Redundant Trawlermen

EDM number 217 in 1995-96, proposed by Austin Mitchell on 18/12/1995.

That this House condemns the abrupt and ill considered decision by the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Competition and Consumer Affairs at the Department of Trade and Industry to wind up the special unit set up by the Department of Employment to process redundancy claims by former fishermen and to refuse all applications for such payments after the end of this year; considers that this decision displays a lack of concern for fishermen who have been fighting for 20 years to get the Government to recognise their rights to redundancy; believes that, since the Government has been forced to accept the decision of the courts, it is adding insult to injury to allow only three years for claims; suggests that now that the principle of a right to redundancy payments has been established it would be wrong to refuse to entertain them after a set date; points out that this directly contradicts the assurance given in November 1992 to honourable Members and the British Fishermen's Association that there would be no time limit on applications; and asks the Government to reconsider a decision which is unfair and unreasonable.

This motion has been signed by a total of 65 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Austin Mitchell	18/12/1995	Great Grimsby		Proposed
David Winnick	18/12/1995	Walsall North		Signed
Tony Banks	18/12/1995	Newham North West		Signed
Peter Hain	18/12/1995	Neath		Signed
John Gunnell	18/12/1995	Leeds South and Morley		Signed
Nick Ainger	18/12/1995	Pembroke		Signed
Gwyneth Dunwoody	18/12/1995	Crewe & Nantwich		Signed
Jeremy Corbyn	18/12/1995	Islington North		Signed
Bill O'Brien	18/12/1995	Normanton		Signed
Elliot Morley	18/12/1995	Glanford and Scunthorpe		Signed
Jane Kennedy	18/12/1995	Liverpool Broadgreen		Signed
Norman Hogg	18/12/1995	Cumbernauld & Kilsyth		Signed
Michael Connarty	19/12/1995	Falkirk East		Signed
Eric Clarke	19/12/1995	Midlothian		Signed
Keith Bradley	19/12/1995	Manchester, Withington		Signed
Chris Mullin	19/12/1995	Sunderland South		Signed
Andrew Miller	19/12/1995	Ellesmere Port & Neston		Signed
Bill Michie	19/12/1995	Sheffield, Heeley		Signed
Alan Meale	19/12/1995	Mansfield		Signed
Henry McLeish	19/12/1995	Central Fife		Signed
Tom Cox	19/12/1995	Tooting		Signed
Lawrence Cunliffe	19/12/1995	Leigh		Signed
Denzil Davies	19/12/1995	Llanelli		Signed
Paddy Tipping	19/12/1995	Sherwood		Signed
Stephen Timms	19/12/1995	Newham North East		Signed
George Stevenson	19/12/1995	Stoke-on-Trent South		Signed
Gerry Steinberg	19/12/1995	Durham, City of		Signed
Harry Barnes	19/12/1995	North East Derbyshire		Signed
Norman Godman	19/12/1995	Greenock and Port Glasgow		Signed
John Evans	19/12/1995	St Helens North		Signed
Terry Davis	19/12/1995	Birmingham, Hodge Hill		Signed
William McKelvey	19/12/1995	Kilmarnock & Loudoun		Signed
Robert McCartney	19/12/1995	North Down		Signed
Peter Hardy	19/12/1995	Wentworth		Signed
Nigel Spearing	19/12/1995	Newham South		Signed
Peter Shore	19/12/1995	Bethnal Green and Stepney		Signed
Ernie Ross	19/12/1995	Dundee West		Signed
Stuart Randall	19/12/1995	Kingston upon Hull West		Signed
Gordon Prentice	19/12/1995	Pendle		Signed
Peter Pike	19/12/1995	Burnley		Signed
David Hanson	19/12/1995	Delyn		Signed
David Hinchliffe	19/12/1995	Wakefield		Signed
John Home Robertson	19/12/1995	East Lothian		Signed
Robert Hughes	19/12/1995	Aberdeen North		Signed
John McAllion	19/12/1995	Dundee East		Signed
Calum MacDonald	19/12/1995	Na h-Eileanan an Iar		Signed
Eddie Loyden	19/12/1995	Liverpool, Garston		Signed
Ken Livingstone	19/12/1995	Brent East		Signed
Jon Owen Jones	19/12/1995	Cardiff Central		Signed
Glenda Jackson	19/12/1995	Hampstead & Highgate		Signed
Eric Illsley	19/12/1995	Barnsley Central		Signed
Roy Hughes	19/12/1995	Newport East		Signed
Helen Jackson	20/12/1995	Sheffield, Hillsborough		Signed
Martin Smyth	20/12/1995	Belfast South		Signed
Dennis Skinner	20/12/1995	Bolsover		Signed
Giles Radice	20/12/1995	North Durham		Signed
John Heppell	09/01/1996	Nottingham East		Signed
Dennis Turner	10/01/1996	Wolverhampton South East		Signed
Mike Hall	10/01/1996	Warrington South		Signed
Jean Corston	10/01/1996	Bristol East		Signed
Edward O'Hara	10/01/1996	Knowsley South		Signed
Alice Mahon	10/01/1996	Halifax		Signed
Terry Rooney	10/01/1996	Bradford North		Signed
Llin Golding	11/01/1996	Newcastle-under-Lyme		Signed
Martyn Jones	18/01/1996	Clwyd South West		Signed

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