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Dial A Mobile And Airtime Providers

EDM number 2119 in 2006-07, proposed by Roger Godsiff on 15/10/2007.

That this House views with the gravest concern the behaviour of airtime providers in seeking to enforce, in full, the terms of contracts taken out by customers following the collapse of Dial a Mobile trading as Mobile Connections; notes the increasing reports of the listing of former customers as debtors and subsequent pursuit through debt collection agencies leading to negative credit references; further notes the complete absence of any regulatory protection for customers, which continues to allow airtime providers to be complicit in the sale of expensive contracts through third parties offering cash back deals yet still to demand full payment in the event of administration; and calls on the Secretary of State as a matter of urgency to call a meeting of Ofcom, the industry regulator and the airtime companies to negotiate early release for customers who are being pursued in this manner and suffering genuine financial hardship.

This motion has been signed by a total of 13 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Roger Godsiff15/10/2007Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small HeathLabourProposed
Peter Bottomley16/10/2007Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Martin Caton17/10/2007GowerLabourSeconded
Gregory Campbell17/10/2007East LondonderryDUPSeconded
John Austin17/10/2007Erith and ThamesmeadLabourSeconded
Mike Hancock17/10/2007Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSeconded
Lynne Jones17/10/2007Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
John Hemming18/10/2007Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Jabez Foster24/10/2007Hastings and RyeLabourSigned
Rudi Vis24/10/2007Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Alan Simpson25/10/2007Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Eric Illsley29/10/2007Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Ann Cryer29/10/2007KeighleyLabourSigned

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