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<id>44176</id>
<session>2012-13</session>
<number>44</number>
<title>Grocery Code Adjudicator</title>
<proposer id="10222">Andrew George</proposer>
<date>2012-05-10</date>
<text>That this House welcomes the publication of the Government's Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill; notes that the creation of an Adjudicator within the Office of Trading was the recommendation of the Competition Commission, which in 2008 found that larger supermarkets were abusing their market power, `transferring excessive risk and unexpected costs to their suppliers' and `that these practices would ultimately have a detrimental effect on consumers'; believes that large supermarkets have nothing to fear if they have nothing to hide and should embrace the Adjudicator as an opportunity to reassure their customers that they genuinely support the principles of fair trade; and calls on all parties to work to enact this Bill and introduce the Adjudicator as soon as possible.</text>
<topics>
	<topic>Service industries</topic>
</topics>
<signatures>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10222">Andrew George</mp>
		<date>2012-05-10</date>
		<type>Proposed</type>
		<constituency>St Ives</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11148">Albert Owen</mp>
		<date>2012-05-10</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Ynys M</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11513">Daniel Rogerson</mp>
		<date>2012-05-10</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>North Cornwall</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11458">Stephen Williams</mp>
		<date>2012-05-10</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Bristol West</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="24779">Neil Parish</mp>
		<date>2012-05-10</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Tiverton and Honiton</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="24928">Stephen Gilbert</mp>
		<date>2012-05-10</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>St Austell and Newquay</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10521">Bob Russell</mp>
		<date>2012-05-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Colchester</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11817">Daniel Kawczynski</mp>
		<date>2012-05-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Shrewsbury &amp; Atcham</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11707">John Leech</mp>
		<date>2012-05-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Manchester, Withington</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10057">Peter Bottomley</mp>
		<date>2012-05-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Worthing West</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10258">Mike Hancock</mp>
		<date>2012-05-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Portsmouth South</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11589">Mark Durkan</mp>
		<date>2012-05-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Foyle</constituency>
		<party>Social Democratic and Labour Party</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10383">John McDonnell</mp>
		<date>2012-05-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hayes &amp; Harlington</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11892">David Simpson</mp>
		<date>2012-05-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Upper Bann</constituency>
		<party>DUP</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="13864">Jim Shannon</mp>
		<date>2012-05-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Strangford</constituency>
		<party>DUP</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="24794">Michael Crockart</mp>
		<date>2012-05-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Edinburgh West</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10096">Martin Caton</mp>
		<date>2012-05-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Gower</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10089">Ronnie Campbell</mp>
		<date>2012-05-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Blyth Valley</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10780">Gregory Campbell</mp>
		<date>2012-05-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>East Londonderry</constituency>
		<party>DUP</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="13852">Ian Paisley Jnr</mp>
		<date>2012-05-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North Antrim</constituency>
		<party>DUP</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10467">Sandra Osborne</mp>
		<date>2012-05-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ayr, Carrick &amp; Cumnock</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10679">William McCrea</mp>
		<date>2012-05-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>South Antrim</constituency>
		<party>DUP</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="13856">Margaret Ritchie</mp>
		<date>2012-05-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>South Down</constituency>
		<party>Social Democratic and Labour Party</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11672">Greg Mulholland</mp>
		<date>2012-05-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Leeds North West</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11312">Michael Weir</mp>
		<date>2012-05-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Angus</constituency>
		<party>Scottish National Party</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10857">Nigel Dodds</mp>
		<date>2012-05-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Belfast North</constituency>
		<party>DUP</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10368">Elfyn Llwyd</mp>
		<date>2012-05-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Meirionnydd Nant Conwy</constituency>
		<party>Plaid Cymru</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10754">Annette Brooke</mp>
		<date>2012-05-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Mid Dorset &amp; North Poole</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10074">Malcolm Bruce</mp>
		<date>2012-05-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Gordon</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10367">Tony Lloyd</mp>
		<date>2012-05-23</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Manchester Central</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11174">John Pugh</mp>
		<date>2012-05-24</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Southport</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
</signatures>
</edm>
