Conduct Of Labour Honourable Members(post Office Card Accounts)(no1)

EDM number 1401 in 2002-03, proposed by David Willetts on 11/06/2003.

That this House deplores the fact that the Labour honourable members for Hackney North and Stoke Newington; Falmouth & Camborne; Erith & Thamesmead; West Bromwich; West Ham; Rother Valley; Leeds West; Aberdeen South; Bootle; Kingswood; Leeds North West; Sheffield Attercliffe; Waveney; Birmingham Northfield; Cambridge; Blyth Valley; Wimbledon; Gower; Morley & Rothwell; Barnsley West & Penistone; Peterborough; Cynon Valley; Putney; Islington North; Tooting; Dagenham; Keighley; Coventry South; Workington; Crosby; Linlithgow; Bristol West; Caerphilly; Llanelli; Lancaster & Wyre; Burton; Gloucester; Cunninghame South; Stroud; Monmouth; Liverpool Riverside; Sunderland North; Newcastle-under-Lyme; Birkenhead; Newport West; Stevenage; Aberavon; Ilford South; Bridgend; Midlothian; Merthyr Tydfil & Rhymney; Newcastle Upon Tyne North; Jarrow; Wirral West; Knowsley North & Sefton East; Doncaster North; Blackpool North and Fleetwood; Barnsley Central; Ogmore; Tamworth; Stafford; Liverpool Walton; Rugby & Kenilworth; South Dorset; Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland; Edinburgh North & Leith; Brighton Pavilion; Manchester Central; Wrexham; Dundee East; Western Isles; Birmingham Perry Barr; Amber Valley; Blackpool South; Medway; Glasgow Shettleston; Calder Valley; Hayes & Harlington; Glasgow Maryhill; Kingston upon Hull North; and Blaydon voted against the motion in the name of the Leader of the Opposition on Post Office Card Accounts on 11th June, despite having supported the same motion when it was tabled by the Honourable Member for Ochil as Early Day Motion 572; notes that had those Honourable Members voted for the motion then it would have been carried; calls on them to explain why they voted against a motion designed to protect the interests of vunerable pensioners and benefit recipients and to save Post Offices; and condemns the Government for its dismissal of a motion which, as an Early Day Motion, secured the support of a clear majority of Honourable Members of the House.

This motion has been signed by a total of 46 MPs.