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The Future Of The Independent Grocery Sector

EDM number 260 in 2006-07, proposed by David Taylor on 23/11/2006.

That this House recognises the independent grocery sector to be at a crossroads because of the further inexorable rise of superstores mirrored by a decline of traditional independent businesses; believes that a key bulwark against this has been NISA - the mutually owned and largest buying consortium for small traders in the United Kingdom, comprising almost 1,000 independent businesses with a turnover of billions, employing thousands of staff, giving local convenience stores the collective buying power to drive down costs and therefore prices for the customers; notes with concern that the board of directors are steering the company towards demutualisation and that Icelandic Investment Bankers (IIB) wish to buy a stake in the business with a view to a possible future flotation, with grave implications for the viability of independent NISA businesses as the investment returns expected by IIB would drive up prices in the supply chain making the independents less competitive and the multiples even more dominant; welcomes the fact that a group of shareholders, the NISA Members' Association (NMA) have resisted IIB overtures in order to protect this cornerstone of truly independent supply in the grocery sector and is now seeking Board representation at the company annual general meeting on 28th November 2006 on a platform of maintaining mutual status and modernising the business; and urges all hon. and right hon. Members to back the NMA campaign in the belief that mutuality and independence are the watchwords of a secure future for the independent grocery sector.

This motion has been signed by a total of 36 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
David Taylor23/11/2006North West LeicestershireLabourProposed
Peter Bottomley27/11/2006Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Lynne Jones27/11/2006Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSeconded
Jim Dobbin27/11/2006Heywood and MiddletonLabourSeconded
Bob Spink27/11/2006Castle PointConservativeSeconded
Brian Jenkins27/11/2006TamworthLabourSeconded
Mike Hancock27/11/2006Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Gordon Prentice28/11/2006PendleLabourSigned
Lindsay Hoyle28/11/2006ChorleyLabourSigned
Alan Meale28/11/2006MansfieldLabourSigned
Martin Caton28/11/2006GowerLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn28/11/2006Islington NorthLabourSigned
David Drew28/11/2006StroudLabourSigned
Mark Durkan28/11/2006FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Roger Williams28/11/2006Brecon and RadnorshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Willie Rennie28/11/2006Dunfermline and West FifeLiberal DemocratSigned
Rudi Vis29/11/2006Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Gregory Campbell29/11/2006East LondonderryDUPSigned
Lady Hermon29/11/2006North DownUUPSigned
Albert Owen29/11/2006Ynys MLabourSigned
Derek Conway30/11/2006Old Bexley & SidcupConservativeSigned
Nigel Dodds30/11/2006Belfast NorthDUPSigned
Andrew George30/11/2006St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew Stunell30/11/2006Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
Madeleine Moon30/11/2006BridgendLabourSigned
David Simpson04/12/2006Upper BannDUPSigned
Bill Etherington04/12/2006Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
William McCrea05/12/2006South AntrimDUPSigned
Janet Dean05/12/2006BurtonLabourSigned
Paul Murphy05/12/2006TorfaenLabourSigned
Alasdair McDonnell05/12/2006Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Nia Griffith06/12/2006LlanelliLabourSigned
John Hemming11/12/2006Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Simpson13/12/2006Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Jeff Ennis13/12/2006Barnsley East and MexboroughLabourSigned
David Hamilton13/12/2006MidlothianLabourSigned

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