<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><edm>
<id>39979</id>
<session>2009-10</session>
<number>415</number>
<title>Bankers' Remuneration And The Public Purse</title>
<proposer id="13735">Dai Davies</proposer>
<date>2009-12-09</date>
<text>That this House regards the salaries and bonuses of the chief executives of the leading high street banks as totally unacceptable when public sector workers have had legitimate claims for wage rises rejected on the grounds that to grant them would increase inflation; notes that at the same time ordinary bank workers are themselves still facing the uncertainty of possible job losses; further notes the respective salaries before bonuses in financial year 2007-08 of four of the leading high street banks were £4.19 million for Sir Fred Goodwin, Chief Executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland, £2.8 million for Eric Daniels, Chief Executive of Lloyds TSB, £2.4 million for John Varley, Chief Executive of Barclays and £1.9 million for Andy Hornby, Chief Executive of HBOS; believes that the remuneration of the chief executive of each bank accepting taxpayers' money for recapitalisation should be reduced to the equivalent of the average of all its employees, with no end-of-year bonus and that United Kingdom registered banks should be subject to a significant multi-billion windfall tax to raise funds for public investment; and further believes that the Government should ensure that any bank in receipt of taxpayers' support should not make redundant any ordinary workers.</text>
<topics>
	<topic>Financial institutions</topic>
	<topic>Pay</topic>
</topics>
<signatures>
	<signature>
		<mp id="13735">Dai Davies</mp>
		<date>2009-12-09</date>
		<type>Proposed</type>
		<constituency>Blaenau Gwent</constituency>
		<party>Independent</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10586">David Taylor</mp>
		<date>2009-12-10</date>
		<type>Withdrawn</type>
		<constituency>North West Leicestershire</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10177">David Drew</mp>
		<date>2009-12-10</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Stroud</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10305">Eric Illsley</mp>
		<date>2009-12-10</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Barnsley Central</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10616">Rudi Vis</mp>
		<date>2009-12-10</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Finchley and Golders Green</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10142">Ann Cryer</mp>
		<date>2009-12-14</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Keighley</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10623">Robert Wareing</mp>
		<date>2009-12-14</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Liverpool, West Derby</constituency>
		<party>Independent</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11245">Bob Spink</mp>
		<date>2009-12-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Castle Point</constituency>
		<party>Independent</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10258">Mike Hancock</mp>
		<date>2009-12-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Portsmouth South</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11589">Mark Durkan</mp>
		<date>2009-12-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Foyle</constituency>
		<party>Social Democratic and Labour Party</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10144">John Cummings</mp>
		<date>2009-12-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Easington</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10105">Michael Clapham</mp>
		<date>2009-12-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Barnsley West and Penistone</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10096">Martin Caton</mp>
		<date>2009-12-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Gower</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10383">John McDonnell</mp>
		<date>2009-12-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hayes and Harlington</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10288">Kelvin Hopkins</mp>
		<date>2009-12-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Luton North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10543">Marsha Singh</mp>
		<date>2009-12-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bradford West</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10541">Alan Simpson</mp>
		<date>2010-01-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Nottingham South</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10189">Bill Etherington</mp>
		<date>2010-01-19</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Sunderland North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10385">Eddie McGrady</mp>
		<date>2010-01-27</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>South Down</constituency>
		<party>Social Democratic and Labour Party</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10934">David Hamilton</mp>
		<date>2010-02-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Midlothian</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
</signatures>
</edm>