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Mis-Selling Of Landline Telephone Services

EDM number 1420 in 2003-04, proposed by Richard Allan on 30/06/2004.

That this House welcomes Ofcom's consultation on protecting consumers from the mis-selling of fixed line telephone services; notes, whilst recognising that the majority of the telecoms industry competes in a fair and proper manner, the increasing number of instances where customers have cause to complain about sales techniques and their experience of being transferred between one provider and another, often without their knowledge or proper consent; further notes the figures published recently by BT showing the scale of the problem, with more than 14,000 reports of apparent mis-selling in March alone and regularly around 10,000 a month since December 2003; further notes Ofcom's acknowledgement of the scale the problem reached in the energy industry; and calls upon Ofcom to act decisively to ensure that the same does not happen in the telecoms industry, through establishing adequate consumer protection, with the minimum requirement being the introduction of a properly enforced mandatory code of practice with effective sanctions against those that employ such underhand sales techniques.

This motion has been signed by a total of 41 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Richard Allan30/06/2004Sheffield, HallamLiberal DemocratProposed
Paul Holmes01/07/2004ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSigned
Rudi Vis01/07/2004Finchley & Golders GreenLabourSigned
Paul Tyler01/07/2004North CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Harry Barnes01/07/2004North East DerbyshireLabourSigned
Ann Cryer01/07/2004KeighleyLabourSigned
Martin Caton01/07/2004GowerLabourSigned
Brian Iddon05/07/2004Bolton South EastLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn05/07/2004Islington NorthLabourSigned
Paul Flynn05/07/2004Newport WestLabourSigned
Andrew George05/07/2004St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
David Taylor05/07/2004North West LeicestershireLabour Co-operativeSigned
Betty Williams05/07/2004ConwyLabourSigned
Nigel Jones06/07/2004CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
David Drew06/07/2004StroudLabour Co-operativeSigned
Bill Etherington06/07/2004Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
John Barrett06/07/2004Edinburgh WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Dennis Turner07/07/2004Wolverhampton South EastLabour Co-operativeSigned
Mike Hancock07/07/2004Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew Dismore07/07/2004HendonLabourSigned
Colin Breed07/07/2004South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
John McDonnell07/07/2004Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
Vincent Cable07/07/2004TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Keetch12/07/2004HerefordLiberal DemocratSigned
Rob Marris12/07/2004Wolverhampton South WestLabourSigned
Jeff Ennis12/07/2004Barnsley East & MexboroughLabourSigned
Michael Fabricant13/07/2004LichfieldConservativeSigned
Gregory Campbell14/07/2004East LondonderryDUPSigned
Adam Price15/07/2004Carmarthen East & DinefwrPlaid CymruSigned
Jim Dowd15/07/2004Lewisham WestLabourSigned
Alan Simpson16/07/2004Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Tom Brake20/07/2004Carshalton & WallingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Parmjit Dhanda21/07/2004GloucesterLabourSigned
John Robertson21/07/2004Glasgow, AnnieslandLabourSigned
Siobhain McDonagh22/07/2004Mitcham & MordenLabourSigned
Annette Brooke22/07/2004Mid Dorset & North PooleLiberal DemocratSigned
Janet Dean22/07/2004BurtonLabourSigned
Andrew Stunell22/07/2004Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
John Burnett12/10/2004Torridge & West DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
Richard Younger-Ross25/10/2004TeignbridgeLiberal DemocratSigned
Lembit 11/11/2004MontgomeryshireLiberal DemocratSigned

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