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Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Baroness Armstrong of Hill Top (Labour), on Thursday, 16 May 1996, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 46 members in total.

CONDUCT OF THE HONOURABLE MEMBER FOR DOVER AND WESTMINSTER CITY COUNCIL (No. 2)

That this House notes with serious concern the attempts made by the honourable Member for Dover to distract attention from the contents of the District Auditor's Report on Westminster City Council by using parliamentary privilege to make untrue allegations to discredit the objectors' professional and personal conduct; further notes that the honourable Member has failed to repeat the same allegations outside the House; affirms that all the allegations made against the objectors are untrue and scurrilous, and that these allegations had already been accepted as untrue yet the honourable Member forDover knowingly repeated them; and congratulates the 12 obj ectors whose conscientiousness and hard work has culminated in the District Auditor's findings that Dame Shirley Porter and others were 'guilty of wilful misconduct'.

Amendments

The Early day motion has received an amendment.

CONDUCT OF THE HONOURABLE MEMBER FOR DOVER AND WESTMINSTER CITY COUNCIL (No. 2) (903A1)
The Early day motion has received an amendment sponsored by Robert G Hughes (primary, Conservative) and tabled on Monday, 20 May 1996. It has been signed by 2 members in total.
leave out from `House' to end and add `congratulates the honourable Member for describing to the House the process by which Westminster Labour Councillor Peter Bradley acted as a consultant as a consultant on a property development which enabled Camden Labour Group to seek electoral advantage through rejecting a 700 job creating industrial development opportunity, despite the existence locally of some 15,000 unemployed people, in favour of building 202 social houses near to a railway line; condemns the hypocritical attitude of Councillor Bradley; notes that there are many Labour areas where jobs have been priced out and built out for Labour's electoral advantage despite causing enormous poverty and deprevation as well as costing the taxpayer many millions of pounds in social security benefits and other costs; calls on the National Audit Office and the District Auditor to investigate such callous and indifferent behavour towards poeple as well as its financial cost; notes that the Labour Party is fearful of addressing such issues; and further notes that the vast majority of Westminster residents have consistently rejected the political beliefs of the Labour activist objectors.'.

Secondary information

Type
Early day motion
Reference
903 
903A1 
Session
1995-96
Subjects
Westminster City Council Shaw, David
Link
View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk