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Trinity Mirror And Government Accountability

EDM number 150 in 2016-17, proposed by Hywel Williams on 07/06/2016.
Categorised under the topics of Employment, Press and National Assembly for Wales.

That this House deplores the announcement from Trinity Mirror that it will be scrapping eight jobs at the North Wales newspaper, the Daily Post, including its only reporter based at the National Assembly for Wales; notes that the National Assembly for Wales has responsibility for the Welsh NHS, Welsh schools and the Welsh economy and has a significant impact on the daily lives of people across the north of Wales, as well as the rest of the country; believes that effective journalism is intrinsic to democracy and is essential in challenging the powerful and holding public bodies to account; regrets that the people of North Wales will be left without a source of information as to the actions of their government; further notes the words of Thomas Jefferson, found in a letter addressed to the Welsh philosopher Richard Price in 1789, that wherever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government, that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them right; and calls on Trinity Mirror to reconsider its decision to relocate the only reporter based in the Senedd and to talk to, and work with, the National Union of Journalists before any decisions are taken.

This motion has been signed by a total of 10 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Hywel Williams07/06/2016ArfonPlaid CymruProposed
Chris Stephens08/06/2016Glasgow South WestScottish National PartySeconded
Alan Meale08/06/2016MansfieldLabourSeconded
Paul Flynn09/06/2016Newport WestLabourSeconded
Jonathan Edwards09/06/2016Carmarthen East and DinefwrPlaid CymruSeconded
Liz Saville Roberts14/06/2016Dwyfor MeirionnyddPlaid CymruSeconded
Chris Matheson27/06/2016City of ChesterLabourSigned
Alan Brown27/06/2016Kilmarnock and LoudounScottish National PartySigned
Jim Cunningham12/07/2016Coventry SouthLabourSigned
Yasmin Qureshi21/07/2016Bolton South EastLabourSigned

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