Local Skills Legacy And The London 2012 Olympic Games (EDM2234)

Local Skills Legacy And The London 2012 Olympic Games

EDM number 2234 in 2005-06, proposed by Don Foster on 23/05/2006.

That this House acknowledges and supports the pledge made by the London 2012 team when bidding to host the Olympics that staging the Games in the Lea Valley will `stimulate a vital economic regeneration programme in London's poorest and most disadvantaged area', and that `the biggest economic legacy of the Games will be the creation of wider employment opportunities and improvements in the education, skills and knowledge of the local labour force in an area of very high unemployment'; notes with interest the concerns raised by the London Chamber of Commerce's recent report, Meeting the Olympic Skills Challenge, that this legacy may prove elusive if companies bidding for Olympic contracts are not encouraged to train and employ workers from the local communities in Newham, Tower Hamlets, Greenwich, Waltham Forest and Hackney; and urges the Government and the Greater London Authority to take action to address the problems of low skills and social exclusion in the five Olympic boroughs.

This motion has been signed by a total of 37 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Don Foster	23/05/2006	Bath	Liberal Democrat	Proposed
Vincent Cable	23/05/2006	Twickenham	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Paul Holmes	23/05/2006	Chesterfield	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Lembit	23/05/2006	Montgomeryshire	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Tom Brake	23/05/2006	Carshalton and Wallington	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Steve Webb	23/05/2006	Northavon	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Bob Russell	23/05/2006	Colchester	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Bob Spink	23/05/2006	Castle Point	Conservative	Signed
Andrew George	23/05/2006	St Ives	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Colin Breed	24/05/2006	South East Cornwall	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Stephen Williams	24/05/2006	Bristol West	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Rudi Vis	24/05/2006	Finchley and Golders Green	Labour	Signed
Peter Bottomley	24/05/2006	Worthing West	Conservative	Signed
Mike Hancock	24/05/2006	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Andrew Dismore	24/05/2006	Hendon	Labour	Signed
Ann Cryer	24/05/2006	Keighley	Labour	Signed
Gregory Campbell	24/05/2006	East Londonderry	DUP	Signed
John McDonnell	24/05/2006	Hayes and Harlington	Labour	Signed
John Pugh	25/05/2006	Southport	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Nigel Dodds	25/05/2006	Belfast North	DUP	Signed
Annette Brooke	25/05/2006	Mid Dorset and North Poole	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Adrian Sanders	05/06/2006	Torbay	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Brian Jenkins	05/06/2006	Tamworth	Labour	Signed
George Galloway	05/06/2006	Bethnal Green and Bow	Respect	Signed
Roger Williams	05/06/2006	Brecon and Radnorshire	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Sammy Wilson	05/06/2006	East Antrim	DUP	Signed
Richard Younger-Ross	05/06/2006	Teignbridge	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Mark Hunter	06/06/2006	Cheadle	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Leech	07/06/2006	Manchester, Withington	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Alan Simpson	08/06/2006	Nottingham South	Labour	Signed
Susan Kramer	08/06/2006	Richmond Park	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Edward Davey	12/06/2006	Kingston and Surbiton	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Harry Cohen	19/06/2006	Leyton and Wanstead	Labour	Signed
Andrew Stunell	19/06/2006	Hazel Grove	Liberal Democrat	Signed
David Simpson	20/06/2006	Upper Bann	DUP	Signed
John Hemming	22/06/2006	Birmingham, Yardley	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Jo Swinson	25/07/2006	East Dunbartonshire	Liberal Democrat	Signed

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