London Weekend Television

EDM number 1975 in 1992-93, proposed by Austin Mitchell on 10/05/1993.

That this House views the television franchise as a precious opportunity to serve and considers that a television company is a corporate endeavour to produce quality television, to serve the region, upgrade television skills and train, stimulate and sustain televisual excellence, not a machinery for gratifying corporate greed; deplores the crass personal lust for money demonstrated by senior executives at London Weekend Television who, at a time when television companies have been shedding staff, freezing programme and production budgets and resorting to lowest common denominator programming, have covertly shared between themselves the ú55 million jackpot exposed in The Independent on Saturday 8th May, so that Christopher Bland gets ú7 million, Greg Dyke ú5.3 million, Ron Miller ú5.3 million, Brian Tesler ú5.3 million, Melvyn Bragg ú2.2 million, Nick Elliott ú2.2 million, Robin Paxton ú1.6 million, John Kay Cooper ú1.3 million, Barry Cox ú1.2 million and Mike Southgate ú1.2 million; urges all the above to reconsider the sordid example this sets and devote the money to the furtherance of excellence in television rather than their own gratification and considers that they should remember that if television has a mission to explain so do they; and urges the Independent Television Commission, at a time when some companies are struggling financially, to act to stop commercial television becoming a split-level system of self-enrichment for some and bankrupcy for others all with no regard to the interests of the viewer.

This motion has been signed by a total of 62 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Austin Mitchell	10/05/1993	Great Grimsby		Proposed
Roger Berry	11/05/1993	Kingswood		Signed
John Evans	11/05/1993	St Helens North		Signed
Bryan Davies	11/05/1993	Oldham Central and Royton		Signed
Michael Connarty	11/05/1993	Falkirk East		Signed
Eric Clarke	11/05/1993	Midlothian		Signed
Keith Bradley	11/05/1993	Manchester, Withington		Signed
Bill Michie	11/05/1993	Sheffield, Heeley		Signed
Alan Meale	11/05/1993	Mansfield		Signed
Eddie Loyden	11/05/1993	Liverpool, Garston		Signed
Ken Livingstone	11/05/1993	Brent East		Signed
Terry Lewis	11/05/1993	Worsley		Signed
Clare Short	11/05/1993	Birmingham, Ladywood		Signed
Mike Hall	12/05/1993	Warrington South		Signed
Tommy Graham	12/05/1993	Renfrew West and Inverclyde		Signed
Ian Davidson	12/05/1993	Glasgow, Govan		Signed
Alice Mahon	12/05/1993	Halifax		Signed
Lynne Jones	12/05/1993	Birmingham, Selly Oak		Signed
Eric Illsley	13/05/1993	Barnsley Central		Signed
Jeremy Corbyn	14/05/1993	Islington North		Signed
John Cummings	14/05/1993	Easington		Signed
Gwyneth Dunwoody	17/05/1993	Crewe & Nantwich		Signed
Terry Davis	17/05/1993	Birmingham, Hodge Hill		Signed
Frank Cook	17/05/1993	Stockton North		Signed
Harry Cohen	17/05/1993	Leyton		Signed
Alex Carlile	17/05/1993	Montgomery		Signed
Roland Boyes	17/05/1993	Houghton and Washington		Signed
Jack Thompson	18/05/1993	Wansbeck		Signed
John Denham	18/05/1993	Southampton, Itchen		Signed
David Clelland	18/05/1993	Tyne Bridge		Signed
Michael Clapham	18/05/1993	Barnsley West & Penistone		Signed
Jamie Cann	18/05/1993	Ipswich		Signed
Ann Coffey	19/05/1993	Stockport		Signed
Denzil Davies	19/05/1993	Llanelli		Signed
Elliot Morley	20/05/1993	Glanford and Scunthorpe		Signed
Jim Cunningham	20/05/1993	Coventry South East		Signed
Jimmy Dunnachie	24/05/1993	Glasgow, Pollok		Signed
Tam Dalyell	24/05/1993	Linlithgow		Signed
Richard Caborn	24/05/1993	Sheffield Central		Signed
Allan Rogers	25/05/1993	Rhondda		Signed
Derek Enright	07/06/1993	Hemsworth		Signed
Bruce Grocott	07/06/1993	Wrekin, The		Signed
Jean Corston	09/06/1993	Bristol East		Signed
Tom Cox	09/06/1993	Tooting		Signed
Brian H Donohoe	09/06/1993	Cunninghame South		Signed
Derek Fatchett	09/06/1993	Leeds Central		Signed
Jimmy Boyce	10/06/1993	Rotherham		Signed
Martyn Jones	10/06/1993	Clwyd South West		Signed
Ron Leighton	14/06/1993	Newham North East		Signed
Jane Kennedy	15/06/1993	Liverpool Broadgreen		Signed
Mike Gapes	15/06/1993	Ilford South		Signed
Mildred Gordon	16/06/1993	Bow and Poplar		Signed
Maria Fyfe	16/06/1993	Glasgow, Maryhill		Signed
William McKelvey	16/06/1993	Kilmarnock & Loudoun		Signed
Piara S Khabra	16/06/1993	Ealing, Southall		Signed
Roy Hughes	16/06/1993	Newport East		Signed
Doug Hoyle	16/06/1993	Warrington North		Signed
Peter Hardy	16/06/1993	Wentworth		Signed
John McWilliam	21/06/1993	Blaydon		Signed
Estelle Morris	23/06/1993	Birmingham, Yardley		Signed
Andrew MacKinlay	23/07/1993	Thurrock		Signed
Bill Etherington	23/07/1993	Sunderland North		Signed

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