East | Labour | Signed |
| Tony Benn | 08/06/2000 | Chesterfield | Labour | Signed |
| Tom Brake | 09/06/2000 | Carshalton & Wallington | Liberal Democrat | Signed |
| Nigel Jones | 20/06/2000 | Cheltenham | Liberal Democrat | Signed |
| Malcolm Bruce | 21/06/2000 | Gordon | Liberal Democrat | Signed |
| Donald Gorrie | 11/07/2000 | Edinburgh West | Liberal Democrat | Signed |
| Audrey Wise | Unknown | | | Withdrawn |
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