Privatised Firework Safety Campaign
EDM number 1070 in 1993-94, proposed by Nigel Griffiths on 19/04/1994.
That this House notes with concern that blinkered ideology and the privatisation of last year's firework safety campaign has contributed to a rise in the number of injuries to over 1,000, a 20 year high; notes that the Government ignored repeated warnings from safety experts and others that the privatised campaign would be a disaster; notes that when civil servants ran the safety campaign firework injuires were less than 1,000; notes that the Government gave the contract to a French company subsidiary, Euro RSCG, and doubled the budget previously administered by civil servants to ú160,000; notes that the Minister cancelled the key firework safety booklet, Safer Displays, against the advice of civil servants and to the consternation of Britain's fire chiefs; notes that the fire posters produced by Europe RSCG were so poor that fire departments refused to circulate them and that television advertisements were so ineffective that they were cancelled; calls on Euro RSCG to return the fee they received from the DTI and compensate the victims of firework injuries; requests the National Audit Office and the Committee of Public Accounts to investigate how this campaign came to be privatised and why the spending of public money was so ineffective, and to make recommendations to ensure that future firework safety campaigns are run effectively by experienced civil servants and fire safety experts; and regrets that Ministers are seeking to abolish the licensing of imported fireworks, thus putting the public at risk from potentially dangerous category 4 fireworks.
This motion has been signed by a total of 85 MPs.
MP | Date | Constituency | Party | Type |
Nigel Griffiths | 19/04/1994 | Edinburgh South | | Proposed |
Ken Purchase | 19/04/1994 | Wolverhampton North East | | Signed |
Brian Wilson | 19/04/1994 | Cunninghame North | | Signed |
Kevin Barron | 19/04/1994 | Rother Valley | | Signed |
Win Griffiths | 19/04/1994 | Bridgend | | Signed |
Irene Adams | 19/04/1994 | Paisley North | | Signed |
Angela Eagle | 19/04/1994 | Wallasey | | Signed |
Jimmy Dunnachie | 19/04/1994 | Glasgow, Pollok | | Signed |
Ann Coffey | 19/04/1994 | Stockport | | Signed |
Keith Bradley | 19/04/1994 | Manchester, Withington | | Signed |
Martin O'Neill | 19/04/1994 | Clackmannan | | Signed |
Bill Michie | 19/04/1994 | Sheffield, Heeley | | Signed |
William McKelvey | 19/04/1994 | Kilmarnock & Loudoun | | Signed |
Alun Michael | 19/04/1994 | Cardiff South & Penarth | | Signed |
Barbara Roche | 19/04/1994 | Hornsey & Wood Green | | Signed |
Allan Rogers | 19/04/1994 | Rhondda | | Signed |
Adam Ingram | 19/04/1994 | East Kilbride | | Signed |
David Jamieson | 19/04/1994 | Plymouth, Devonport | | Signed |
Martyn Jones | 19/04/1994 | Clwyd South West | | Signed |
John Maxton | 19/04/1994 | Glasgow, Cathcart | | Signed |
John McAllion | 19/04/1994 | Dundee East | | Signed |
John McFall | 19/04/1994 | Dumbarton | | Signed |
Edward O'Hara | 20/04/1994 | Knowsley South | | Signed |
Richard Burden | 20/04/1994 | Birmingham, Northfield | | Signed |
Ronnie Campbell | 20/04/1994 | Blyth Valley | | Signed |
Alex Carlile | 20/04/1994 | Montgomery | | Signed |
Malcolm Chisholm | 20/04/1994 | Edinburgh Leith | | Signed |
John Cummings | 20/04/1994 | Easington | | Signed |
Lawrence Cunliffe | 20/04/1994 | Leigh | | Signed |
Ian Davidson | 20/04/1994 | Glasgow, Govan | | Signed |
John Evans | 20/04/1994 | St Helens North | | Signed |
Andrew Faulds | 20/04/1994 | Warley East | | Signed |
Norman Godman | 20/04/1994 | Greenock and Port Glasgow | | Signed |
Tony Banks | 20/04/1994 | Newham North West | | Signed |
Harry Barnes | 20/04/1994 | North East Derbyshire | | Signed |
Hugh Bayley | 20/04/1994 | York, City of | | Signed |
Mike Watson | 20/04/1994 | Glasgow Central | | Signed |
Eddie Loyden | 20/04/1994 | Liverpool, Garston | | Signed |
Alice Mahon | 20/04/1994 | Halifax | | Signed |
Colin Pickthall | 20/04/1994 | West Lancashire | | Signed |
Terry Patchett | 20/04/1994 | Barnsley East | | Signed |
Bridget Prentice | 20/04/1994 | Lewisham East | | Signed |
Dawn Primarolo | 20/04/1994 | Bristol South | | Signed |
Martin Redmond | 20/04/1994 | Don Valley | | Signed |
Jeff Rooker | 20/04/1994 | Birmingham, Perry Barr | | Signed |
Ernie Ross | 20/04/1994 | Dundee West | | Signed |
John Heppell | 20/04/1994 | Nottingham East | | Signed |
Norman Hogg | 20/04/1994 | Cumbernauld & Kilsyth | | Signed |
Kim Howells | 20/04/1994 | Pontypridd | | Signed |
Eric Illsley | 20/04/1994 | Barnsley Central | | Signed |
Barry Jones | 20/04/1994 | Alyn & Deeside | | Signed |
Lynne Jones | 20/04/1994 | Birmingham, Selly Oak | | Signed |
Peter Hardy | 20/04/1994 | Wentworth | | Signed |
Jim Dowd | 21/04/1994 | Lewisham West | | Signed |
David Clelland | 21/04/1994 | Tyne Bridge | | Signed |
Derek Enright | 21/04/1994 | Hemsworth | | Signed |
Paul Flynn | 21/04/1994 | Newport West | | Signed |
Roger Godsiff | 21/04/1994 | Birmingham Small Heath | | Signed |
Tommy Graham | 21/04/1994 | Renfrew West and Inverclyde | | Signed |
John Gunnell | 21/04/1994 | Leeds South and Morley | | Signed |
Mike Hall | 21/04/1994 | Warrington South | | Signed |
Gerry Steinberg | 21/04/1994 | Durham, City of | | Signed |
Dennis Turner | 21/04/1994 | Wolverhampton South East | | Signed |
Jeremy Corbyn | 21/04/1994 | Islington North | | Signed |
Eric Clarke | 21/04/1994 | Midlothian | | Signed |
James Callaghan | 21/04/1994 | Heywood & Middleton | | Signed |
Alan Milburn | 21/04/1994 | Darlington | | Signed |
Alan Meale | 21/04/1994 | Mansfield | | Signed |
Roy Hughes | 21/04/1994 | Newport East | | Signed |
Keith Hill | 21/04/1994 | Streatham | | Signed |
Peter Pike | 21/04/1994 | Burnley | | Signed |
David Hanson | 21/04/1994 | Delyn | | Signed |
Tom Cox | 21/04/1994 | Tooting | | Signed |
John Battle | 22/04/1994 | Leeds West | | Signed |
Michael Clapham | 22/04/1994 | Barnsley West & Penistone | | Signed |
Joan Ruddock | 25/04/1994 | Lewisham, Deptford | | Signed |
Harry Cohen | 25/04/1994 | Leyton | | Signed |
Michael Connarty | 25/04/1994 | Falkirk East | | Signed |
Paddy Tipping | 25/04/1994 | Sherwood | | Signed |
Jim Wallace | 25/04/1994 | Orkney & Shetland | | Signed |
Ken Livingstone | 26/04/1994 | Brent East | | Signed |
Bruce Grocott | 26/04/1994 | Wrekin, The | | Signed |
Robert Wareing | 26/04/1994 | Liverpool, West Derby | | Signed |
Andrew Miller | 28/04/1994 | Ellesmere Port & Neston | | Signed |
George Galloway | 29/04/1994 | Glasgow Hillhead | | Signed |
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