Postal Services Bill [lords] (EDM1078)

Postal Services Bill [lords]

EDM number 1078 in 2008-09, proposed by John Thurso on 12/03/2009.
Categorised under the topic of Postal services.

That this House notes the introduction of the Postal Services Bill in the House of Lords; notes that it fails to offer the investment needed to modernise the Post Office network and to enable it to develop new services, fails to facilitate the creation of a Postbank to offer banking services to all, fails to give the Royal Mail the ability to borrow on capital markets, fails to provide the enabling powers to widen the remit of the Post Office and Royal Mail to enable them to compete in new markets, fails to facilitate the creation of any form of employee shared ownership scheme or staff council for Royal Mail and fails to give customers a proper voice to hold the activities of Royal Mail and Post Office Limited to account; believes that the Bill will not therefore secure a sustainable and competitive future for either the Royal Mail or the Post Office network; and calls on the Government to incorporate all these features within the Bill and in addition to ensure that there is a universal service obligation in place on a statutory basis six days a week throughout the UK and to ensure that the Post Office network is ring-fenced as a discrete, publicly-owned network.

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

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
John Thurso	12/03/2009	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross	Liberal Democrat	Proposed
Vincent Cable	12/03/2009	Twickenham	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Lorely Burt	12/03/2009	Solihull	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Danny Alexander	12/03/2009	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
David Heath	12/03/2009	Somerton & Frome	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Paul Burstow	12/03/2009	Sutton and Cheam	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Colin Breed	13/03/2009	South East Cornwall	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Robert Wareing	13/03/2009	Liverpool, West Derby	Independent	Signed
Jeremy Browne	13/03/2009	Taunton	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Don Foster	16/03/2009	Bath	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Mark Hunter	16/03/2009	Cheadle	Liberal Democrat	Signed
David Howarth	16/03/2009	Cambridge	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Phil Willis	16/03/2009	Harrogate and Knaresborough	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Bob Spink	16/03/2009	Castle Point	Independent	Signed
Robert Smith	16/03/2009	West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Christopher Huhne	17/03/2009	Eastleigh	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Alistair Carmichael	17/03/2009	Orkney and Shetland	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Norman Baker	17/03/2009	Lewes	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Leech	17/03/2009	Manchester, Withington	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Paul Rowen	18/03/2009	Rochdale	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Stephen Williams	18/03/2009	Bristol West	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Menzies Campbell	18/03/2009	North East Fife	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Paul Holmes	18/03/2009	Chesterfield	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Alan Simpson	18/03/2009	Nottingham South	Labour	Signed
Charles Kennedy	18/03/2009	Ross, Skye and Lochaber	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Elfyn Llwyd	19/03/2009	Meirionnydd Nant Conwy	Plaid Cymru	Signed
Lembit	19/03/2009	Montgomeryshire	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Annette Brooke	19/03/2009	Mid Dorset and North Poole	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Roger Williams	19/03/2009	Brecon and Radnorshire	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Lynne Featherstone	19/03/2009	Hornsey and Wood Green	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Greg Mulholland	20/03/2009	Leeds North West	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Julia Goldsworthy	20/03/2009	Falmouth and Camborne	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Andrew Stunell	20/03/2009	Hazel Grove	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Mike Hancock	20/03/2009	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Alan Reid	20/03/2009	Argyll and Bute	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Alan Beith	23/03/2009	Berwick-upon-Tweed	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Mason	23/03/2009	Glasgow East	Scottish National Party	Signed
Michael Moore	25/03/2009	Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Nick Harvey	26/03/2009	North Devon	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Jo Swinson	30/03/2009	East Dunbartonshire	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Tom Brake	31/03/2009	Carshalton and Wallington	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Mark Williams	02/04/2009	Ceredigion	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Willie Rennie	20/04/2009	Dunfermline and West Fife	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Jim McGovern	23/04/2009	Dundee West	Labour	Signed
Jennifer Willott	27/04/2009	Cardiff Central	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Andrew Pelling	19/05/2009	Croydon Central	Independent	Signed
Edward Davey	30/06/2009	Kingston and Surbiton	Liberal Democrat	Signed

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