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Accuracy Of The Unemployment Figures

EDM number 525 in 1996-97, proposed by Greville Janner on 12/02/1997.

That this House draws attention to the Government's fraudulent unemployment figures which ignore the latest Labourforce Survey which shows unemployment about 302,000 higher than the Government's claimant count and further ignores the findings of the Employment Policy Institute that the number of jobless people who say that they want a job is well over four million, and not the 1.8 million registered by the Government's deliberately flawed claimant count; and calls on the Government to come clean on the true level of unemployment and the job insecurity and human sufdfering that unemployment causes in pre-election Britain.

This motion has been signed by a total of 95 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Greville Janner12/02/1997Leicester WestProposed
Angela Eagle12/02/1997WallaseySeconded
Peter Shore12/02/1997Bethnal Green and StepneySeconded
Ernie Ross12/02/1997Dundee WestSeconded
Kevin McNamara12/02/1997Kingston upon Hull NorthSeconded
Win Griffiths12/02/1997BridgendSeconded
Paul Flynn12/02/1997Newport WestSigned
Ronnie Campbell12/02/1997Blyth ValleySigned
Andrew Faulds12/02/1997Warley EastSigned
Jeff Ennis12/02/1997Barnsley EastSigned
Kenneth Eastham12/02/1997Manchester, BlackleySigned
Gwyneth Dunwoody12/02/1997Crewe & NantwichSigned
Brian H Donohoe12/02/1997Cunninghame SouthSigned
Jean Corston12/02/1997Bristol EastSigned
Robin Corbett12/02/1997Birmingham, ErdingtonSigned
Michael Clapham12/02/1997Barnsley West & PenistoneSigned
Dale Campbell-Savours12/02/1997WorkingtonSigned
Dennis Turner12/02/1997Wolverhampton South EastSigned
Don Foster12/02/1997BathSigned
Maria Fyfe12/02/1997Glasgow, MaryhillSigned
Mike Gapes12/02/1997Ilford SouthSigned
John Garrett12/02/1997Norwich SouthSigned
Tony Banks12/02/1997Newham North WestSigned
Harry Barnes12/02/1997North East DerbyshireSigned
Tony Benn12/02/1997ChesterfieldSigned
Alan Williams12/02/1997Swansea WestSigned
Alan Wynne Williams12/02/1997CarmarthenSigned
David Winnick12/02/1997Walsall NorthSigned
Tony Wright12/02/1997Cannock and BurntwoodSigned
Paul Murphy12/02/1997TorfaenSigned
Anne Campbell12/02/1997CambridgeSigned
Nigel Griffiths12/02/1997Edinburgh SouthSigned
Colin Pickthall12/02/1997West LancashireSigned
Peter Pike12/02/1997BurnleySigned
Ian Pearson12/02/1997Dudley WestSigned
Greg Pope12/02/1997HyndburnSigned
Gordon Prentice12/02/1997PendleSigned
David Rendel12/02/1997NewburySigned
Barry Sheerman12/02/1997HuddersfieldSigned
Dennis Skinner12/02/1997BolsoverSigned
Peter Hardy12/02/1997WentworthSigned
Kate Hoey12/02/1997VauxhallSigned
John Home Robertson12/02/1997East LothianSigned
David Jamieson12/02/1997Plymouth, DevonportSigned
Barry Jones12/02/1997Alyn & DeesideSigned
Terry Lewis12/02/1997WorsleySigned
Alice Mahon12/02/1997HalifaxSigned
John McAllion12/02/1997Dundee EastSigned
Robert McCartney12/02/1997North DownSigned
William McKelvey12/02/1997Kilmarnock & LoudounSigned
Andrew Miller12/02/1997Ellesmere Port & NestonSigned
Margaret Hodge12/02/1997BarkingSigned
Bridget Prentice13/02/1997Lewisham EastSigned
Paddy Tipping13/02/1997SherwoodSigned
Gerry Sutcliffe13/02/1997Bradford SouthSigned
John Battle13/02/1997Leeds WestSigned
John Evans13/02/1997St Helens NorthSigned
Bill Michie13/02/1997Sheffield, HeeleySigned
John McWilliam13/02/1997BlaydonSigned
Eric Martlew13/02/1997CarlisleSigned
Ken Livingstone13/02/1997Brent EastSigned
Lynne Jones13/02/1997Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
Tom Cox14/02/1997TootingSigned
Hugh Bayley14/02/1997York, City ofSigned
Bruce Grocott14/02/1997Wrekin, TheSigned
Joan Lestor17/02/1997EcclesSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe17/02/1997LeighSigned
Jim Cunningham17/02/1997Coventry South EastSigned
Roy Hughes18/02/1997Newport EastSigned
Eric Illsley18/02/1997Barnsley CentralSigned
David Marshall18/02/1997Glasgow, ShettlestonSigned
Keith Bradley18/02/1997Manchester, WithingtonSigned
Michael Connarty18/02/1997Falkirk EastSigned
Norman Godman18/02/1997Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
Gerry Steinberg18/02/1997Durham, City ofSigned
Dafydd Wigley18/02/1997CaernarfonSigned
Nick Harvey19/02/1997North DevonSigned
Eric Clarke20/02/1997MidlothianSigned
Audrey Wise20/02/1997PrestonSigned
Neil Gerrard20/02/1997WalthamstowSigned
Ian Davidson20/02/1997Glasgow, GovanSigned
Alan Meale20/02/1997MansfieldSigned
Rachel Squire20/02/1997Dunfermline WestSigned
Elfyn Llwyd24/02/1997Meirionnydd Nant ConwySigned
Mike Hall24/02/1997Warrington SouthSigned
Donald Dixon25/02/1997JarrowSigned
David Chidgey26/02/1997EastleighSigned
Eddie Loyden27/02/1997Liverpool, GarstonSigned
Bill Etherington27/02/1997Sunderland NorthSigned
Jack Thompson27/02/1997WansbeckSigned
Terry Davis05/03/1997Birmingham, Hodge HillSigned
John Gunnell05/03/1997Leeds South and MorleySigned
Roseanna Cunningham10/03/1997Perth and KinrossSigned
Martyn Jones18/03/1997Clwyd South WestSigned
James Callaghan20/03/1997Heywood & MiddletonSigned

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