Business To Business Scams (EDM1617)

Business To Business Scams

EDM number 1617 in 2003-04, proposed by Brian Cotter on 08/09/2004.

That this House notes with concern the growing number of scams operated by rogue traders, including recent bogus data protection scams that have generated in excess of 35,000 complaints to the Office of Fair Trading in the last year alone; acknowledges that such scams cost both consumers and businesses millions of pounds a year; further recognises that many of these scams directly target small businesses in order to misleadingly extort money for goods and services that have not been requested; expresses concern that the Office of Fair Trading lacks the power to intervene and stop business to business scams in the same way that it is able to address consumer disputes; believes that small businesses should be afforded the same protection as consumers under the law; and therefore proposes that Stop Now orders should be extended so that the actions available to enforcement agencies to stop business scams mirror those that are currently available in consumer disputes.

This motion has been signed by a total of 38 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Brian Cotter	08/09/2004	Weston-Super-Mare	Liberal Democrat	Proposed
Lynne Jones	09/09/2004	Birmingham, Selly Oak	Labour	Signed
Annette Brooke	09/09/2004	Mid Dorset & North Poole	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Andrew George	09/09/2004	St Ives	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Harry Barnes	09/09/2004	North East Derbyshire	Labour	Signed
Paul Tyler	09/09/2004	North Cornwall	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Rudi Vis	09/09/2004	Finchley & Golders Green	Labour	Signed
Betty Williams	13/09/2004	Conwy	Labour	Signed
Peter Bottomley	13/09/2004	Worthing West	Conservative	Signed
Harold Best	13/09/2004	Leeds North West	Labour	Signed
Sue Doughty	13/09/2004	Guildford	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Ann Cryer	13/09/2004	Keighley	Labour	Signed
Paul Holmes	14/09/2004	Chesterfield	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Lindsay Hoyle	14/09/2004	Chorley	Labour	Signed
Nigel Jones	14/09/2004	Cheltenham	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Chris Bryant	14/09/2004	Rhondda	Labour	Signed
Mike Hancock	14/09/2004	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Andrew Stunell	14/09/2004	Hazel Grove	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Brian White	14/09/2004	North East Milton Keynes	Labour	Signed
Paul Keetch	15/09/2004	Hereford	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Roger Williams	15/09/2004	Brecon & Radnorshire	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Paul Flynn	15/09/2004	Newport West	Labour	Signed
Bill Etherington	15/09/2004	Sunderland North	Labour	Signed
Tom Brake	15/09/2004	Carshalton & Wallington	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Julie Morgan	16/09/2004	Cardiff North	Labour	Signed
Brian Jenkins	16/09/2004	Tamworth	Labour	Signed
Gordon Marsden	16/09/2004	Blackpool South	Labour	Signed
Eric Martlew	16/09/2004	Carlisle	Labour	Signed
John McDonnell	16/09/2004	Hayes & Harlington	Labour	Signed
Alan Simpson	11/10/2004	Nottingham South	Labour	Signed
Paul Marsden	11/10/2004	Shrewsbury & Atcham	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Vincent Cable	11/10/2004	Twickenham	Liberal Democrat	Signed
David Drew	11/10/2004	Stroud	Labour Co-operative	Signed
David Taylor	12/10/2004	North West Leicestershire	Labour Co-operative	Signed
John Pugh	14/10/2004	Southport	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Jeremy Corbyn	14/10/2004	Islington North	Labour	Signed
David Hamilton	19/10/2004	Midlothian	Labour	Signed
Diane Abbott	21/10/2004	Hackney North & Stoke Newington	Labour	Signed

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