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Post Office Closures And The Sustainable Communities Bill

EDM number 131 in 2006-07, proposed by Mark Williams on 16/11/2006.

That this House is concerned at the ongoing decline of numbers of post offices; notes that post office closures often impact most heavily on rural communities; acknowledges that post offices are one of the local services that help create sustainable communities; welcomes the measures to empower local communities to keep their post offices if they so wish; and supports the provisions of the Sustainable Communities Bill and hopes that they will be introduced in this Parliament.

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

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Mark Williams16/11/2006CeredigionLiberal DemocratProposed
Peter Bottomley20/11/2006Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Andrew George20/11/2006St IvesLiberal DemocratSeconded
David Drew20/11/2006StroudLabourSeconded
Paul Holmes20/11/2006ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSeconded
Anne Main21/11/2006St AlbansConservativeSeconded
Albert Owen21/11/2006Ynys MLabourSigned
John Leech21/11/2006Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Derek Conway21/11/2006Old Bexley & SidcupConservativeSigned
Gregory Campbell21/11/2006East LondonderryDUPSigned
Elfyn Llwyd21/11/2006Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Lynne Jones21/11/2006Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
David Simpson22/11/2006Upper BannDUPSigned
Dan Rogerson22/11/2006North CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Jeffrey M Donaldson22/11/2006Lagan ValleyDUPSigned
Martin Caton22/11/2006GowerLabourSigned
Annette Brooke22/11/2006Mid Dorset and North PooleLiberal DemocratSigned
Colin Breed22/11/2006South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Alasdair McDonnell22/11/2006Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Nick Harvey22/11/2006North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
Bob Spink22/11/2006Castle PointConservativeSigned
Iris Robinson22/11/2006StrangfordDUPSigned
Brian Jenkins23/11/2006TamworthLabourSigned
Madeleine Moon23/11/2006BridgendLabourSigned
John Hemming23/11/2006Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Sammy Wilson23/11/2006East AntrimDUPSigned
Edward Davey23/11/2006Kingston and SurbitonLiberal DemocratSigned
Ann Cryer23/11/2006KeighleyLabourSigned
Evan Harris23/11/2006Oxford West and AbingdonLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Farrelly23/11/2006Newcastle-under-LymeLabourSigned
John McDonnell27/11/2006Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Nigel Evans27/11/2006Ribble ValleyConservativeSigned
Mark Hunter28/11/2006CheadleLiberal DemocratSigned
Rudi Vis29/11/2006Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Jo Swinson29/11/2006East DunbartonshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Nigel Dodds30/11/2006Belfast NorthDUPSigned
Andrew Stunell30/11/2006Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Simpson30/11/2006Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Jessica Morden04/12/2006Newport EastLabourSigned
David Anderson06/12/2006BlaydonLabourSigned
Graham Stuart06/12/2006Beverley and HoldernessConservativeSigned
David Howarth12/12/2006CambridgeLiberal DemocratSigned
Christopher Fraser19/12/2006South West NorfolkConservativeSigned
Gwyn Prosser08/01/2007DoverLabourSigned
John Austin19/01/2007Erith and ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Eddie McGrady02/02/2007South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
John Barrett19/02/2007Edinburgh WestLiberal DemocratSigned

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