Campaign For Fairer Retail Rents (EDM437)

Campaign For Fairer Retail Rents

EDM number 437 in 2006-07, proposed by Stephen Crabb on 07/12/2006.

That this House congratulates those local authorities that have pledged their support to the British Retail Consortium's campaign to end the archaic practice of landlords demanding shop rents three months in advance by accepting retail rental payments on a monthly basis; praises them for leading by example; urges other councils and private landlords to follow suit, thereby helping their tenants continue to trade in an increasingly difficult marketplace; recognises that quarterly rental payments impose severe cashflow pressures on businesses and cost retailers an extra Â£145 million a year; and acknowledges that, in recent years, many well-known retailers and countless smaller shops have disappeared from the high street as adverse trading conditions and serious cost inflation have combined to erode margins and that greater flexibility in commercial leases would go a long way in helping to reverse this trend and would help the United Kingdom's retail industry to prosper.

This motion has been signed by a total of 55 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Stephen Crabb	07/12/2006	Preseli Pembrokeshire	Conservative	Proposed
Lorely Burt	07/12/2006	Solihull	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Bob Russell	07/12/2006	Colchester	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Peter Bottomley	07/12/2006	Worthing West	Conservative	Seconded
Derek Conway	07/12/2006	Old Bexley & Sidcup	Conservative	Seconded
Danny Alexander	07/12/2006	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Andrew George	07/12/2006	St Ives	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Nicholas Winterton	07/12/2006	Macclesfield	Conservative	Signed
John Leech	11/12/2006	Manchester, Withington	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Willie Rennie	11/12/2006	Dunfermline and West Fife	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Philip Davies	11/12/2006	Shipley	Conservative	Signed
David Taylor	11/12/2006	North West Leicestershire	Labour	Signed
John McDonnell	11/12/2006	Hayes and Harlington	Labour	Signed
Brian Jenkins	11/12/2006	Tamworth	Labour	Signed
Bob Spink	11/12/2006	Castle Point	Conservative	Signed
Lindsay Hoyle	11/12/2006	Chorley	Labour	Signed
Andrew Dismore	11/12/2006	Hendon	Labour	Signed
Martin Caton	12/12/2006	Gower	Labour	Signed
Andrew Stunell	12/12/2006	Hazel Grove	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Mike Hancock	12/12/2006	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Mark Durkan	12/12/2006	Foyle	Social Democratic and Labour Party	Signed
Jeremy Corbyn	12/12/2006	Islington North	Labour	Signed
Gregory Campbell	12/12/2006	East Londonderry	DUP	Signed
David Lepper	12/12/2006	Brighton, Pavilion	Labour	Signed
Lynne Jones	12/12/2006	Birmingham, Selly Oak	Labour	Signed
Adrian Sanders	12/12/2006	Torbay	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Michael Penning	13/12/2006	Hemel Hempstead	Conservative	Signed
Elfyn Llwyd	13/12/2006	Meirionnydd Nant Conwy	Plaid Cymru	Signed
Ann Winterton	13/12/2006	Congleton	Conservative	Signed
Jeffrey M Donaldson	13/12/2006	Lagan Valley	DUP	Signed
David Crausby	13/12/2006	Bolton North East	Labour	Signed
Alasdair McDonnell	13/12/2006	Belfast South	Social Democratic and Labour Party	Signed
William McCrea	13/12/2006	South Antrim	DUP	Signed
Iris Robinson	13/12/2006	Strangford	DUP	Signed
Colin Breed	13/12/2006	South East Cornwall	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Pugh	14/12/2006	Southport	Liberal Democrat	Signed
David Simpson	14/12/2006	Upper Bann	DUP	Signed
Rudi Vis	14/12/2006	Finchley and Golders Green	Labour	Signed
Mark Williams	14/12/2006	Ceredigion	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Stewart Jackson	18/12/2006	Peterborough	Conservative	Signed
Phil Willis	18/12/2006	Harrogate and Knaresborough	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Nigel Evans	18/12/2006	Ribble Valley	Conservative	Signed
Jim Dowd	18/12/2006	Lewisham West	Labour	Signed
Vincent Cable	18/12/2006	Twickenham	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Hemming	19/12/2006	Birmingham, Yardley	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Ian Austin	19/12/2006	Dudley North	Labour	Signed
Stephen Williams	19/12/2006	Bristol West	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Sammy Wilson	08/01/2007	East Antrim	DUP	Signed
Daniel Kawczynski	10/01/2007	Shrewsbury and Atcham	Conservative	Signed
Russell Brown	17/01/2007	Dumfries and Galloway	Labour	Signed
Bill Etherington	18/01/2007	Sunderland North	Labour	Signed
Nick Harvey	22/01/2007	North Devon	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Andrew Pelling	25/01/2007	Croydon Central	Conservative	Signed
Angela Watkinson	01/02/2007	Upminster	Conservative	Signed
Jo Swinson	01/02/2007	East Dunbartonshire	Liberal Democrat	Signed

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