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EDM number 1508 in 2005-06, proposed by Pete Wishart on 30/01/2006.

That this House is deeply concerned about the future of the public post office service; notes the consideration by Royal Mail of shutting down or selling off more than 160 high street post offices including the Crown post offices in Scotland at Bathgate, Coatbridge, Dunfermline, Perth, Glasgow Hope Street and Dumfries; further notes that the Government has announced plans to terminate the £1 billion contract which supports the Post Office Card Account and which is used by four million pensioners every week; draws attention to the reaction of the National Federation of Sub-Postmasters who attacked this decision as an outrageous betrayal that would hit the elderly hard; further draws attention to the concerns that that these closures and changes would cause elderly and disabled people difficulty in reaching branches further away, force customers to rely on and pay for public transport to access branches and face longer queues and poorer facilities due to increased pressure on branches and a fall in standard of local delivery services; and calls on the Government to reverse these plans or to bring forward an alternative to alleviate concerns about the loss of so many post offices at the heart of so many communities.

This motion has been signed by a total of 47 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Pete Wishart30/01/2006Perth and North PerthshireScottish National PartyProposed
Michael Penning30/01/2006Hemel HempsteadConservativeSeconded
Michael Weir31/01/2006AngusScottish National PartySeconded
Robert Wareing31/01/2006Liverpool, West DerbyLabourSeconded
Elfyn Llwyd31/01/2006Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSeconded
John Leech31/01/2006Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSeconded
John McDonnell31/01/2006Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Gregory Campbell31/01/2006East LondonderryDUPSigned
John Cummings01/02/2006EasingtonLabourSigned
Angus MacNeil01/02/2006Na h-Eileanan an IarScottish National PartySigned
Rudi Vis01/02/2006Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Mark Durkan01/02/2006FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Alan Meale01/02/2006MansfieldLabourSigned
Lynne Jones01/02/2006Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Paul Holmes01/02/2006ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSigned
David Simpson01/02/2006Upper BannDUPSigned
Adam Price01/02/2006Carmarthen East and DinefwrPlaid CymruSigned
George Galloway02/02/2006Bethnal Green and BowRespectSigned
Hywel Williams02/02/2006CaernarfonPlaid CymruSigned
Iris Robinson06/02/2006StrangfordDUPSigned
Ann Cryer06/02/2006KeighleyLabourSigned
Graham Stuart06/02/2006Beverley and HoldernessConservativeSigned
Brian Jenkins07/02/2006TamworthLabourSigned
Nick Harvey07/02/2006North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Simpson07/02/2006Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Alan Reid08/02/2006Argyll and ButeLiberal DemocratSigned
William McCrea08/02/2006South AntrimDUPSigned
Jeremy Corbyn08/02/2006Islington NorthLabourSigned
Tim Farron08/02/2006Westmorland and LonsdaleLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Connarty09/02/2006Linlithgow and East FalkirkLabourSigned
John Hemming09/02/2006Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Austin Mitchell13/02/2006Great GrimsbyLabourSigned
Derek Conway13/02/2006Old Bexley & SidcupConservativeSigned
Susan Kramer13/02/2006Richmond ParkLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Rowen13/02/2006RochdaleLiberal DemocratSigned
Alasdair McDonnell14/02/2006Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Bill Etherington14/02/2006Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Mark Williams15/02/2006CeredigionLiberal DemocratSigned
Vincent Cable16/02/2006TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
David Hamilton16/02/2006MidlothianLabourSigned
Martin Horwood16/02/2006CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Roger Godsiff27/02/2006Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small HeathLabourSigned
John Austin27/02/2006Erith and ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Katy Clark27/02/2006North Ayrshire and ArranLabourSigned
Richard Younger-Ross28/02/2006TeignbridgeLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Clapham01/03/2006Barnsley West and PenistoneLabourSigned
Denis Murphy18/04/2006WansbeckLabourSigned

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