Homepride Campbell Soups (No. 2)

EDM number 274 in 1995-96, proposed by DN Campbell-Savours on 15/01/1996.

That this House expresses profound concern over the decision of US multinational Campbell Soups to close the Homepride plant in Maryport, Cumbria; notes that the efforts of the honourable Member for Workington to secure a reversal of the d ecision to date include: discussions with the company on the need to reverse the decision, a meeting with the Prime Minister, a visit to the Campbell Soups plant in King's Lynn to n otify the workforce on transferred production, direct appeals to the Stratford on Avon and King's Lynn workforces on the need to question Campbell Soups' activities, attendance at the Campbell Soups AGM in Camden, New Jersey, to lobby American share holders, writing to the editors of 2,300 United Kingdom local newspapers on the question of a product boycott, writing letters to 600 constituency political organisations, writing 300 letters to every major supermarket group in the United Kingdom, writing to every local authority procurement organisation in the United Kingdom, approaches to key Campbell Soups executives in the US parent company, contact with local authority representatives in Cumbria seeking the widest possible political support for the campaign, contacts with trade unions both in the USA and United Kingdom, working with European Members of Parliament on the issue of boycott, the repeated asking of questions and making of interventions in parliament including an adjourment debate; and further notes that Campbell Soups still maintain the decision is irreversible and asks them to consider Early Day Motion number 269.

This motion has been signed by a total of 44 MPs.