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Barriers To Post Office Card Account Use

EDM number 628 in 2003-04, proposed by Michael Connarty on 12/02/2004.

That this House is deeply concerned at the contents of documents circulated by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) in the name of Mr Alan Linton, PMP Project Manager, in October 2003 which outlines a strategy to use informed choice discussions to persuade nine out of 10 customers to agree to be paid by direct payment while instructing staff to persuade customers that they should not choose Post Office Card Accounts; notes that performance managers would be given the task of setting performance forecasts against which DWP areas would be benchmarked; recognises that this approach by DWP is a move beyond the previously obstructive approach to customers seeking a Post Office Card Account to an aggressive programme to prevent a free and open choice by elderly people and other DWP customers to get their payments through the Post Office; and calls on the DWP to bring in simplified procedures to allow access by those who wish to be paid through a Post Office Card Account.

This motion has been signed by a total of 110 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Michael Connarty12/02/2004Falkirk EastLabourProposed
Chris Smith12/02/2004Islington South & FinsburyLabourSigned
Geraldine Smith12/02/2004Morecambe & LunesdaleLabourSigned
Kate Hoey12/02/2004VauxhallLabourSigned
Lindsay Hoyle12/02/2004ChorleyLabourSigned
Tony Clarke12/02/2004Northampton SouthLabourSigned
Adam Price23/02/2004Carmarthen East & DinefwrPlaid CymruSigned
Brian Iddon23/02/2004Bolton South EastLabourSigned
Elfyn Llwyd23/02/2004Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Kevin McNamara23/02/2004Kingston upon Hull NorthLabourSigned
Rudi Vis23/02/2004Finchley & Golders GreenLabourSigned
Robert Wareing23/02/2004Liverpool, West DerbyLabourSigned
Martin Smyth24/02/2004Belfast SouthUUPSigned
Bob Spink24/02/2004Castle PointConservativeSigned
Paul Holmes24/02/2004ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSigned
Glenda Jackson24/02/2004Hampstead & HighgateLabourSigned
Lynne Jones24/02/2004Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Rob Marris24/02/2004Wolverhampton South WestLabourSigned
Martin Caton24/02/2004GowerLabourSigned
Andrew George24/02/2004St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Harold Best24/02/2004Leeds North WestLabourSigned
David Taylor24/02/2004North West LeicestershireLabour Co-operativeSigned
Simon Thomas24/02/2004CeredigionPlaid CymruSigned
Syd Rapson25/02/2004Portsmouth NorthLabourSigned
David Marshall25/02/2004Glasgow, ShettlestonLabourSigned
Alan Meale25/02/2004MansfieldLabourSigned
Edward O'Hara25/02/2004Knowsley SouthLabourSigned
Colin Burgon25/02/2004ElmetLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn25/02/2004Islington NorthLabourSigned
Andrew Dismore25/02/2004HendonLabourSigned
Jim Dobbin25/02/2004Heywood & MiddletonLabour Co-operativeSigned
John Austin25/02/2004Erith & ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Derek Wyatt25/02/2004Sittingbourne & SheppeyLabourSigned
Nigel Jones26/02/2004CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
David Chaytor26/02/2004Bury NorthLabourSigned
David Hamilton26/02/2004MidlothianLabourSigned
Dennis Turner26/02/2004Wolverhampton South EastLabour Co-operativeSigned
Kelvin Hopkins27/02/2004Luton NorthLabourSigned
Gwyn Prosser01/03/2004DoverLabourSigned
Alex Salmond01/03/2004Banff & BuchanScottish National PartySigned
Lady Hermon01/03/2004North DownUUPSigned
Colin Challen01/03/2004Morley & RothwellLabourSigned
Bill Etherington01/03/2004Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Neil Gerrard01/03/2004WalthamstowLabourSigned
David Heyes02/03/2004Ashton-under-LyneLabourSigned
David Drew02/03/2004StroudLabour Co-operativeSigned
Win Griffiths02/03/2004BridgendLabourSigned
Andrew Stunell02/03/2004Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
Janet Dean03/03/2004BurtonLabourSigned
Parmjit Dhanda04/03/2004GloucesterLabourSigned
John Pugh04/03/2004SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Simpson04/03/2004Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Eric Illsley04/03/2004Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Brian White04/03/2004North East Milton KeynesLabourSigned
Roger Godsiff08/03/2004Birmingham, Sparkbrook & Small HeathLabourSigned
Mike Wood08/03/2004Batley & SpenLabourSigned
Nick Harvey10/03/2004North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
Peter Atkinson10/03/2004HexhamConservativeSigned
Jim Cousins11/03/2004Newcastle upon Tyne CentralLabourSigned
Dai Havard12/03/2004Merthyr Tydfil & RhymneyLabourSigned
Paul Truswell15/03/2004PudseyLabourSigned
Betty Williams15/03/2004ConwyLabourSigned
George Mudie16/03/2004Leeds EastLabourSigned
Martin O'Neill18/03/2004OchilLabourSigned
Sandra Gidley18/03/2004RomseyLiberal DemocratSigned
David Wright18/03/2004TelfordLabourSigned
Caroline Spelman22/03/2004MeridenConservativeSigned
John Barrett22/03/2004Edinburgh WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Hugo Swire22/03/2004East DevonConservativeSigned
Jonathan Sayeed23/03/2004Mid BedfordshireConservativeSigned
Wayne David23/03/2004CaerphillyLabourSigned
Cheryl Gillan23/03/2004Chesham & AmershamConservativeSigned
David Amess23/03/2004Southend WestConservativeSigned
Roger Berry23/03/2004KingswoodLabourSigned
Paul Farrelly24/03/2004Newcastle-under-LymeLabourSigned
Peter Luff25/03/2004Mid WorcestershireConservativeSigned
Gerry Steinberg25/03/2004Durham, City ofLabourSigned
David Wilshire25/03/2004SpelthorneConservativeSigned
Marsha Singh26/03/2004Bradford WestLabourSigned
Oliver Heald26/03/2004North East HertfordshireConservativeSigned
David Crausby26/03/2004Bolton North EastLabourSigned
Philip Hammond26/03/2004Runnymede & WeybridgeConservativeSigned
John Mann29/03/2004BassetlawLabourSigned
Jeff Ennis29/03/2004Barnsley East & MexboroughLabourSigned
Alan Williams30/03/2004Swansea WestLabourSigned
Stephen Hepburn31/03/2004JarrowLabourSigned
Peter Duncan31/03/2004Galloway & Upper NithsdaleConservativeSigned
Barbara Follett31/03/2004StevenageLabourSigned
Andrew Hunter01/04/2004BasingstokeIndependent ConservativeSigned
Jim Dowd01/04/2004Lewisham WestLabourSigned
Bill Tynan01/04/2004Hamilton SouthLabourSigned
Doug Henderson19/04/2004Newcastle upon Tyne NorthLabourSigned
Hywel Francis19/04/2004AberavonLabourSigned
Simon Hughes28/04/2004North Southwark & BermondseyLiberal DemocratSigned
David Chidgey28/04/2004EastleighLiberal DemocratSigned
Brian Jenkins04/05/2004TamworthLabourSigned
David Clelland04/05/2004Tyne BridgeLabourSigned
George Stevenson04/05/2004Stoke-on-Trent SouthLabourSigned
Charles Hendry05/05/2004WealdenConservativeSigned
Andrew Murrison06/05/2004WestburyConservativeSigned
Austin Mitchell14/05/2004Great GrimsbyLabourSigned
Tony McWalter17/05/2004Hemel HempsteadLabour Co-operativeSigned
Diane Abbott25/05/2004Hackney North & Stoke NewingtonLabourSigned
John Bercow26/05/2004BuckinghamConservativeSigned
Chris Grayling24/06/2004Epsom & EwellConservativeSigned
Bill Wiggin24/06/2004LeominsterConservativeSigned
David Willetts29/06/2004HavantConservativeSigned
Patrick Mercer07/09/2004NewarkConservativeSigned
Angela Watkinson08/09/2004UpminsterConservativeSigned
Nigel Evans01/11/2004Ribble ValleyConservativeSigned

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