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Skye Bridge Tolls

EDM number 1453 in 1994-95, proposed by Charles Kennedy on 16/10/1995.

That this House, noting the formal opening on 16th October of the Skye Bridge, records that at the outset people locally were assured that their wishes would be paramount over the matter; observes that when the Highland Regional Council voted to approve the privately-funded toll package all but one of its representatives from Skye and Lochalsh voted against the imposition; further emphasises that opposition to the level of tolls has led to the boycotting of the opening ceremony by both parliamentary and district council representatives from the area; and therefore calls upon Her Majesty's Government to acknowledge and act upon the manifest injustice of the communities of Skye and Lochalsh and the Western Isles having to suffer the most expensive toll regime in Europe.

This motion has been signed by a total of 49 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Charles Kennedy16/10/1995Ross and Cromarty and SkyeProposed
Calum MacDonald16/10/1995Na h-Eileanan an IarSeconded
Russell Johnston16/10/1995Inverness, Nairn and LochaberSeconded
Robert Hughes16/10/1995Aberdeen NorthSeconded
Roseanna Cunningham16/10/1995Perth and KinrossSeconded
Archy Kirkwood16/10/1995Roxburgh & BerwickshireSigned
Robert Maclennan16/10/1995Caithness and SutherlandSigned
Thomas McAvoy16/10/1995Glasgow, RutherglenSigned
Lewis Moonie16/10/1995KirkcaldySigned
Menzies Campbell16/10/1995Fife North EastSigned
Tommy Graham16/10/1995Renfrew West and InverclydeSigned
Mike Watson16/10/1995Glasgow CentralSigned
John McAllion17/10/1995Dundee EastSigned
Dennis Turner17/10/1995Wolverhampton South EastSigned
Hugh Bayley17/10/1995York, City ofSigned
Harry Barnes17/10/1995North East DerbyshireSigned
Norman Godman17/10/1995Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
Jim Dowd17/10/1995Lewisham WestSigned
Lynne Jones17/10/1995Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
Colin Pickthall17/10/1995West LancashireSigned
Paul Tyler18/10/1995North CornwallSigned
Jack Thompson18/10/1995WansbeckSigned
John Evans18/10/1995St Helens NorthSigned
Jimmy Dunnachie18/10/1995Glasgow, PollokSigned
John Cummings18/10/1995EasingtonSigned
Helen Liddell18/10/1995Monklands EastSigned
Jimmy Hood18/10/1995ClydesdaleSigned
John Home Robertson18/10/1995East LothianSigned
Ken Livingstone18/10/1995Brent EastSigned
Bridget Prentice19/10/1995Lewisham EastSigned
Nick Harvey19/10/1995North DevonSigned
Barry Jones19/10/1995Alyn & DeesideSigned
Elfyn Llwyd19/10/1995Meirionnydd Nant ConwySigned
Michael Clapham19/10/1995Barnsley West & PenistoneSigned
Michael Connarty19/10/1995Falkirk EastSigned
Win Griffiths19/10/1995BridgendSigned
Jim Wallace19/10/1995Orkney & ShetlandSigned
Andrew Faulds20/10/1995Warley EastSigned
Allan Rogers23/10/1995RhonddaSigned
Eddie Loyden23/10/1995Liverpool, GarstonSigned
William McKelvey23/10/1995Kilmarnock & LoudounSigned
Alex Carlile23/10/1995MontgomerySigned
George Foulkes23/10/1995Carrick, Cumnock and Doon ValleySigned
Ieuan Wyn Jones24/10/1995Ynys MSigned
Jeremy Bray24/10/1995Motherwell SouthSigned
Nigel Jones25/10/1995CheltenhamSigned
Mike Hall26/10/1995Warrington SouthSigned
Malcolm Bruce27/10/1995GordonSigned
Audrey Wise01/11/1995PrestonSigned

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