Conduct Of Lord Walker (No. 4)

EDM number 2187 in 1992-93, proposed by Rhodri Morgan on 21/06/1993.

That this House expresses its strong disapproval of the involvement of the Industrial Council for Wales, a Conservative Party front organisation, and wholly administered from Party headquarters in Penlline Road, Whitchurch, Cardiff, in the process of appointments to top government jobs in Wales, following the revelations in Byd ar Bedwar, the Welsh language current affairs programme produced by HTV for S4C and broadcast on Monday night, 21st June, that Dr Gwyn-Jones, subsequently Chairman of the Welsh Development Agency, attended a fund-raising dinner organised by the Industrial Council for Wales on 2nd February 1988 at the Langland Court Hotel, Mumbles, Swansea, at which the guest of honour was Lord Walker, then the Secretary of State for Wales, and following which initial meeting across the Tory dining table, Lord Walker offered Dr Jones later that same month the chairmanship of the Welsh Development Agency, arguably the most powerful public sector job in Wales; further demands to know how much Dr Jones donated to Tory Party funds to secure his introductions to the then Secretary of State for Wales on his way to getting his job; and insists that the Tory Party separates forthwith its funding-raising activities from the process of making senior public sector appointment in Wales.

This motion has been signed by a total of 47 MPs.