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Newsagents (No. 2)

EDM number 294 in 1997-98, proposed by Roger Berry on 24/07/1997.

That this House deplores the fact that newsagents remain under unacceptable pressures as a result of monopolistic practices by wholesalers and publishers resulting in the continued imposition of unjustified carriage charge increases and reduced margins, which is leading to an escalating number of business failures and reductions in the level of service to the public; is further disappointed that, despite the optimistic assurances by a former Minister for Corporate Affairs, who believed that voluntary solutions could be achieved, publishers and wholesalers have instead used the time allotted for 'conciliation' by the Director General of Fair Trading further to disadvantage the retailers; and calls upon the President of the Board of Trade and the Minister for Corporate Affairs to refer this matter forthwith to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission in order to bring about a structure which will empower newsagents to negotiate terms and conditions on a normal commercial basis.

This motion has been signed by a total of 52 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Roger Berry24/07/1997KingswoodLabourProposed
Nick Harvey24/07/1997North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
Dafydd Wigley24/07/1997CaernarfonPlaid CymruSigned
Margaret Ewing24/07/1997MorayScottish National PartySigned
Peter Bottomley24/07/1997Worthing WestConservativeSigned
John Austin28/07/1997Erith & ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Rudi Vis28/07/1997Finchley & Golders GreenLabourSigned
Lynne Jones29/07/1997Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Paul Keetch29/07/1997HerefordLiberal DemocratSigned
Ken Livingstone29/07/1997Brent EastLabourSigned
Brian Cotter29/07/1997Weston-Super-MareLiberal DemocratSigned
John Cryer29/07/1997HornchurchLabourSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe29/07/1997LeighLabourSigned
Norman Godman29/07/1997Greenock & InverclydeLabourSigned
Adrian Sanders30/07/1997TorbayLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Tyler30/07/1997North CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew Stunell30/07/1997Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
Harry Barnes30/07/1997North East DerbyshireLabourSigned
Donald Gorrie30/07/1997Edinburgh WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Jeremy Corbyn30/07/1997Islington NorthLabourSigned
Colin Breed30/07/1997South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Eric Illsley30/07/1997Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins31/07/1997Luton NorthLabourSigned
Edward Davey31/07/1997Kingston & SurbitonLiberal DemocratSigned
Joan Walley27/10/1997Stoke-on-Trent NorthLabourSigned
Jim Wallace27/10/1997Orkney & ShetlandLiberal DemocratSigned
David Rendel27/10/1997NewburyLiberal DemocratSigned
Ray Michie27/10/1997Argyll & ButeLiberal DemocratSigned
Brian Sedgemore30/10/1997Hackney South & ShoreditchLabourSigned
Vincent Cable30/10/1997TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Maria Eagle30/10/1997Liverpool, GarstonLabourSigned
Harry Cohen03/11/1997Leyton & WansteadLabourSigned
John McDonnell04/11/1997Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
Eric Clarke04/11/1997MidlothianLabourSigned
David Chaytor05/11/1997Bury NorthLabourSigned
Nick Ainger06/11/1997Carmarthen West & South PembrokeshireLabourSigned
Bob Blizzard06/11/1997WaveneyLabourSigned
Michael Colvin06/11/1997RomseyConservativeSigned
Jim Marshall06/11/1997Leicester SouthLabourSigned
Nigel Jones06/11/1997CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Terry Rooney06/11/1997Bradford NorthLabourSigned
Mike Hancock07/11/1997Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Ivan Lewis10/11/1997Bury SouthLabourSigned
George Galloway12/11/1997Glasgow, KelvinLabourSigned
Norman Baker12/11/1997LewesLiberal DemocratSigned
Bill Etherington17/11/1997Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Bob Russell19/11/1997ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Roseanna Cunningham20/11/1997PerthScottish National PartySigned
Jim Fitzpatrick24/11/1997Poplar & Canning TownLabourSigned
John Gunnell26/11/1997Morley & RothwellLabourSigned
Harold Best02/12/1997Leeds North WestLabourSigned
Tony Benn03/12/1997ChesterfieldLabourSigned

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