Birds Eye Closure In Grimsby (EDM304)

Birds Eye Closure In Grimsby

EDM number 304 in 2004-05, proposed by Austin Mitchell on 06/12/2004.

That this House is concerned at the proposal by Birds Eye (Unilever Frozen Foods) to close its Grimsby factory which has operated productively and profitably for 50 years, putting 620 people out of work and rewarding their longstanding partnership with the company with P45s; believes that, rather than rushing to close to maintain an excessively high rate of return in the face of competitive markets, Unilever, as a good corporate citizen of Grimsby with a very good record as an employer and investor in the training of its workforce, and a producer of top of the range product, should fight back by investing, re-equipping, innovating and developing new opportunities and new products in collaboration with its workforce, rather than surrendering to future fears and rewarding their loyal co-operation with redundancy; further believes that any firm which does not compete to serve the consumer in new ways with new products and competitive, efficient production relegates itself to a long term decline and a return on capital doomed to fall remorselessly; and calls on the parent Unilever Group to intervene to stop a closure which shames the name of the firm.

This motion has been signed by a total of 42 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Austin Mitchell	06/12/2004	Great Grimsby	Labour	Proposed
Stephen Pound	07/12/2004	Ealing North	Labour	Signed
Tony Lloyd	07/12/2004	Manchester Central	Labour	Signed
Rob Marris	07/12/2004	Wolverhampton South West	Labour	Signed
Alan Meale	07/12/2004	Mansfield	Labour	Signed
Martin Caton	07/12/2004	Gower	Labour	Signed
Jeremy Corbyn	07/12/2004	Islington North	Labour	Signed
Ann Cryer	08/12/2004	Keighley	Labour	Signed
Harry Barnes	08/12/2004	North East Derbyshire	Labour	Signed
Mike Hancock	08/12/2004	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Andrew George	08/12/2004	St Ives	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Albert Owen	08/12/2004	Ynys M	Labour	Signed
Bill Olner	08/12/2004	Nuneaton	Labour	Signed
Stephen Hepburn	08/12/2004	Jarrow	Labour	Signed
Clive Soley	08/12/2004	Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush	Labour	Signed
Marsha Singh	08/12/2004	Bradford West	Labour	Signed
Kevin McNamara	09/12/2004	Kingston upon Hull North	Labour	Signed
David Drew	09/12/2004	Stroud	Labour Co-operative	Signed
John Grogan	09/12/2004	Selby	Labour	Signed
Mark Todd	09/12/2004	South Derbyshire	Labour	Signed
Bill Tynan	09/12/2004	Hamilton South	Labour	Signed
Alan Simpson	13/12/2004	Nottingham South	Labour	Signed
Rudi Vis	13/12/2004	Finchley & Golders Green	Labour	Signed
Roger Godsiff	13/12/2004	Birmingham, Sparkbrook & Small Heath	Labour	Signed
Janet Dean	13/12/2004	Burton	Labour	Signed
David Burnside	13/12/2004	South Antrim	UUP	Signed
Lynne Jones	13/12/2004	Birmingham, Selly Oak	Labour	Signed
Kelvin Hopkins	13/12/2004	Luton North	Labour	Signed
Jim Cunningham	13/12/2004	Coventry South	Labour	Signed
Tony Colman	14/12/2004	Putney	Labour	Signed
Michael Clapham	15/12/2004	Barnsley West & Penistone	Labour	Signed
Ronnie Campbell	15/12/2004	Blyth Valley	Labour	Signed
Terry Lewis	15/12/2004	Worsley	Labour	Signed
Nigel Jones	15/12/2004	Cheltenham	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Ernie Ross	16/12/2004	Dundee West	Labour	Signed
Doug Henderson	16/12/2004	Newcastle upon Tyne North	Labour	Signed
Eric Illsley	16/12/2004	Barnsley Central	Labour	Signed
Frank Doran	16/12/2004	Aberdeen Central	Labour	Signed
John Robertson	11/01/2005	Glasgow, Anniesland	Labour	Signed
Shona McIsaac	18/01/2005	Cleethorpes	Labour	Signed
Bill Etherington	18/01/2005	Sunderland North	Labour	Signed
Michael Meacher	19/01/2005	Oldham West & Royton	Labour	Signed

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