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Train Operating Company And Parking Charges

EDM number 594 in 2008-09, proposed by Bob Spink on 27/01/2009.
Categorised under the topic of Railways.

That this House notes the policy of train operating companies (TOCs) to make extortionate increases in car parking charges, including in NCP operated car parks; for instance, parking at Leigh-on-Sea station over the last three years was increased by 25 per cent. to £700 for an annual season ticket; believes TOCs are abusing their monopoly position on parking at rail stations and thereby both profiteering and discouraging commuters from travelling by train; calls on TOCs to explain the basis of the latest increases and to stop abusing their monopoly position, particularly at this time of economic difficulty; and calls on the Government to investigate the increases.

This motion has been signed by a total of 28 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Bob Spink27/01/2009Castle PointIndependentProposed
Lindsay Hoyle27/01/2009ChorleyLabourSeconded
Jim Dobbin28/01/2009Heywood and MiddletonLabourSeconded
Gregory Campbell28/01/2009East LondonderryDUPSeconded
Paul Holmes28/01/2009ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSeconded
Jeremy Corbyn28/01/2009Islington NorthLabourSeconded
Alan Simpson28/01/2009Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Lynne Jones28/01/2009Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Robert Wareing28/01/2009Liverpool, West DerbyIndependentSigned
John Leech28/01/2009Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Graham Stringer29/01/2009Manchester, BlackleyLabourSigned
Nicholas Winterton29/01/2009MacclesfieldConservativeSigned
Mike Hancock02/02/2009Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Bill Etherington04/02/2009Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Katy Clark04/02/2009North Ayrshire and ArranLabourSigned
Betty Williams04/02/2009ConwyLabourSigned
Rudi Vis04/02/2009Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Simon Hughes04/02/2009North Southwark and BermondseyLiberal DemocratSigned
John Pugh05/02/2009SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
Roger Williams05/02/2009Brecon and RadnorshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Janet Dean09/02/2009BurtonLabourSigned
John Austin09/02/2009Erith and ThamesmeadLabourSigned
David Hamilton11/02/2009MidlothianLabourSigned
Richard Younger-Ross23/02/2009TeignbridgeLiberal DemocratSigned
Brian Jenkins24/02/2009TamworthLabourSigned
Michael Clapham24/02/2009Barnsley West and PenistoneLabourSigned
John McDonnell27/02/2009Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Iris Robinson16/03/2009StrangfordDUPSigned

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