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EDM number 985 in 2002-03, proposed by Austin Mitchell on 31/03/2003.

That this House calls on the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to think again about any ill advised proposals to consult the overpaid exploiter of underpaid labour, James Dyson, about innovation or any other aspect of industrial development; points out that any offered advisory appointed or consultancy role for this opinionated self publicist is an insult to the 800 British workers who built up his business and were made redundant as a reward, and a signal to budding entrepreneurs to go east and are a DTI endorsement of such greedy unpatriotic and unprincipled tactics; and therefore suggests that the best role for Mr Dyson would be as an advisor to the Malaysian Government on enhancing the pay and job protection of Malaysian workers, so as to prevent them being exploited to boost the profits of foreign capitalists fleeing their obligations to the nations which nurtured their businesses in the first place.

This motion has been signed by a total of 22 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Austin Mitchell31/03/2003Great GrimsbyLabourProposed
Bob Russell01/04/2003ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Colin Breed01/04/2003South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Harry Cohen01/04/2003Leyton & WansteadLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn01/04/2003Islington NorthLabourSigned
Terry Lewis02/04/2003WorsleyLabourSigned
Alice Mahon02/04/2003HalifaxLabourSigned
Robert Wareing02/04/2003Liverpool, West DerbyLabourSigned
Alan Simpson03/04/2003Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Michael Clapham03/04/2003Barnsley West & PenistoneLabourSigned
Mike Hancock07/04/2003Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
John McDonnell07/04/2003Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
Syd Rapson08/04/2003Portsmouth NorthLabourSigned
Kevin McNamara08/04/2003Kingston upon Hull NorthLabourSigned
Ann Cryer08/04/2003KeighleyLabourSigned
Phil Sawford09/04/2003KetteringLabourSigned
Llew Smith09/04/2003Blaenau GwentLabourSigned
Rudi Vis09/04/2003Finchley & Golders GreenLabourSigned
John Cryer10/04/2003HornchurchLabourSigned
Mike Wood10/04/2003Batley & SpenLabourSigned
Bill Etherington28/04/2003Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Nigel Jones22/05/2003CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned

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