Right To Lobby Parliament (EDM582)

Right To Lobby Parliament

EDM number 582 in 2000-01, proposed by Austin Mitchell on 10/04/2001.

That this House is concerned at the treatment by Ashfield District Council of Richard Buckwell, a housing officer and elected UNISON branch secretary, threatened with disciplinary action by his employer for attending the Defend Council Housing lobby of Parliament in January 2001 to lobby his own and other honourable Members against the sale of council housing; warns that such a restriction of individual rights to lobby Parliament is both dangerous and undesirable; and affirms the major principle that employees who are also elected union officers or members should neither be disciplined for, nor deterred from, supporting and advocating the policy of their union even when this differs from the policy of the council, as UNISON's does on the sale of council housing.

This motion has been signed by a total of 40 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Austin Mitchell	10/04/2001	Great Grimsby	Labour	Proposed
Alan Simpson	10/04/2001	Nottingham South	Labour	Signed
John Cryer	23/04/2001	Hornchurch	Labour	Signed
Lawrence Cunliffe	23/04/2001	Leigh	Labour	Signed
Norman Godman	23/04/2001	Greenock & Inverclyde	Labour	Signed
Rudi Vis	23/04/2001	Finchley & Golders Green	Labour	Signed
Alice Mahon	23/04/2001	Halifax	Labour	Signed
Eric Clarke	24/04/2001	Midlothian	Labour	Signed
Derek Wyatt	24/04/2001	Sittingbourne & Sheppey	Labour	Signed
David Taylor	24/04/2001	North West Leicestershire	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Joe Ashton	24/04/2001	Bassetlaw	Labour	Signed
John Cummings	24/04/2001	Easington	Labour	Signed
Michael Clapham	24/04/2001	Barnsley West & Penistone	Labour	Signed
Lynne Jones	24/04/2001	Birmingham, Selly Oak	Labour	Signed
Bob Russell	24/04/2001	Colchester	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Robert Wareing	25/04/2001	Liverpool, West Derby	Labour	Signed
Joan Walley	25/04/2001	Stoke-on-Trent North	Labour	Signed
Harold Best	25/04/2001	Leeds North West	Labour	Signed
Ian Davidson	25/04/2001	Glasgow, Pollok	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Martin Caton	25/04/2001	Gower	Labour	Signed
Bill Michie	25/04/2001	Sheffield, Heeley	Labour	Signed
Kelvin Hopkins	25/04/2001	Luton North	Labour	Signed
Dennis Skinner	25/04/2001	Bolsover	Labour	Signed
Michael Connarty	25/04/2001	Falkirk East	Labour	Signed
Lindsay Hoyle	26/04/2001	Chorley	Labour	Signed
Terry Lewis	26/04/2001	Worsley	Labour	Signed
Elfyn Llwyd	26/04/2001	Meirionnydd Nant Conwy	Plaid Cymru	Signed
David Borrow	26/04/2001	South Ribble	Labour	Signed
Andrew Stunell	26/04/2001	Hazel Grove	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Frank Cook	27/04/2001	Stockton North	Labour	Signed
Mike Hancock	30/04/2001	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Russell Brown	01/05/2001	Dumfries	Labour	Signed
Ann Cryer	01/05/2001	Keighley	Labour	Signed
Neil Turner	01/05/2001	Wigan	Labour	Signed
John Gunnell	02/05/2001	Morley & Rothwell	Labour	Signed
Janet Dean	03/05/2001	Burton	Labour	Signed
David Drew	03/05/2001	Stroud	Labour Co-operative	Signed
John Austin	03/05/2001	Erith & Thamesmead	Labour	Signed
Kevin McNamara	09/05/2001	Kingston upon Hull North	Labour	Signed
Bill Etherington	10/05/2001	Sunderland North	Labour	Signed

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