<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><edm>
<id>18722</id>
<session>1999-00</session>
<number>269A1</number>
<title>DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY STANDARD'S MILLENNIUM JOBS CRUSADE;Amdt. line 1:</title>
<proposer id="10070">Russell Brown</proposer>
<date>2000-01-18</date>
<text>leave out from 'notes' to 'congratulates' in line 2 and insert 'that due to government initiatives such as the New Deal, the introduction of a national minimum wage, and the excellent work of the local enterprise company, unemployment claimant figures in Dumfries and Galloway have fallen 25.6 per cent, over a three-year period to November 1999;'.</text>
<topics>
</topics>
<signatures>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10070">Russell Brown</mp>
		<date>2000-01-18</date>
		<type>Proposed</type>
		<constituency>Dumfries</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10513">Ernie Ross</mp>
		<date>2000-01-18</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Dundee West</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10453">Jim Murphy</mp>
		<date>2000-01-19</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Renfrewshire East</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10071">Des Browne</mp>
		<date>2000-01-19</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Kilmarnock &amp; Loudoun</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10216">Sam Galbraith</mp>
		<date>2000-01-19</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Strathkelvin &amp; Bearsden</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10226">Ian Gibson</mp>
		<date>2000-01-19</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Norwich North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10568">David Stewart</mp>
		<date>2000-01-19</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10653">Tony Worthington</mp>
		<date>2000-01-19</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Clydebank &amp; Milngavie</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10494">Lawrie Quinn</mp>
		<date>2000-01-20</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Scarborough &amp; Whitby</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10189">Bill Etherington</mp>
		<date>2000-01-24</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Sunderland North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10616">Rudi Vis</mp>
		<date>2000-01-24</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Finchley &amp; Golders Green</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10128">Michael Connarty</mp>
		<date>2000-01-25</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Falkirk East</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10230">Norman Godman</mp>
		<date>2000-01-25</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Greenock &amp; Inverclyde</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10528">Mohammad Sarwar</mp>
		<date>2000-02-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Glasgow, Govan</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10541">Alan Simpson</mp>
		<date>2000-03-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Nottingham South</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10021">John Austin</mp>
		<date>2000-03-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Erith &amp; Thamesmead</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
</signatures>
</edm>
