3441
1990-91
514
Homeless Emergency London People
DN Campbell-Savours
1991-02-21
That this House notes that on Friday morning 15th February 1991 Homeless Emergency London People (HELP), having fruitlessly sought assistance from the Department of the Environment, and having exhausted all other avenues, contacted the honourable Member for Workington, seeking urgent assistance to obtain 200 blankets to distribute that night, and throughout the weekend, to people sleeping rough on London's streets; notes that HELP had run out of blankets and had to turn away people, many of them dangerously ill as a result of sleeping out in sub-zero temperatures night and night; notes that the private office of the Secretary of State for the Environment was immediately contacted from which an official contacted HELP regretting that the Department could do no more than provide two telephone numbers for the Salvation Army, an organisation whom HELP had already contacted to find that their own and other hostels were themselves short of blankets; notes that after many hours of telephone calls by the honourable Member's staff to a range of organisations, blankets were, through good fortune, obtained from Westminster Hospital; notes that at 5.47 p.m. a departmental official telephoned the honourable Member's office to claim that the Department had been doing all they could to help; understands that HELP are short of 300 to 500 blankets for this weekend and the Department of the Environment have not even returned their telephone calls seeking assistance; and condemns the Government's demonstrated lack of concern and co-ordinated assistance in meeting this continuing emergency.
Dale Campbell-Savours
1991-02-21
Proposed
Workington
Harry Barnes
1991-02-22
Signed
North East Derbyshire
Dennis Skinner
1991-02-25
Signed
Bolsover
John Battle
1991-02-25
Signed
Leeds West
John Cummings
1991-02-25
Signed
Easington
Ronnie Campbell
1991-02-25
Signed
Blyth Valley
Keith Bradley
1991-02-25
Signed
Manchester, Withington
Bill Michie
1991-02-25
Signed
Sheffield, Heeley
Ian McCartney
1991-02-25
Signed
Makerfield
Alice Mahon
1991-02-25
Signed
Halifax
Eddie Loyden
1991-02-25
Signed
Liverpool, Garston
Peter Hardy
1991-02-25
Signed
Wentworth
Robert Parry
1991-02-25
Signed
Liverpool, Riverside
Mike Watson
1991-02-26
Signed
Glasgow Central
Dennis Turner
1991-02-26
Signed
Wolverhampton South East
Norman Godman
1991-02-26
Signed
Greenock and Port Glasgow
Maria Fyfe
1991-02-26
Signed
Glasgow, Maryhill
Alexander Eadie
1991-02-26
Signed
Midlothian
Jimmy Dunnachie
1991-02-26
Signed
Glasgow, Pollok
Roland Boyes
1991-02-26
Signed
Houghton and Washington
Alan Meale
1991-02-26
Signed
Mansfield
Martin Redmond
1991-02-26
Signed
Don Valley
Terry Patchett
1991-02-26
Signed
Barnsley East
Harry Cohen
1991-02-26
Signed
Leyton
John Garrett
1991-02-27
Signed
Norwich South
John Evans
1991-02-27
Signed
St Helens North
Ron Davies
1991-02-27
Signed
Caerphilly
Chris Smith
1991-02-27
Signed
Islington South & Finsbury
Bob Cryer
1991-02-28
Signed
Bradford South
Alistair Darling
1991-02-28
Signed
Edinburgh Central
Tom Cox
1991-03-01
Signed
Tooting
Jack Thompson
1991-03-05
Signed
Wansbeck
Max Madden
1991-03-06
Signed
Bradford West
Joyce Quin
1991-03-07
Signed
Gateshead East
George Howarth
1991-03-07
Signed
Knowsley North
Tommy Graham
1991-03-14
Signed
Renfrew West and Inverclyde