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Workforce Modernisation In The Prison Service

EDM number 834 in 2008-09, proposed by Neil Gerrard on 23/02/2009.
Categorised under the topic of Prisons.

That this House notes prison officers' overwhelming rejection of the Government's workforce modernisation proposals for the Prison Service, with around 84 per cent. voting against the measures; further notes that the proposed re-structuring includes measures that could threaten to de-skill the workforce with the introduction of a new lower grade and lower paid prison officer, a compulsory annual fitness test as opposed to continuous occupational health monitoring with appropriate support and non-consolidated pay awards after a year which would disadvantage prison officers' pensions; regrets the low morale already amongst prison officers due to increasing workloads, a soaring prison population, lack of investment in frontline staff, privatisation and the denial of basic trade union rights; believes that efficiency savings should not come at the cost of unsafe working conditions and practices; and urges the Government to halt the implementation of workforce modernisation and instead enter into meaningful negotiations with the Prison Officers' Association.

This motion has been signed by a total of 41 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Neil Gerrard23/02/2009WalthamstowLabourProposed
John McDonnell23/02/2009Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSeconded
Frank Cook23/02/2009Stockton NorthLabourSeconded
Katy Clark23/02/2009North Ayrshire and ArranLabourSeconded
David Drew23/02/2009StroudLabourSeconded
Alan Meale24/02/2009MansfieldLabourSeconded
Mike Hancock24/02/2009Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Robert Wareing24/02/2009Liverpool, West DerbyIndependentSigned
David Taylor24/02/2009North West LeicestershireLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn24/02/2009Islington NorthLabourSigned
Martin Caton24/02/2009GowerLabourSigned
Gregory Campbell24/02/2009East LondonderryDUPSigned
Colin Burgon24/02/2009ElmetLabourSigned
Lynne Jones24/02/2009Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Bob Russell24/02/2009ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Simpson25/02/2009Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
David Simpson25/02/2009Upper BannDUPSigned
Kelvin Hopkins25/02/2009Luton NorthLabourSigned
Rudi Vis25/02/2009Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Dai Davies25/02/2009Blaenau GwentIndependentSigned
William McCrea26/02/2009South AntrimDUPSigned
Ann Cryer26/02/2009KeighleyLabourSigned
Malcolm Moss27/02/2009North East CambridgeshireConservativeSigned
Janet Dean27/02/2009BurtonLabourSigned
Geraldine Smith02/03/2009Morecambe and LunesdaleLabourSigned
David Anderson02/03/2009BlaydonLabourSigned
John Leech03/03/2009Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Elfyn Llwyd04/03/2009Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Bill Etherington04/03/2009Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins05/03/2009TamworthLabourSigned
Bill Olner05/03/2009NuneatonLabourSigned
David Borrow09/03/2009South RibbleLabourSigned
John Hemming09/03/2009Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Eric Illsley10/03/2009Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Lady Hermon11/03/2009North DownUUPSigned
Mike Wood11/03/2009Batley and SpenLabourSigned
Daniel Kawczynski11/03/2009Shrewsbury and AtchamConservativeSigned
Joan Walley27/03/2009Stoke-on-Trent NorthLabourSigned
Kate Hoey29/04/2009VauxhallLabourSigned
Greg Knight14/07/2009East YorkshireConservativeSigned
Ian GibsonUnknownWithdrawn

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