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York Sugar Factory

EDM number 2631 in 2005-06, proposed by Hugh Bayley on 24/07/2006.

That this House expresses its concern about British Sugar's proposal to close its York sugar factory; calls on the company to explore alternatives to closure with its employees and their trade unions, and with its sugar beet growers and the National Farmers Union; asks the Government to publish a comparison of the average amount per employee payable under the statutory redundancy scheme with the average amount of compensation payable to sugar beet farmers under the EU farm payments scheme; calls on British Sugar, if it does close the factory, to seek to minimise the number of compulsory redundancies, and to compensate their redundant employees as generously as the Government and the company compensate farmers who cease growing sugar beet; calls on British Sugar to offer north of England growers contracts to supply sugar beet to their Newark factory; and calls on the Government to improve the administration of the Rural Payments Agency to ensure that farmers receive prompt payment of the money due to them whether they cease growing beet or continue to grow the crop.

This motion has been signed by a total of 47 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Hugh Bayley24/07/2006City of YorkLabourProposed
Paddy Tipping24/07/2006SherwoodLabourSeconded
Frank Field24/07/2006BirkenheadLabourSeconded
Tony Lloyd24/07/2006Manchester CentralLabourSeconded
Joan Humble24/07/2006Blackpool North and FleetwoodLabourSeconded
Michael Clapham24/07/2006Barnsley West and PenistoneLabourSeconded
Ann Cryer24/07/2006KeighleyLabourSigned
Jim McGovern24/07/2006Dundee WestLabourSigned
Katy Clark24/07/2006North Ayrshire and ArranLabourSigned
Desmond Turner24/07/2006Brighton, KemptownLabourSigned
Peter Bottomley24/07/2006Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Roger Berry24/07/2006KingswoodLabourSigned
Jim Dobbin24/07/2006Heywood and MiddletonLabourSigned
Karen Buck24/07/2006Regent's Park and Kensington NorthLabourSigned
Eric Illsley24/07/2006Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Geraldine Smith24/07/2006Morecambe and LunesdaleLabourSigned
John Robertson24/07/2006Glasgow North WestLabourSigned
Michael Penning25/07/2006Hemel HempsteadConservativeSigned
Phil Willis25/07/2006Harrogate and KnaresboroughLiberal DemocratSigned
Betty Williams25/07/2006ConwyLabourSigned
Greg Knight25/07/2006East YorkshireConservativeSigned
Bob Spink25/07/2006Castle PointConservativeSigned
Iris Robinson25/07/2006StrangfordDUPSigned
Rudi Vis25/07/2006Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Rob Marris09/10/2006Wolverhampton South WestLabourSigned
Nicholas Winterton09/10/2006MacclesfieldConservativeSigned
Lindsay Hoyle10/10/2006ChorleyLabourSigned
William McCrea10/10/2006South AntrimDUPSigned
Albert Owen10/10/2006Ynys MLabourSigned
Ian Paisley10/10/2006North AntrimDUPSigned
Janet Anderson10/10/2006Rossendale and DarwenLabourSigned
Derek Conway11/10/2006Old Bexley & SidcupConservativeSigned
Helen Goodman11/10/2006Bishop AucklandLabourSigned
Mike Hancock11/10/2006Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Mark Durkan11/10/2006FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Martin Caton11/10/2006GowerLabourSigned
Gregory Campbell11/10/2006East LondonderryDUPSigned
Alan Simpson12/10/2006Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Marsha Singh12/10/2006Bradford WestLabourSigned
Jeff Ennis12/10/2006Barnsley East and MexboroughLabourSigned
Hywel Francis16/10/2006AberavonLabourSigned
Sammy Wilson16/10/2006East AntrimDUPSigned
Brian Jenkins19/10/2006TamworthLabourSigned
Stephen Hepburn23/10/2006JarrowLabourSigned
Bill Etherington24/10/2006Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
David Hamilton24/10/2006MidlothianLabourSigned
Paul Truswell25/10/2006PudseyLabourSigned

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