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Fairtrade And Supermarket Profit Margins

EDM number 2684 in 2005-06, proposed by Bob Russell on 09/10/2006.

That this House welcomes the increase in the range of Fairtrade food and clothing available to consumers, but regrets that of the estimated £200 million spent on certified Fairtrade products in the United Kingdom only about £42 million gets back to those in developing countries; notes with concern that British supermarkets take about 32 pence in every pound spent by customers on Fairtrade goods, generating a higher profit margin than achieved with non-Fairtrade products which is a practice also undertaken by supply chain operators; believes that public support for producers in the developing world to get fair prices for their goods, as promoted by global charity Fairtrade, is being exploited by supply chain operators and UK supermarkets; and calls on the Government to impress upon all involved in the distribution and sale of Fairtrade products not to apply profit margins higher than those for non-Fairtrade goods and preferably to apply lower margins.

This motion has been signed by a total of 77 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Bob Russell09/10/2006ColchesterLiberal DemocratProposed
John Leech10/10/2006Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSeconded
Andrew Dismore10/10/2006HendonLabourSeconded
Michael Penning10/10/2006Hemel HempsteadConservativeSeconded
Dai Davies10/10/2006Blaenau GwentIndependentSeconded
Michael Weir10/10/2006AngusScottish National PartySeconded
Albert Owen10/10/2006Ynys MLabourSigned
Ann Cryer10/10/2006KeighleyLabourSigned
Lynne Jones10/10/2006Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Lindsay Hoyle10/10/2006ChorleyLabourSigned
Paul Holmes10/10/2006ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSigned
Iris Robinson10/10/2006StrangfordDUPSigned
Derek Conway11/10/2006Old Bexley & SidcupConservativeSigned
Helen Goodman11/10/2006Bishop AucklandLabourSigned
Nicholas Winterton11/10/2006MacclesfieldConservativeSigned
Robert Wareing11/10/2006Liverpool, West DerbyLabourSigned
Rudi Vis11/10/2006Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Jon Trickett11/10/2006HemsworthLabourSigned
David Taylor11/10/2006North West LeicestershireLabourSigned
Mike Hancock11/10/2006Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Sandra Gidley11/10/2006RomseyLiberal DemocratSigned
Hywel Francis11/10/2006AberavonLabourSigned
Mark Durkan11/10/2006FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
David Drew11/10/2006StroudLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn11/10/2006Islington NorthLabourSigned
Martin Caton11/10/2006GowerLabourSigned
Colin Breed11/10/2006South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Meale11/10/2006MansfieldLabourSigned
Chris McCafferty11/10/2006Calder ValleyLabourSigned
Rob Marris11/10/2006Wolverhampton South WestLabourSigned
Katy Clark12/10/2006North Ayrshire and ArranLabourSigned
Jim Devine12/10/2006LivingstonLabourSigned
Mark Williams12/10/2006CeredigionLiberal DemocratSigned
Danny Alexander12/10/2006Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and StrathspeyLiberal DemocratSigned
John Hemming12/10/2006Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Jeff Ennis12/10/2006Barnsley East and MexboroughLabourSigned
Andrew Stunell12/10/2006Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Simpson12/10/2006Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Marsha Singh12/10/2006Bradford WestLabourSigned
Janet Dean12/10/2006BurtonLabourSigned
John McDonnell12/10/2006Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
John Pugh16/10/2006SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
Bob Spink16/10/2006Castle PointConservativeSigned
Annette Brooke16/10/2006Mid Dorset and North PooleLiberal DemocratSigned
Harry Cohen16/10/2006Leyton and WansteadLabourSigned
Neil Gerrard16/10/2006WalthamstowLabourSigned
Betty Williams16/10/2006ConwyLabourSigned
Ian Austin16/10/2006Dudley NorthLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins17/10/2006Luton NorthLabourSigned
Mark Hunter17/10/2006CheadleLiberal DemocratSigned
Stewart Jackson17/10/2006PeterboroughConservativeSigned
Desmond Turner17/10/2006Brighton, KemptownLabourSigned
Roger Godsiff17/10/2006Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small HeathLabourSigned
Vincent Cable17/10/2006TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Elfyn Llwyd17/10/2006Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Willie Rennie18/10/2006Dunfermline and West FifeLiberal DemocratSigned
Khalid Mahmood18/10/2006Birmingham, Perry BarrLabourSigned
Jim Sheridan18/10/2006Paisley and Renfrewshire NorthLabourSigned
Edward O'Hara18/10/2006Knowsley SouthLabourSigned
Julie Morgan19/10/2006Cardiff NorthLabourSigned
Christopher Huhne19/10/2006EastleighLiberal DemocratSigned
Brian Jenkins19/10/2006TamworthLabourSigned
Tim Farron19/10/2006Westmorland and LonsdaleLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Rowen19/10/2006RochdaleLiberal DemocratSigned
Nick Harvey20/10/2006North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
Derek Wyatt23/10/2006Sittingbourne and SheppeyLabourSigned
Bill Etherington24/10/2006Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Jessica Morden24/10/2006Newport EastLabourSigned
Tom Brake24/10/2006Carshalton and WallingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Truswell25/10/2006PudseyLabourSigned
Hywel Williams25/10/2006CaernarfonPlaid CymruSigned
Adam Price26/10/2006Carmarthen East and DinefwrPlaid CymruSigned
John Battle26/10/2006Leeds WestLabourSigned
John Austin30/10/2006Erith and ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Phil Willis30/10/2006Harrogate and KnaresboroughLiberal DemocratSigned
Doug Naysmith06/11/2006Bristol North WestLabourSigned
Martin Horwood06/11/2006CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned

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