20442 2001-02 1274 Derek Wyatt 2002-05-09 That this House is dismayed at the decision by English Rugby Ltd not to allow Rotherham RFU Club, as winners of the first division, promotion to the Zurich Premiership; calls on the Secretaries of State for Trade and Industry and for Culture, Media and Sport to ask the Office of Fair Trading to investigate immediately, and to report by 31st May, the head leases and ownership clauses of the current members of the Zurich Premiership, whether English Rugby Ltd is a cartel and the reasons why Rotherham RFU has been denied its rightful place in the Zurich Premiership; and furthermore requests the Minister of Sport to review the public funding by Sport England of grants to rugby union clubs. Derek Wyatt 2002-05-09 Proposed Sittingbourne & Sheppey Labour David Drew 2002-05-09 Signed Stroud Labour Co-operative Paul Farrelly 2002-05-09 Signed Newcastle-under-Lyme Labour Gareth Thomas 2002-05-09 Signed Harrow West Labour Ian Davidson 2002-05-13 Signed Glasgow, Pollok Labour Co-operative Huw Edwards 2002-05-13 Signed Monmouth Labour Neil Gerrard 2002-05-13 Signed Walthamstow Labour David Borrow 2002-05-13 Signed South Ribble Labour Dennis Turner 2002-05-13 Signed Wolverhampton South East Labour Co-operative Ronnie Campbell 2002-05-13 Signed Blyth Valley Labour Iain Luke 2002-05-13 Signed Dundee East Labour Kevan Jones 2002-05-13 Signed North Durham Labour George Howarth 2002-05-13 Signed Knowsley North & Sefton East Labour Doug Henderson 2002-05-13 Signed Newcastle upon Tyne North Labour Gordon Prentice 2002-05-13 Signed Pendle Labour Colin Pickthall 2002-05-13 Signed West Lancashire Labour Tony Baldry 2002-05-14 Signed Banbury Conservative David Amess 2002-05-14 Signed Southend West Conservative Ian Gibson 2002-05-14 Signed Norwich North Labour David Clelland 2002-05-14 Signed Tyne Bridge Labour John Mann 2002-05-14 Signed Bassetlaw Labour Martyn Jones 2002-05-14 Signed Clwyd South Labour Chris Pond 2002-05-14 Signed Gravesham Labour Bob Russell 2002-05-15 Signed Colchester Liberal Democrat Rudi Vis 2002-05-16 Signed Finchley & Golders Green Labour Tony Cunningham 2002-05-16 Signed Workington Labour Andy Burnham 2002-05-16 Signed Leigh Labour Eric Illsley 2002-05-16 Signed Barnsley Central Labour Hywel Francis 2002-05-20 Signed Aberavon Labour Peter Kilfoyle 2002-05-21 Signed Liverpool, Walton Labour John McDonnell 2002-05-21 Signed Hayes & Harlington Labour Edward O'Hara 2002-05-21 Signed Knowsley South Labour Alan Keen 2002-06-10 Signed Feltham & Heston Labour Co-operative David Miliband Withdrawn