<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><edm>
<id>2669</id>
<session>1990-91</session>
<number>795</number>
<title>British Rail Beards</title>
<proposer id="22610">Alex Carlile</proposer>
<date>1991-05-02</date>
<text>That this House believes that the proposed new rules preventing British Rail employees from wearing facial hair are silly and unnecessary, that they are likely to create tension between management and staff, that they infringe individual liberty, that they discriminate against men and that facial hair does not offend the customer; and further believes that the British Railways Board would be better occupied in providing a reasonable rail service than in dreaming up pettifogging rules which even Mr Pooter would have considered absurd.</text>
<topics>
</topics>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="22610">Alex Carlile</mp>
		<date>1991-05-02</date>
		<type>Proposed</type>
		<constituency>Montgomery</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="22067">Peter Hardy</mp>
		<date>1991-05-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wentworth</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10026">Harry Barnes</mp>
		<date>1991-05-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North East Derbyshire</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="21738">Russell Johnston</mp>
		<date>1991-05-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10059">Keith Bradley</mp>
		<date>1991-05-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Manchester, Withington</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10607">Dennis Turner</mp>
		<date>1991-05-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wolverhampton South East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10428">Alan Meale</mp>
		<date>1991-05-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Mansfield</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="18146">Geoffrey Lofthouse</mp>
		<date>1991-05-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Pontefract &amp; Castleford</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10618">Jim Wallace</mp>
		<date>1991-05-13</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Orkney &amp; Shetland</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10639">Alan Williams</mp>
		<date>1991-05-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Swansea West</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="17270">Alexander Eadie</mp>
		<date>1991-05-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Midlothian</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10138">Tom Cox</mp>
		<date>1991-05-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Tooting</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10238">Tommy Graham</mp>
		<date>1991-05-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Renfrew West and Inverclyde</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10510">Allan Rogers</mp>
		<date>1991-06-19</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Rhondda</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10027">Kevin Barron</mp>
		<date>1991-06-19</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Rother Valley</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10037">Tony Benn</mp>
		<date>1991-06-24</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Chesterfield</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10129">Frank Cook</mp>
		<date>1991-06-25</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Stockton North</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="21776">Doug Hoyle</mp>
		<date>1991-06-27</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Warrington North</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="16751">Roland Boyes</mp>
		<date>1991-07-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Houghton and Washington</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10364">Ken Livingstone</mp>
		<date>1991-10-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Brent East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
</signatures>
</edm>