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Smoking Legislation For Membership Clubs

EDM number 685 in 2005-06, proposed by Bob Spink on 10/10/2005.

That this House welcomes the Government's consultation on legislation to provide smoke-free environments; supports the intention to exempt membership clubs which generally have done a good job of listening to and balancing varying views of members in this sensitive area; believes that the proposal to enshrine a mandatory annual ballot on the issue is needlessly bureaucratic and expensive; and calls on the Government to drop the ballot in favour of an annual review at the club's Annual General Meeting which would better meet the Government's general deregulation objectives.

This motion has been signed by a total of 11 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Bob Spink10/10/2005Castle PointConservativeProposed
Mike Hancock11/10/2005Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSeconded
Rudi Vis12/10/2005Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSeconded
Brian Iddon12/10/2005Bolton South EastLabourSeconded
Ann Winterton13/10/2005CongletonConservativeSeconded
Bill Etherington14/10/2005Sunderland NorthLabourSeconded
Betty Williams17/10/2005ConwyLabourSigned
John Cummings18/10/2005EasingtonLabourSigned
Albert Owen25/10/2005Ynys MLabourSigned
Vincent Cable27/10/2005TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew Rosindell28/11/2005RomfordConservativeSigned

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