Accuracy Of The Unemployment Figures

EDM number 525 in 1996-97, proposed by Greville Janner on 12/02/1997.

That this House draws attention to the Government's fraudulent unemployment figures which ignore the latest Labourforce Survey which shows unemployment about 302,000 higher than the Government's claimant count and further ignores the findings of the Employment Policy Institute that the number of jobless people who say that they want a job is well over four million, and not the 1.8 million registered by the Government's deliberately flawed claimant count; and calls on the Government to come clean on the true level of unemployment and the job insecurity and human sufdfering that unemployment causes in pre-election Britain.

This motion has been signed by a total of 95 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Greville Janner	12/02/1997	Leicester West		Proposed
Win Griffiths	12/02/1997	Bridgend		Seconded
Kevin McNamara	12/02/1997	Kingston upon Hull North		Seconded
Ernie Ross	12/02/1997	Dundee West		Seconded
Peter Shore	12/02/1997	Bethnal Green and Stepney		Seconded
Angela Eagle	12/02/1997	Wallasey		Seconded
Paul Flynn	12/02/1997	Newport West		Signed
Andrew Faulds	12/02/1997	Warley East		Signed
Jeff Ennis	12/02/1997	Barnsley East		Signed
Kenneth Eastham	12/02/1997	Manchester, Blackley		Signed
Gwyneth Dunwoody	12/02/1997	Crewe & Nantwich		Signed
Brian H Donohoe	12/02/1997	Cunninghame South		Signed
Jean Corston	12/02/1997	Bristol East		Signed
Robin Corbett	12/02/1997	Birmingham, Erdington		Signed
Michael Clapham	12/02/1997	Barnsley West & Penistone		Signed
Dale Campbell-Savours	12/02/1997	Workington		Signed
Don Foster	12/02/1997	Bath		Signed
Maria Fyfe	12/02/1997	Glasgow, Maryhill		Signed
Tony Wright	12/02/1997	Cannock and Burntwood		Signed
David Winnick	12/02/1997	Walsall North		Signed
Alan Wynne Williams	12/02/1997	Carmarthen		Signed
Alan Williams	12/02/1997	Swansea West		Signed
Dennis Turner	12/02/1997	Wolverhampton South East		Signed
Tony Benn	12/02/1997	Chesterfield		Signed
Harry Barnes	12/02/1997	North East Derbyshire		Signed
Tony Banks	12/02/1997	Newham North West		Signed
John Garrett	12/02/1997	Norwich South		Signed
Mike Gapes	12/02/1997	Ilford South		Signed
Ronnie Campbell	12/02/1997	Blyth Valley		Signed
Anne Campbell	12/02/1997	Cambridge		Signed
Peter Hardy	12/02/1997	Wentworth		Signed
Dennis Skinner	12/02/1997	Bolsover		Signed
Barry Sheerman	12/02/1997	Huddersfield		Signed
David Rendel	12/02/1997	Newbury		Signed
Gordon Prentice	12/02/1997	Pendle		Signed
Greg Pope	12/02/1997	Hyndburn		Signed
Ian Pearson	12/02/1997	Dudley West		Signed
Peter Pike	12/02/1997	Burnley		Signed
Colin Pickthall	12/02/1997	West Lancashire		Signed
Nigel Griffiths	12/02/1997	Edinburgh South		Signed
Margaret Hodge	12/02/1997	Barking		Signed
Kate Hoey	12/02/1997	Vauxhall		Signed
Paul Murphy	12/02/1997	Torfaen		Signed
Andrew Miller	12/02/1997	Ellesmere Port & Neston		Signed
William McKelvey	12/02/1997	Kilmarnock & Loudoun		Signed
Robert McCartney	12/02/1997	North Down		Signed
John McAllion	12/02/1997	Dundee East		Signed
Alice Mahon	12/02/1997	Halifax		Signed
Terry Lewis	12/02/1997	Worsley		Signed
Barry Jones	12/02/1997	Alyn & Deeside		Signed
David Jamieson	12/02/1997	Plymouth, Devonport		Signed
John Home Robertson	12/02/1997	East Lothian		Signed
John Evans	13/02/1997	St Helens North		Signed
John Battle	13/02/1997	Leeds West		Signed
Gerry Sutcliffe	13/02/1997	Bradford South		Signed
Paddy Tipping	13/02/1997	Sherwood		Signed
Bill Michie	13/02/1997	Sheffield, Heeley		Signed
John McWilliam	13/02/1997	Blaydon		Signed
Eric Martlew	13/02/1997	Carlisle		Signed
Ken Livingstone	13/02/1997	Brent East		Signed
Lynne Jones	13/02/1997	Birmingham, Selly Oak		Signed
Bridget Prentice	13/02/1997	Lewisham East		Signed
Hugh Bayley	14/02/1997	York, City of		Signed
Bruce Grocott	14/02/1997	Wrekin, The		Signed
Tom Cox	14/02/1997	Tooting		Signed
Joan Lestor	17/02/1997	Eccles		Signed
Lawrence Cunliffe	17/02/1997	Leigh		Signed
Jim Cunningham	17/02/1997	Coventry South East		Signed
Dafydd Wigley	18/02/1997	Caernarfon		Signed
Gerry Steinberg	18/02/1997	Durham, City of		Signed
Norman Godman	18/02/1997	Greenock and Port Glasgow		Signed
Michael Connarty	18/02/1997	Falkirk East		Signed
Keith Bradley	18/02/1997	Manchester, Withington		Signed
David Marshall	18/02/1997	Glasgow, Shettleston		Signed
Eric Illsley	18/02/1997	Barnsley Central		Signed
Roy Hughes	18/02/1997	Newport East		Signed
Nick Harvey	19/02/1997	North Devon		Signed
Audrey Wise	20/02/1997	Preston		Signed
Neil Gerrard	20/02/1997	Walthamstow		Signed
Ian Davidson	20/02/1997	Glasgow, Govan		Signed
Eric Clarke	20/02/1997	Midlothian		Signed
Alan Meale	20/02/1997	Mansfield		Signed
Rachel Squire	20/02/1997	Dunfermline West		Signed
Elfyn Llwyd	24/02/1997	Meirionnydd Nant Conwy		Signed
Mike Hall	24/02/1997	Warrington South		Signed
Donald Dixon	25/02/1997	Jarrow		Signed
David Chidgey	26/02/1997	Eastleigh		Signed
Jack Thompson	27/02/1997	Wansbeck		Signed
Bill Etherington	27/02/1997	Sunderland North		Signed
Eddie Loyden	27/02/1997	Liverpool, Garston		Signed
Terry Davis	05/03/1997	Birmingham, Hodge Hill		Signed
John Gunnell	05/03/1997	Leeds South and Morley		Signed
Roseanna Cunningham	10/03/1997	Perth and Kinross		Signed
Martyn Jones	18/03/1997	Clwyd South West		Signed
James Callaghan	20/03/1997	Heywood & Middleton		Signed

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