Transfer Of UK Rail Jobs To India (EDM1585)

Transfer Of UK Rail Jobs To India

EDM number 1585 in 2010-12, proposed by Ian Mearns on 14/03/2011.
Categorised under the topics of Asia, Employment and Railways.

That this House is deeply concerned at the decision of the state-owned East Coast Mainline to award its customer call centre contract, currently based in Newcastle, to Intelnet Global Services and ATOS Origin, who have operations in Plymouth, Wolverhampton and Mumbai, India; is appalled that this loss of jobs, which is yet another blow to the economy and communities of the North East of England, will also see jobs exported overseas to India; believes it is completely unacceptable for a government company to transfer work abroad and calls on the Secretary of State for Transport to intervene to prevent this; further believes that this episode once again demonstrates the failure of fragmentation and sub-contracting in the rail industry; and calls for an urgent industry-wide assessment of the benefits to the passenger, taxpayer and economy of bringing all railway services in-house.

This motion has been signed by a total of 30 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Ian Mearns	14/03/2011	Gateshead	Labour	Proposed
John McDonnell	14/03/2011	Hayes and Harlington	Labour	Seconded
Grahame Morris	14/03/2011	Easington	Labour	Seconded
Mike Hancock	14/03/2011	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Alan Meale	14/03/2011	Mansfield	Labour	Seconded
Kelvin Hopkins	15/03/2011	Luton North	Labour	Seconded
Dennis Skinner	15/03/2011	Bolsover	Labour	Signed
Ronnie Campbell	15/03/2011	Blyth Valley	Labour	Signed
Martin Caton	15/03/2011	Gower	Labour	Signed
John Leech	15/03/2011	Manchester, Withington	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Linda Riordan	15/03/2011	Halifax	Labour	Signed
William McCrea	16/03/2011	South Antrim	DUP	Signed
Jim Dobbin	16/03/2011	Heywood and Middleton	Labour	Signed
Tom Blenkinsop	16/03/2011	Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland	Labour	Signed
Tony Lloyd	21/03/2011	Manchester Central	Labour	Signed
John Pugh	21/03/2011	Southport	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Hemming	22/03/2011	Birmingham, Yardley	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Jim McGovern	22/03/2011	Dundee West	Labour	Signed
Sandra Osborne	29/03/2011	Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock	Labour	Signed
Roger Godsiff	29/03/2011	Birmingham, Hall Green	Labour	Signed
David Crausby	30/03/2011	Bolton North East	Labour	Signed
Kevan Jones	04/05/2011	North Durham	Labour	Signed
Stuart Bell	04/05/2011	Middlesbrough	Labour	Signed
Roberta Blackman-Woods	09/05/2011	City of Durham	Labour	Signed
Catherine McKinnell	09/05/2011	Newcastle upon Tyne North	Labour	Signed
Stephen Hepburn	13/05/2011	Jarrow	Labour	Signed
Jenny Chapman	13/05/2011	Darlington	Labour	Signed
Mary Glindon	24/05/2011	North Tyneside	Labour	Signed
Tony Cunningham	07/06/2011	Workington	Labour	Signed
Alex Cunningham	07/06/2011	Stockton North	Labour	Signed

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