Closure Of Bat Factory In Liverpool

EDM number 81 in 1989-90, proposed by Robert Parry on 27/11/1989.

That this House deplores the announcement by the British American Tobacco Company of the closure of their Liverpool factory, four weeks before Christmas, with the loss of 500 jobs; notes that British American Tobacco Company's latest annual report shows a projected profit of two billion pounds; and calls upon Her Majesty's Government to have urgent talks with the British American Tobacco Company in an attempt to put together a regional investment package which will avert the closure in the Liverpool, Riverside constituency which has the highest unemployment level in England, Scotland and Wales.

This motion has been signed by a total of 118 MPs, 2 of these signatures have been withdrawn.