<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><edm>
<id>14275</id>
<session>1996-97</session>
<number>25</number>
<title>Design In Business Week</title>
<proposer id="22557">Michael Marshall</proposer>
<date>1996-10-23</date>
<text>That this House congratulates the Design Council on organising the first Design in Business Week for 24th October to 1st November 1996; believes that the effective use of design by business is crucial to improving the competitiveness of the United Kingdom; wishes the organisers and the supporters of the 30 different events taking place in this particular week every sucess; and hopes that this event may grow into a major national annual opportunity of highlighting the importance of design to commercial success.</text>
<topics>
</topics>
<signatures>
	<signature>
		<mp id="22557">Michael Marshall</mp>
		<date>1996-10-23</date>
		<type>Proposed</type>
		<constituency>Arundel</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="22343">Robert Banks</mp>
		<date>1996-10-23</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Harrogate</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10198">Mark Fisher</mp>
		<date>1996-10-23</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Stoke-on-Trent Central</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="14987">Den Dover</mp>
		<date>1996-10-23</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Chorley</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10160">Quentin Davies</mp>
		<date>1996-10-23</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Stamford and Spalding</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10099">Sydney Chapman</mp>
		<date>1996-10-23</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Chipping Barnet</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="22580">John Butcher</mp>
		<date>1996-10-23</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Coventry South West</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="18578">Richard Needham</mp>
		<date>1996-10-23</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North Wiltshire</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10306">Adam Ingram</mp>
		<date>1996-10-23</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>East Kilbride</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10534">Barry Sheerman</mp>
		<date>1996-10-23</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Huddersfield</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10508">Barbara Roche</mp>
		<date>1996-10-23</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hornsey &amp; Wood Green</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10114">Eric Clarke</mp>
		<date>1996-10-24</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Midlothian</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="22645">David Nicholson</mp>
		<date>1996-10-24</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Taunton</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10428">Alan Meale</mp>
		<date>1996-10-24</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Mansfield</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10323">Lynne Jones</mp>
		<date>1996-10-24</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Birmingham, Selly Oak</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10275">John Heppell</mp>
		<date>1996-10-24</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Nottingham East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10138">Tom Cox</mp>
		<date>1996-10-25</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Tooting</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10636">John Wilkinson</mp>
		<date>1996-10-28</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ruislip - Northwood</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10597">Paddy Tipping</mp>
		<date>1996-10-28</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Sherwood</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="16616">Vivian Bendall</mp>
		<date>1996-10-28</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ilford North</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10025">Tony Banks</mp>
		<date>1996-10-28</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Newham North West</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10012">Janet Anderson</mp>
		<date>1996-10-28</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Rossendale &amp; Darwen</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10129">Frank Cook</mp>
		<date>1996-10-28</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Stockton North</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="21654">Alf Morris</mp>
		<date>1996-10-28</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Manchester Wythenshawe</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10485">Raymond Powell</mp>
		<date>1996-10-28</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ogmore</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="21726">David Howell</mp>
		<date>1996-10-28</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Guildford</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="21981">John Hunt</mp>
		<date>1996-10-28</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ravensbourne</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="21734">David Knox</mp>
		<date>1996-10-28</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Staffordshire Moorlands</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10435">Andrew Miller</mp>
		<date>1996-10-28</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ellesmere Port &amp; Neston</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="17477">Phil Gallie</mp>
		<date>1996-10-29</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ayr</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10230">Norman Godman</mp>
		<date>1996-10-29</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Greenock and Port Glasgow</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10233">Llin Golding</mp>
		<date>1996-10-29</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Newcastle-under-Lyme</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10242">John Greenway</mp>
		<date>1996-10-29</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ryedale</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="19735">Richard Alexander</mp>
		<date>1996-10-29</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Newark</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="22547">Peter Griffiths</mp>
		<date>1996-10-29</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Portsmouth North</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10028">John Battle</mp>
		<date>1996-10-29</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Leeds West</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="22633">Patrick Thompson</mp>
		<date>1996-10-29</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Norwich North</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10604">Jon Trickett</mp>
		<date>1996-10-29</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hemsworth</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10157">Ian Davidson</mp>
		<date>1996-10-29</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Glasgow, Govan</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10134">Patrick Cormack</mp>
		<date>1996-10-29</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>South Staffordshire</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10074">Malcolm Bruce</mp>
		<date>1996-10-29</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Gordon</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10479">Peter Pike</mp>
		<date>1996-10-29</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Burnley</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="22624">Elizabeth Peacock</mp>
		<date>1996-10-29</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Batley &amp; Spen</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="21990">Tim Rathbone</mp>
		<date>1996-10-29</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Lewes</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="21902">Wyn Roberts</mp>
		<date>1996-10-29</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Conwy</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="22067">Peter Hardy</mp>
		<date>1996-10-29</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wentworth</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="22158">Roy Hughes</mp>
		<date>1996-10-29</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Newport East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10316">Geoffrey Johnson Smith</mp>
		<date>1996-10-29</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wealden</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10360">Helen Liddell</mp>
		<date>1996-10-29</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Monklands East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10432">Bill Michie</mp>
		<date>1996-10-29</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Sheffield, Heeley</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10034">Alan Beith</mp>
		<date>1996-10-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Berwick-upon-Tweed</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10591">Teddy Taylor</mp>
		<date>1996-10-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Southend East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="22634">Jack Thompson</mp>
		<date>1996-10-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wansbeck</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="22049">Neville Trotter</mp>
		<date>1996-10-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Tynemouth</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10619">Joan Walley</mp>
		<date>1996-10-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Stoke-on-Trent North</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10646">Ann Winterton</mp>
		<date>1996-10-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Congleton</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10029">Hugh Bayley</mp>
		<date>1996-10-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>York, City of</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="17366">Andrew Faulds</mp>
		<date>1996-10-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Warley East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10562">Rachel Squire</mp>
		<date>1996-10-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Dunfermline West</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="21776">Doug Hoyle</mp>
		<date>1996-10-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Warrington North</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10399">Kevin McNamara</mp>
		<date>1996-10-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Kingston upon Hull North</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10462">Edward O'Hara</mp>
		<date>1996-10-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Knowsley South</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10463">Bill Olner</mp>
		<date>1996-10-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Nuneaton</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10135">Jean Corston</mp>
		<date>1996-10-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bristol East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10464">Martin O'Neill</mp>
		<date>1996-10-31</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Clackmannan</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10059">Keith Bradley</mp>
		<date>1996-10-31</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Manchester, Withington</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10600">Don Touhig</mp>
		<date>1996-10-31</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Islwyn</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10607">Dennis Turner</mp>
		<date>1996-10-31</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wolverhampton South East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10165">Stephen Day</mp>
		<date>1996-11-01</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Cheadle</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10085">Richard Caborn</mp>
		<date>1996-11-01</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Sheffield Central</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="21738">Russell Johnston</mp>
		<date>1996-11-01</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10554">Peter Snape</mp>
		<date>1996-11-04</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>West Bromwich East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10325">Nigel Jones</mp>
		<date>1996-11-04</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Cheltenham</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10401">Denis MacShane</mp>
		<date>1996-11-04</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Rotherham</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="22646">Emma Nicholson</mp>
		<date>1996-11-04</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Torridge &amp; West Devon</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10181">Gwyneth Dunwoody</mp>
		<date>1996-11-04</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Crewe &amp; Nantwich</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="19401">Gerard Vaughan</mp>
		<date>1996-11-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Reading East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10596">Stephen Timms</mp>
		<date>1996-11-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Newham North East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10087">Anne Campbell</mp>
		<date>1996-11-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Cambridge</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="22496">David Mitchell</mp>
		<date>1996-11-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North West Hampshire</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10379">Ian McCartney</mp>
		<date>1996-11-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Makerfield</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10294">Kim Howells</mp>
		<date>1996-11-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Pontypridd</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10238">Tommy Graham</mp>
		<date>1996-11-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Renfrew West and Inverclyde</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10253">Mike Hall</mp>
		<date>1996-11-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Warrington South</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10090">Dale Campbell-Savours</mp>
		<date>1996-11-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Workington</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="21906">Ivan Lawrence</mp>
		<date>1996-11-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Burton</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10324">Martyn Jones</mp>
		<date>1996-11-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Clwyd South West</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10262">Nick Harvey</mp>
		<date>1996-11-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North Devon</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10404">John McWilliam</mp>
		<date>1996-11-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Blaydon</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10618">Jim Wallace</mp>
		<date>1996-11-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Orkney &amp; Shetland</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10250">John Gunnell</mp>
		<date>1996-11-13</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Leeds South and Morley</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10163">Terry Davis</mp>
		<date>1996-11-13</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Birmingham, Hodge Hill</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="16879">James Callaghan</mp>
		<date>1996-11-13</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Heywood &amp; Middleton</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10286">Geoff Hoon</mp>
		<date>1996-11-13</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ashfield</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10393">Andrew MacKinlay</mp>
		<date>1996-11-19</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Thurrock</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10246">Win Griffiths</mp>
		<date>1996-11-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bridgend</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="22601">Allan Stewart</mp>
		<date>1996-11-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Renfrewshire East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10510">Allan Rogers</mp>
		<date>1996-12-03</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Rhondda</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10364">Ken Livingstone</mp>
		<date>1996-12-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Brent East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
</signatures>
</edm>
