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Future Of Restaurant And Curry Industries

EDM number 1356 in 2007-08, proposed by George Galloway on 21/04/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Asia, Employment, Food, Immigration and Service industries.

That this House notes the enormous economic contribution made by immigrants into Britain through the restaurant trade and other industries; notes that many restaurants are having great difficulty finding staff owing to visa restrictions on the entry of workers from outside the European Union, while at the same time significant numbers of such workers are already in the UK but whose temporary work permits have expired; and therefore believes that enabling these workers to work legally through an extension of their permits makes economic sense and would avoid them having to return to countries outside the EU in order to apply for their permits from there, where there is the very real possibility these permits would be refused.

This motion has been signed by a total of 32 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
George Galloway21/04/2008Bethnal Green and BowRespectProposed
Keith Vaz21/04/2008Leicester EastLabourSeconded
Mike Hancock21/04/2008Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSeconded
Peter Bottomley21/04/2008Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
John Hemming21/04/2008Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSeconded
John McDonnell21/04/2008Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSeconded
Robert Key22/04/2008SalisburyConservativeSigned
Annette Brooke22/04/2008Mid Dorset and North PooleLiberal DemocratSigned
Harry Cohen22/04/2008Leyton and WansteadLabourSigned
Ian Gibson22/04/2008Norwich NorthLabourSigned
Robert Wareing22/04/2008Liverpool, West DerbyIndependentSigned
Angus MacNeil22/04/2008Na h-Eileanan an IarScottish National PartySigned
Phil Willis23/04/2008Harrogate and KnaresboroughLiberal DemocratSigned
Stephen Williams23/04/2008Bristol WestLiberal DemocratSigned
John Leech23/04/2008Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
John Battle23/04/2008Leeds WestLabourSigned
Ronnie Campbell23/04/2008Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Marsha Singh23/04/2008Bradford WestLabourSigned
Rudi Vis23/04/2008Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
David Hamilton24/04/2008MidlothianLabourSigned
Jennifer Willott24/04/2008Cardiff CentralLiberal DemocratSigned
Jim Devine25/04/2008LivingstonLabourSigned
Vincent Cable28/04/2008TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Virendra Sharma28/04/2008Ealing, SouthallLabourSigned
Dai Davies28/04/2008Blaenau GwentIndependentSigned
Martin Horwood28/04/2008CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Katy Clark28/04/2008North Ayrshire and ArranLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn28/04/2008Islington NorthLabourSigned
Alasdair McDonnell28/04/2008Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Bill Etherington01/05/2008Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Bruce George02/06/2008Walsall SouthLabourSigned
Jim Dobbin24/06/2008Heywood and MiddletonLabourSigned

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