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Fair Taxation On Scotch Whisky

EDM number 222 in 1990-91, proposed by Keith Raffan on 12/12/1990.

That this House congratulates the Scotch whisky industry on its contribution to the United Kingdom economy, through export earnings abroad and Exchequer revenue at home; recognises the considerable employment provided by the industry in Scotland, particularly in rural areas; expresses serious concern at the discriminatory nature of excise duties on spirit drinks, whose present structure places Scotch whisky at a distinct competitive disadvantage, most notably with imported table wines and beer; and calls on Her Majesty's Government to commit itself to the gradual equalisation of excise duties on all alcoholic drinks on the basis of their alcoholic strength in order to eliminate damaging discrimination against the world's best-known spirit in its home market.

This motion has been signed by a total of 102 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Keith Raffan12/12/1990DelynProposed
Hector Monro12/12/1990DumfriesSeconded
William McKelvey12/12/1990Kilmarnock & LoudounSeconded
Margaret Ewing12/12/1990MoraySeconded
Charles Kennedy12/12/1990Ross and Cromarty and SkyeSeconded
John McAllion12/12/1990Dundee EastSeconded
John McFall12/12/1990DumbartonSigned
Ernie Ross13/12/1990Dundee WestSigned
Norman Godman13/12/1990Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
David Knox17/12/1990Staffordshire MoorlandsSigned
Robert Hicks18/12/1990South East CornwallSigned
David Lambie18/12/1990Cunninghame SouthSigned
Jim Wallace18/12/1990Orkney & ShetlandSigned
Ray Michie20/12/1990Argyll & ButeSigned
Marcus Fox20/12/1990ShipleySigned
Bill Walker20/12/1990North TaysideSigned
Roger Sims14/01/1991ChislehurstSigned
Tim Smith14/01/1991BeaconsfieldSigned
Jeremy Bray14/01/1991Motherwell SouthSigned
Mike Watson15/01/1991Glasgow CentralSigned
Brian Wilson15/01/1991Cunninghame NorthSigned
Robert Hughes17/01/1991Aberdeen NorthSigned
Menzies Campbell17/01/1991Fife North EastSigned
Diane Abbott17/01/1991Hackney North & Stoke NewingtonSigned
Irene Adams17/01/1991Paisley NorthSigned
Lewis Moonie24/01/1991KirkcaldySigned
Richard Caborn24/01/1991Sheffield CentralSigned
Ronnie Campbell24/01/1991Blyth ValleySigned
Harry Cohen24/01/1991LeytonSigned
John Cummings24/01/1991EasingtonSigned
Alexander Eadie24/01/1991MidlothianSigned
Harry Ewing24/01/1991Falkirk EastSigned
Alice Mahon28/01/1991HalifaxSigned
Robert Banks28/01/1991HarrogateSigned
Roy Hughes29/01/1991Newport EastSigned
Robert Maclennan29/01/1991Caithness and SutherlandSigned
Austin Mitchell29/01/1991Great GrimsbySigned
Patrick Cormack29/01/1991South StaffordshireSigned
Jimmy Dunnachie29/01/1991Glasgow, PollokSigned
Peter Griffiths29/01/1991Portsmouth NorthSigned
Michael Grylls29/01/1991Surrey North WestSigned
Gerry Bermingham29/01/1991St Helens SouthSigned
John Blackburn29/01/1991Dudley WestSigned
Tom Cox30/01/1991TootingSigned
James Cran30/01/1991BeverleySigned
Timothy Devlin30/01/1991Stockton SouthSigned
Tommy Graham30/01/1991Renfrew West and InverclydeSigned
Gwilym Jones05/02/1991Cardiff NorthSigned
James Kilfedder05/02/1991North DownSigned
Michael Mates05/02/1991East HampshireSigned
John McWilliam05/02/1991BlaydonSigned
Ian Bruce05/02/1991South DorsetSigned
Bill Cash05/02/1991StaffordSigned
Alistair Darling05/02/1991Edinburgh CentralSigned
Gwyneth Dunwoody05/02/1991Crewe & NantwichSigned
Janet Fookes05/02/1991Plymouth DrakeSigned
Harry Greenway05/02/1991Ealing NorthSigned
Nicholas Bonsor05/02/1991UpminsterSigned
Tom Pendry06/02/1991Stalybridge & HydeSigned
John Home Robertson06/02/1991East LothianSigned
Geoffrey Johnson Smith06/02/1991WealdenSigned
Paul Murphy06/02/1991TorfaenSigned
Simon Coombs06/02/1991SwindonSigned
Stephen Day06/02/1991CheadleSigned
Dennis Turner06/02/1991Wolverhampton South EastSigned
Ann Winterton06/02/1991CongletonSigned
Peter Hardy07/02/1991WentworthSigned
Richard Livsey07/02/1991Brecon and RadnorSigned
George Foulkes07/02/1991Carrick, Cumnock and Doon ValleySigned
Llin Golding07/02/1991Newcastle-under-LymeSigned
Peter Temple-Morris07/02/1991LeominsterSigned
Bowen Wells07/02/1991Hertford & StortfordSigned
James Wray07/02/1991Glasgow ProvanSigned
Peter Hordern11/02/1991HorshamSigned
Doug Hoyle11/02/1991Warrington NorthSigned
Edward O'Hara11/02/1991Knowsley SouthSigned
Malcolm Bruce11/02/1991GordonSigned
Robert Parry12/02/1991Liverpool, RiversideSigned
Tim Rathbone12/02/1991LewesSigned
Alex Salmond12/02/1991Banff & BuchanSigned
Jim Sillars12/02/1991Glasgow, GovanSigned
Archy Kirkwood12/02/1991Roxburgh & BerwickshireSigned
Joan Lestor12/02/1991EcclesSigned
Michael Martin12/02/1991Glasgow, SpringburnSigned
Gerard Vaughan12/02/1991Reading EastSigned
Nicholas Winterton12/02/1991MacclesfieldSigned
Andrew Welsh13/02/1991Angus EastSigned
Patrick Thompson14/02/1991Norwich NorthSigned
Gavin Strang15/02/1991Edinburgh EastSigned
Peter Pike18/02/1991BurnleySigned
Trevor Skeet18/02/1991Bedfordshire NorthSigned
Dudley Smith18/02/1991Warwick & LeamingtonSigned
James Spicer18/02/1991West DorsetSigned
Michael Colvin18/02/1991Romsey and WatersideSigned
David Steel18/02/1991Tweeddale, Ettrick and LauderdaleSigned
Nicholas Fairbairn19/02/1991Perth and KinrossSigned
Bill O'Brien20/02/1991NormantonSigned
Keith Bradley21/02/1991Manchester, WithingtonSigned
James Couchman26/02/1991GillinghamSigned
John Wilkinson05/03/1991Ruislip - NorthwoodSigned
Tony Worthington14/03/1991Clydebank & MilngavieSigned
Dick DouglasUnknownWithdrawn

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