Emergency In The East Midlands (2)

EDM number 223 in 1990-91, proposed by Harry Barnes on 12/12/1990.

That this House re-affirms its deep concern for the plight of masses of people in the East Midlands who are still without electricity supplies some 250,000 people were still without electricity supplies and that under present arrangements significant numbers of these will be without electricity for well over a week before their supplies are reconnected; expresses admiration for the considerable efforts of hard-pressed electricity workers in their attempts to re-establish supplies; but condemns utterly the failure of the Department of Energy to either declare that an emergency exists or to move essential resources into the East Midlands to tackle the crisis; regrets that East Midland Electricity has itself failed to ask the Department of Energy to take emergency action; and believes that this is due to fears of the impact that such a move would have upon the flotation and sale of its electricity shares.

This motion has been signed by a total of 15 MPs.