Post Office Consultation Process (EDM725)

Post Office Consultation Process

EDM number 725 in 2003-04, proposed by Patsy Calton on 01/03/2004.

That this House calls on the Department for Trade and Industry to halt forthwith the Network Reinvention Programme of post office closures while an investigation is carried out into flaws in the notification, consultation and decision-making process, which led to inaccurate information being presented to the public and to consultees, including honourable Members and at least one metropolitan borough council, and which have led furthermore to a decision to close a post office being made on the same day that honourable Members and a council were notified in writing by Post Office Limited's Head of the North West that more time was being taken to review that closure, and which have led to the designation of a rural post office as urban without reference to clear criteria including those in the Performance and Innovation Unit report of 2000; notes that Royal Mail now recognise inadequacies in the process and that subsequent closure consultations will be modified but that current consultations will not be changed; regrets the failure of the Post Office and Postwatch to use clear and unambiguous language in their replies to honourable and Right honourable Members; and further regrets the failure of Post Office Limited to transmit a clear, strategic, coherent vision of the future of the Post Office at the heart of local communities.

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

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Patsy Calton	01/03/2004	Cheadle	Liberal Democrat	Proposed
Andrew Stunell	01/03/2004	Hazel Grove	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Syd Rapson	02/03/2004	Portsmouth North	Labour	Signed
Iris Robinson	02/03/2004	Strangford	DUP	Signed
Paul Holmes	02/03/2004	Chesterfield	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Annabelle Ewing	02/03/2004	Perth	Scottish National Party	Signed
Andrew George	02/03/2004	St Ives	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Harry Barnes	02/03/2004	North East Derbyshire	Labour	Signed
Michael Weir	02/03/2004	Angus	Scottish National Party	Signed
Lady Hermon	03/03/2004	North Down	UUP	Signed
Simon Thomas	03/03/2004	Ceredigion	Plaid Cymru	Signed
Ronnie Campbell	03/03/2004	Blyth Valley	Labour	Signed
Colin Breed	03/03/2004	South East Cornwall	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Pugh	04/03/2004	Southport	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Paul Tyler	04/03/2004	North Cornwall	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Roy Beggs	04/03/2004	East Antrim	UUP	Signed
Huw Edwards	04/03/2004	Monmouth	Labour	Signed
Nigel Dodds	04/03/2004	Belfast North	DUP	Signed
Paul Marsden	04/03/2004	Shrewsbury & Atcham	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Nigel Jones	04/03/2004	Cheltenham	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Eric Illsley	04/03/2004	Barnsley Central	Labour	Signed
Simon Hughes	04/03/2004	North Southwark & Bermondsey	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Alan Simpson	04/03/2004	Nottingham South	Labour	Signed
Nick Harvey	08/03/2004	North Devon	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Betty Williams	08/03/2004	Conwy	Labour	Signed
Rudi Vis	08/03/2004	Finchley & Golders Green	Labour	Signed
Sue Doughty	08/03/2004	Guildford	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Mike Hancock	08/03/2004	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Signed
David Hinchliffe	09/03/2004	Wakefield	Labour	Signed
Jenny Tonge	09/03/2004	Richmond Park	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Elfyn Llwyd	10/03/2004	Meirionnydd Nant Conwy	Plaid Cymru	Signed
Annette Brooke	10/03/2004	Mid Dorset & North Poole	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Vincent Cable	10/03/2004	Twickenham	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Barrett	12/03/2004	Edinburgh West	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Dai Havard	12/03/2004	Merthyr Tydfil & Rhymney	Labour	Signed
Martin Salter	12/03/2004	Reading West	Labour	Signed
Alan Reid	12/03/2004	Argyll & Bute	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Brian Cotter	15/03/2004	Weston-Super-Mare	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Matthew Taylor	15/03/2004	Truro & St Austell	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Joan Ruddock	16/03/2004	Lewisham, Deptford	Labour	Signed
Rob Marris	16/03/2004	Wolverhampton South West	Labour	Signed
Tom Brake	16/03/2004	Carshalton & Wallington	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Jon Trickett	24/03/2004	Hemsworth	Labour	Signed
Bill Etherington	26/03/2004	Sunderland North	Labour	Signed
Hywel Williams	19/04/2004	Caernarfon	Plaid Cymru	Signed
George Mudie	28/04/2004	Leeds East	Labour	Signed

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