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Chartered Association Of Certified Accountants

EDM number 125 in 1993-94, proposed by Austin Mitchell on 30/11/1993.

That this House has no confidence in the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants which acts as a regulator under the Companies Act 1989, Financial Services Act 1986 and the Insolvency Act 1986 and enjoys the privileges granted to it by chartered status, but is at the same time a closed and undemocratic body with no secret ballots for elections to its Council, because the ballot papers are returned to the Secretary and counted by those with a direct interest in the outcomes and election candidates are denied the right to be present at the count or demand a recount; condemns the Association for reserving 50 per cent. of its Council seats for just 8 per cent. of the membership and disenfranchising a large number of its members by deliberately giving inadequate time for a return of the ballot papers, for not holding direct contested elections for its president, deputy president or the vice-president and for consistently failing to have its officers elected by the entire Council or even by a show of hands at the AGM, for giving its unelected officers the right to cast hundreds of votes, while denying the public any access to its Council meetings and to agenda papers or minutes; and therefore suggests that because the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants is unfit to be a regulator the Government should take immediate action to reduce its status and privileges.

This motion has been signed by a total of 40 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Austin Mitchell30/11/1993Great GrimsbyProposed
Eddie Loyden01/12/1993Liverpool, GarstonSigned
Jim Dowd01/12/1993Lewisham WestSigned
Eric Clarke01/12/1993MidlothianSigned
Michael Clapham01/12/1993Barnsley West & PenistoneSigned
Alan Meale01/12/1993MansfieldSigned
Harry Barnes06/12/1993North East DerbyshireSigned
Ken Livingstone07/12/1993Brent EastSigned
Jimmy Dunnachie07/12/1993Glasgow, PollokSigned
Greg Pope08/12/1993HyndburnSigned
John Cummings08/12/1993EasingtonSigned
Tommy Graham08/12/1993Renfrew West and InverclydeSigned
John Gunnell08/12/1993Leeds South and MorleySigned
Mike Hall14/12/1993Warrington SouthSigned
Terry Davis15/12/1993Birmingham, Hodge HillSigned
Bill Etherington16/12/1993Sunderland NorthSigned
Alan Williams16/12/1993Swansea WestSigned
Tony Wright16/12/1993Cannock and BurntwoodSigned
Nick Ainger17/12/1993PembrokeSigned
Joe Benton11/01/1994BootleSigned
Jim Cousins11/01/1994Newcastle upon Tyne CentralSigned
Gordon Prentice12/01/1994PendleSigned
Mike O'Brien19/01/1994North WarwickshireSigned
Martin O'Neill19/01/1994ClackmannanSigned
George Stevenson19/01/1994Stoke-on-Trent SouthSigned
Joan Walley19/01/1994Stoke-on-Trent NorthSigned
Roger Godsiff26/01/1994Birmingham Small HeathSigned
Barry Sheerman01/02/1994HuddersfieldSigned
Joe Ashton02/02/1994BassetlawSigned
Derek Enright02/02/1994HemsworthSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe02/02/1994LeighSigned
Roland Boyes03/02/1994Houghton and WashingtonSigned
Dale Campbell-Savours03/02/1994WorkingtonSigned
Martyn Jones08/02/1994Clwyd South WestSigned
Bill Olner09/02/1994NuneatonSigned
Ann Coffey09/02/1994StockportSigned
Alan Wynne Williams09/02/1994CarmarthenSigned
Audrey Wise15/02/1994PrestonSigned
John Garrett21/04/1994Norwich SouthSigned
Jimmy BoyceUnknownWithdrawn

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