Labour Plans For A National Minimum Wage;amdt. Line 1:
EDM number 1111A1 in 1994-95, proposed by Denis MacShane on 11/05/1995.
leave out from `deplores' to end and add `the drive by Ministers to create poverty in work based on hourly pay rates of under ú2 or ú3 an hour which shame a civilised society and which require subsidies by the tax-payer to low-wage firms via family and housing benefits to wage-earners earning so little they cannot sustain a decent family life; notes that the majority of OECD countries with minimum wage systems have a better record of both job creation and economic growth since 1980 than the United Kingdom; reaffirms the statement of Sir Winston Churchill made in this House that `It is a serious national evil that any class of His Majesty's subjects should recieve less than a living wage in return for their utmost exertions', and agrees with the statement of Lord Gilmour in the New Statesman that if the Prime Minister wishes to `create a classless society, it's not at all obvious that the best way of doing so is to make the poorest people even poorer'; notes that in the United States, Mr Newt Gingrich recently voted to increase the US minimum wage and that, in France, President Jacques Chirac, supports the French national monthly minimum salary, SMIC; welcomes the increasing international research showing that a minimum wage increases job stability and employment; and therefore expresses support for the minimum wage campaign launched by the honourable Member for Peckham and the TUC based on the fullest debate and partnership dialogue following a change of Government between employers and unions about the level at which the minimum wage should be set in the light of economic circumstances prevailing at the time and the best practicable manner in administering a minimum wage so that it place a floor under poverty pay exploitation, and sends a message to all citizens that they again live in one nation under an administration that accepts its responsibilities to eradicate poverty and heal social division instead of the present Government's policy of exacerbating both'.
This is a ammendment to 1111.
This motion has been signed by a total of 122 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.
| MP | Date | Constituency | Party | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Denis MacShane | 11/05/1995 | Rotherham | Proposed | |
| James Callaghan | 11/05/1995 | Heywood & Middleton | Signed | |
| Anne Campbell | 11/05/1995 | Cambridge | Signed | |
| Malcolm Chisholm | 11/05/1995 | Edinburgh Leith | Signed | |
| Ann Clwyd | 11/05/1995 | Cynon Valley | Signed | |
| Ann Coffey | 11/05/1995 | Stockport | Signed | |
| Harry Cohen | 11/05/1995 | Leyton | Signed | |
| Bryan Davies | 11/05/1995 | Oldham Central and Royton | Signed | |
| John Denham | 11/05/1995 | Southampton, Itchen | Signed | |
| Neil Gerrard | 11/05/1995 | Walthamstow | Signed | |
| John Gunnell | 11/05/1995 | Leeds South and Morley | Signed | |
| John Battle | 11/05/1995 | Leeds West | Signed | |
| Hugh Bayley | 11/05/1995 | York, City of | Signed | |
| Gerry Bermingham | 11/05/1995 | St Helens South | Signed | |
| Clive Betts | 11/05/1995 | Sheffield, Attercliffe | Signed | |
| George Stevenson | 11/05/1995 | Stoke-on-Trent South | Signed | |
| Alan Wynne Williams | 11/05/1995 | Carmarthen | Signed | |
| Jeremy Bray | 11/05/1995 | Motherwell South | Signed | |
| Bill Olner | 11/05/1995 | Nuneaton | Signed | |
| Estelle Morris | 11/05/1995 | Birmingham, Yardley | Signed | |
| Mike O'Brien | 11/05/1995 | North Warwickshire | Signed | |
| Peter Pike | 11/05/1995 | Burnley | Signed | |
| Terry Patchett | 11/05/1995 | Barnsley East | Signed | |
| Bridget Prentice | 11/05/1995 | Lewisham East | Signed | |
| Gordon Prentice | 11/05/1995 | Pendle | Signed | |
| Barbara Roche | 11/05/1995 | Hornsey & Wood Green | Signed | |
| Brian Sedgemore | 11/05/1995 | Hackney South & Shoreditch | Signed | |
| Clare Short | 11/05/1995 | Birmingham, Ladywood | Signed | |
| Peter Snape | 11/05/1995 | West Bromwich East | Signed | |
| Rhodri Morgan | 11/05/1995 | Cardiff West | Signed | |
| Andrew Miller | 11/05/1995 | Ellesmere Port & Neston | Signed | |
| Alice Mahon | 11/05/1995 | Halifax | Signed | |
| Lynne Jones | 11/05/1995 | Birmingham, Selly Oak | Signed | |
| John Hutton | 11/05/1995 | Barrow & Furness | Signed | |
| Doug Hoyle | 11/05/1995 | Warrington North | Signed | |
| Peter Hardy | 11/05/1995 | Wentworth | Signed | |
| Keith Vaz | 15/05/1995 | Leicester East | Signed | |
| Hilary Armstrong | 15/05/1995 | North West Durham | Signed | |
| Paul Flynn | 15/05/1995 | Newport West | Signed | |
| Frank Cook | 15/05/1995 | Stockton North | Signed | |
| Edward O'Hara | 15/05/1995 | Knowsley South | Signed | |
| Alun Michael | 15/05/1995 | Cardiff South & Penarth | Signed | |
| Thomas McAvoy | 15/05/1995 | Glasgow, Rutherglen | Signed | |
| Terry Rooney | 15/05/1995 | Bradford North | Signed | |
| Jimmy Dunnachie | 16/05/1995 | Glasgow, Pollok | Signed | |
| John Evans | 16/05/1995 | St Helens North | Signed | |
| Andrew Faulds | 16/05/1995 | Warley East | Signed | |
| Norman Godman | 16/05/1995 | Greenock and Port Glasgow | Signed | |
| Gerry Steinberg | 16/05/1995 | Durham, City of | Signed | |
| Paddy Tipping | 16/05/1995 | Sherwood | Signed | |
| David Young | 16/05/1995 | Bolton South East | Signed | |
| Jim Dowd | 16/05/1995 | Lewisham West | Signed | |
| Michael Connarty | 16/05/1995 | Falkirk East | Signed | |
| Keith Bradley | 16/05/1995 | Manchester, Withington | Signed | |
| Robert Parry | 16/05/1995 | Liverpool, Riverside | Signed | |
| Ernie Ross | 16/05/1995 | Dundee West | Signed | |
| Robert Hughes | 16/05/1995 | Aberdeen North | Signed | |
| Barry Jones | 16/05/1995 | Alyn & Deeside | Signed | |
| John McAllion | 16/05/1995 | Dundee East | Signed | |
| William McKelvey | 16/05/1995 | Kilmarnock & Loudoun | Signed | |
| Bill Michie | 16/05/1995 | Sheffield, Heeley | Signed | |
| Mike Watson | 17/05/1995 | Glasgow Central | Signed | |
| Don Touhig | 17/05/1995 | Islwyn | Signed | |
| Joe Benton | 17/05/1995 | Bootle | Signed | |
| Tony Banks | 17/05/1995 | Newham North West | Signed | |
| Mike Hall | 17/05/1995 | Warrington South | Signed | |
| Win Griffiths | 17/05/1995 | Bridgend | Signed | |
| Richard Burden | 17/05/1995 | Birmingham, Northfield | Signed | |
| Calum MacDonald | 17/05/1995 | Na h-Eileanan an Iar | Signed | |
| Eddie Loyden | 17/05/1995 | Liverpool, Garston | Signed | |
| Ken Livingstone | 17/05/1995 | Brent East | Signed | |
| Eric Illsley | 17/05/1995 | Barnsley Central | Signed | |
| Joan Ruddock | 17/05/1995 | Lewisham, Deptford | Signed | |
| Tom Cox | 22/05/1995 | Tooting | Signed | |
| George Foulkes | 22/05/1995 | Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley | Signed | |
| Bruce Grocott | 22/05/1995 | Wrekin, The | Signed | |
| Janet Anderson | 22/05/1995 | Rossendale & Darwen | Signed | |
| Dennis Turner | 22/05/1995 | Wolverhampton South East | Signed | |
| Chris Mullin | 22/05/1995 | Sunderland South | Signed | |
| Alf Morris | 22/05/1995 | Manchester Wythenshawe | Signed | |
| Piara S Khabra | 22/05/1995 | Ealing, Southall | Signed | |
| Glenda Jackson | 22/05/1995 | Hampstead & Highgate | Signed | |
| Norman Hogg | 22/05/1995 | Cumbernauld & Kilsyth | Signed | |
| Nigel Spearing | 22/05/1995 | Newham South | Signed | |
| Clive Soley | 22/05/1995 | Hammersmith | Signed | |
| Dennis Skinner | 22/05/1995 | Bolsover | Signed | |
| Roland Boyes | 23/05/1995 | Houghton and Washington | Signed | |
| Robin Corbett | 23/05/1995 | Birmingham, Erdington | Signed | |
| Terry Davis | 23/05/1995 | Birmingham, Hodge Hill | Signed | |
| Mike Gapes | 23/05/1995 | Ilford South | Signed | |
| Tony Wright | 23/05/1995 | Cannock and Burntwood | Signed | |
| Gordon Oakes | 23/05/1995 | Halton | Signed | |
| David Marshall | 23/05/1995 | Glasgow, Shettleston | Signed | |
| Martyn Jones | 23/05/1995 | Clwyd South West | Signed | |
| Helen Jackson | 23/05/1995 | Sheffield, Hillsborough | Signed | |
| Doug Henderson | 23/05/1995 | Newcastle upon Tyne North | Signed | |
| Martin Redmond | 23/05/1995 | Don Valley | Signed | |
| Joyce Quin | 23/05/1995 | Gateshead East | Signed | |
| Gerry Sutcliffe | 24/05/1995 | Bradford South | Signed | |
| Llin Golding | 24/05/1995 | Newcastle-under-Lyme | Signed | |
| John Fraser | 24/05/1995 | Norwood | Signed | |
| Tony Worthington | 25/05/1995 | Clydebank & Milngavie | Signed | |
| Jack Thompson | 25/05/1995 | Wansbeck | Signed | |
| Mildred Gordon | 25/05/1995 | Bow and Poplar | Signed | |
| Gwyneth Dunwoody | 25/05/1995 | Crewe & Nantwich | Signed | |
| David Clelland | 25/05/1995 | Tyne Bridge | Signed | |
| Rachel Squire | 25/05/1995 | Dunfermline West | Signed | |
| Geoffrey Robinson | 25/05/1995 | Coventry North West | Signed | |
| John Home Robertson | 31/05/1995 | East Lothian | Signed | |
| Helen Liddell | 31/05/1995 | Monklands East | Signed | |
| Jamie Cann | 31/05/1995 | Ipswich | Signed | |
| Judith Church | 31/05/1995 | Dagenham | Signed | |
| Joe Ashton | 31/05/1995 | Bassetlaw | Signed | |
| Jim Cunningham | 06/06/1995 | Coventry South East | Signed | |
| Richard Caborn | 06/06/1995 | Sheffield Central | Signed | |
| Austin Mitchell | 13/06/1995 | Great Grimsby | Signed | |
| Maria Fyfe | 14/06/1995 | Glasgow, Maryhill | Signed | |
| David Winnick | 15/06/1995 | Walsall North | Signed | |
| Nick Ainger | 26/06/1995 | Pembroke | Signed | |
| Peter Kilfoyle | 29/06/1995 | Liverpool, Walton | Signed | |
| Tommy Graham | 29/06/1995 | Renfrew West and Inverclyde | Signed | |
| Derek Enright | Unknown | Withdrawn |
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