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Effect Of The Tobacco Products Labelling (Safety) Regulations 1991

EDM number 1180 in 1990-91, proposed by Terry Patchett on 23/07/1991.

That this House views with the gravest concern the decision by Her Majesty's Government to table the Tobacco Products Labelling (Safety) Regulations 1991 which introduce new health warnings on packets of cigarettes produced by United Kingdom manufacturers that will have the effect of putting such manufacturers at a serious disadvantage against foreign manufacturers who export to the United Kingdom; notes with disbelief that this discrimination arises from the fact that the regulations will permit importers to use less stringent regulations currently applicable in other European Community countries concerning the size and wording of health warnings; draws attention to the serious effect this trading disadvantage will have on the employment in United Kingdom manufacturing plants; and calls on the Government to take action to stem the export of manufacturing plants; and calls on the Government to take action to stem the export of United Kingdom jobs to foreign countries by withdrawing the regulations and replacing them with regulations that meet the terms of the European Directive but do not disadvantage the United Kingdom tobacco industry.

This motion has been signed by a total of 20 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Terry Patchett23/07/1991Barnsley EastProposed
Barry Porter23/07/1991Wirral SouthSigned
Martin Redmond23/07/1991Don ValleySigned
Peter Hardy23/07/1991WentworthSigned
Andrew Hunter23/07/1991BasingstokeSigned
Ronnie Campbell23/07/1991Blyth ValleySigned
John Cummings23/07/1991EasingtonSigned
Richard Alexander23/07/1991NewarkSigned
Bill Cash24/07/1991StaffordSigned
Ann Winterton24/07/1991CongletonSigned
Cecil Walker24/07/1991Belfast NorthSigned
Jack Aspinwall24/07/1991WansdykeSigned
David Knox24/07/1991Staffordshire MoorlandsSigned
Robert Parry24/07/1991Liverpool, RiversideSigned
Tom Pendry25/07/1991Stalybridge & HydeSigned
Peter Griffiths15/10/1991Portsmouth NorthSigned
Alan Meale16/10/1991MansfieldSigned
Roy Beggs16/10/1991East AntrimSigned
Dennis Turner16/10/1991Wolverhampton South EastSigned
Huw EdwardsUnknownWithdrawn

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