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Future Of Royal Mail

EDM number 941 in 2008-09, proposed by Lindsay Hoyle on 02/03/2009.
Categorised under the topic of Postal services.

That this House recognises the importance of an efficient, publicly-owned Royal Mail business; welcomes the news that the Royal Mail made an increased profit of £255 million in the nine months to Christmas 2008; further welcomes the Royal Mail's prediction that it will nearly double the level of profit it achieved in the last financial year and that all its businesses are in profit for the first time in almost 20 years; notes with great concern proposals for the part-privatisation of Royal Mail, with Dutch mail company TNT, the front-runner to take a stake in the company, despite the fact that the company unveiled a 37 per cent. fall in profits; can see no reason why there is a requirement to sell a portion of the Royal Mail to the private sector; and urges the Government to support a wholly publicly-owned Royal Mail business with a renegotiated access agreement ending the £100 million subsidy to private companies for the delivery of their mail with a six pence increase in the access agreement, giving Royal Mail an additional £300 million profit every year, which could be paid into the pension deficit, easing the burden on the taxpayer in addition to being used for new investments.

This motion has been signed by a total of 51 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Lindsay Hoyle02/03/2009ChorleyLabourProposed
David Crausby02/03/2009Bolton North EastLabourSeconded
Bob Spink02/03/2009Castle PointIndependentSeconded
Jim Dobbin02/03/2009Heywood and MiddletonLabourSeconded
Graham Stringer03/03/2009Manchester, BlackleyLabourSeconded
Jeremy Corbyn03/03/2009Islington NorthLabourSeconded
Lynne Jones03/03/2009Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Edward O'Hara03/03/2009Knowsley SouthLabourSigned
David Drew03/03/2009StroudLabourSigned
Mark Durkan03/03/2009FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
David Taylor03/03/2009North West LeicestershireLabourSigned
Desmond Turner03/03/2009Brighton, KemptownLabourSigned
Rudi Vis03/03/2009Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Joan Humble04/03/2009Blackpool North and FleetwoodLabourSigned
Angus MacNeil04/03/2009Na h-Eileanan an IarScottish National PartySigned
Ann Cryer04/03/2009KeighleyLabourSigned
Martin Caton04/03/2009GowerLabourSigned
Ronnie Campbell04/03/2009Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
William McCrea04/03/2009South AntrimDUPSigned
Chris McCafferty04/03/2009Calder ValleyLabourSigned
Alan Simpson04/03/2009Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
David Chaytor05/03/2009Bury NorthLabourSigned
Dai Davies05/03/2009Blaenau GwentIndependentSigned
John Mason09/03/2009Glasgow EastScottish National PartySigned
John Hemming09/03/2009Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
David Borrow09/03/2009South RibbleLabourSigned
Mike Hancock09/03/2009Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Neil Gerrard09/03/2009WalthamstowLabourSigned
Betty Williams09/03/2009ConwyLabourSigned
Eric Illsley10/03/2009Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins10/03/2009TamworthLabourSigned
Janet Dean10/03/2009BurtonLabourSigned
Roger Godsiff10/03/2009Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small HeathLabourSigned
Katy Clark10/03/2009North Ayrshire and ArranLabourSigned
John Leech10/03/2009Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Clapham11/03/2009Barnsley West and PenistoneLabourSigned
Si11/03/2009Swansea EastLabourSigned
Alasdair McDonnell11/03/2009Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Dennis Skinner11/03/2009BolsoverLabourSigned
Marsha Singh11/03/2009Bradford WestLabourSigned
Colin Burgon12/03/2009ElmetLabourSigned
Adam Price13/03/2009Carmarthen East and DinefwrPlaid CymruSigned
Tom Clarke13/03/2009Coatbridge, Chryston and BellshillLabourSigned
Iris Robinson16/03/2009StrangfordDUPSigned
Hywel Williams18/03/2009CaernarfonPlaid CymruSigned
Mike Wood24/03/2009Batley and SpenLabourSigned
Mark Fisher20/04/2009Stoke-on-Trent CentralLabourSigned
Nigel Griffiths21/04/2009Edinburgh SouthLabourSigned
Bill Etherington23/04/2009Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Mohammad Sarwar08/06/2009Glasgow CentralLabourSigned
Stephen WilliamsUnknownWithdrawn

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