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Supermarket Power

EDM number 345 in 2007-08, proposed by Andrew George on 21/11/2007.
Categorised under the topics of Competition, Consumers and Service industries.

That this House welcomes the provisional conclusion of the Competition Commission's Groceries Market Inquiry that the way some supermarkets treat their suppliers transfers unexpected costs and excessive risk which is likely to affect their ability to invest and innovate and which could harm product quality, innovation and ultimately choice for consumers; but is concerned that the Competition Commission proposes a further weakening of appropriate planning controls on out-of-town supermarket developments; notes, in spite of perpetual inquiries into this sector by the competition authorities over the past decade, the oligopolistic nature of the grocery retail market whereby four big supermarkets run 80 per cent. of the trade and that, at the present rate of change, this will result in fewer, perhaps two or three, having more than 90 per cent. of trade within a decade; is aware that suppliers like British farmer co-operatives often face short-notice alterations to the usually unwritten contractual terms whereby they have to fund promotionals, pay for shelf space, meet excessive costs of supermarkets' favoured packaging, haulage, complaints, underwrite the supermarkets' margins and face late payment of bills amongst other practices; and calls upon the Government to support the Competition Commission's finding in respect of suppliers and to assist in the drawing up of a new supermarket code of practice backed by a rigorous and proactive inspection regime to give suppliers and consumers the reasonable protection and reassurance they both need and deserve.

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

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Andrew George21/11/2007St IvesLiberal DemocratProposed
David Drew21/11/2007StroudLabourSeconded
Paul Holmes21/11/2007ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSeconded
Colin Breed21/11/2007South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSeconded
Jim Dowd21/11/2007Lewisham WestLabourSeconded
Bob Russell21/11/2007ColchesterLiberal DemocratSeconded
Lindsay Hoyle21/11/2007ChorleyLabourSigned
Annette Brooke22/11/2007Mid Dorset and North PooleLiberal DemocratSigned
Mark Williams22/11/2007CeredigionLiberal DemocratSigned
Richard Younger-Ross22/11/2007TeignbridgeLiberal DemocratSigned
Nicholas Winterton22/11/2007MacclesfieldConservativeSigned
David Taylor22/11/2007North West LeicestershireLabourSigned
Bill Etherington22/11/2007Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Janet Dean22/11/2007BurtonLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn22/11/2007Islington NorthLabourSigned
Alan Meale22/11/2007MansfieldLabourSigned
Lynne Jones22/11/2007Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
John Horam22/11/2007OrpingtonConservativeSigned
Kelvin Hopkins22/11/2007Luton NorthLabourSigned
Bob Spink22/11/2007Castle PointConservativeSigned
Adrian Sanders22/11/2007TorbayLiberal DemocratSigned
John Pugh22/11/2007SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
Gwyn Prosser26/11/2007DoverLabourSigned
Sandra Osborne26/11/2007Ayr, Carrick and CumnockLabourSigned
Martin Caton26/11/2007GowerLabourSigned
Brian Binley26/11/2007Northampton SouthConservativeSigned
Ann Cryer27/11/2007KeighleyLabourSigned
Jim Devine27/11/2007LivingstonLabourSigned
Stephen Williams27/11/2007Bristol WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Mike Hancock27/11/2007Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
David Lepper27/11/2007Brighton, PavilionLabourSigned
Lorely Burt27/11/2007SolihullLiberal DemocratSigned
William McCrea28/11/2007South AntrimDUPSigned
Alasdair McDonnell28/11/2007Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
John McDonnell28/11/2007Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Gregory Campbell28/11/2007East LondonderryDUPSigned
Neil Gerrard28/11/2007WalthamstowLabourSigned
Rudi Vis28/11/2007Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
John Leech28/11/2007Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Mark Hunter28/11/2007CheadleLiberal DemocratSigned
Greg Mulholland29/11/2007Leeds North WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Mark Durkan03/12/2007FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Nick Harvey03/12/2007North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
David Hamilton04/12/2007MidlothianLabourSigned
Lembit 05/12/2007MontgomeryshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Jabez Foster06/12/2007Hastings and RyeLabourSigned
Alan Simpson10/12/2007Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Kerry McCarthy10/12/2007Bristol EastLabourSigned
Jo Swinson12/12/2007East DunbartonshireLiberal DemocratSigned
John Austin18/12/2007Erith and ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Adrian Bailey18/12/2007West Bromwich WestLabourSigned
David Howarth08/01/2008CambridgeLiberal DemocratSigned
Lynne Featherstone09/01/2008Hornsey and Wood GreenLiberal DemocratSigned
Eric Illsley05/02/2008Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Gordon Banks30/06/2008Ochil and South PerthshireLabourSigned

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