Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Jim Hood (Labour), on Tuesday, 11 February 1997, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 48 members in total.

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LAW MINING COMPANY AND BBC FRONTLINE SCOTLAND

That this House is concerned at the revelations reported by the BBC Frontline Scotland investigative team on the behaviour of a Lanarkshire Mining Company, Law Mining; notes the admission of the company's Managing Director that they employ private detectives to investigate the private lives of individuals who petition against their planning applications to develop opencast mining sites in Lanarkshire; finds such a practice to be alarming and infringing on peoples' democratic rights; notes that the Managing Director of Law Mining is a former Conservative Councillor and parliamentary candidate; and calls on Her Majesty's Government to investigate this company's conduct and report to Lord Nolan's Committee if honourable Members or other politicians are involved directly or indirectly in advising this company to behave in the manner described by the BBC Frontline programme.

Amendments

The Early day motion has received an amendment.

LAW MINING COMPANY AND BBC FRONTLINE SCOTLAND (509A1)

The Early day motion has received an amendment sponsored by Bill Walker (primary, Conservative) and tabled on Thursday, 13 March 1997. It has been signed by 2 members in total.

leave out from 'detectives' to end and add 'but notes that the only enquiries made of signatories of the petition was whether they had actually signed it and that there was no investigation of any sort into the private lives of the signatories; and further notes that although the main objection of the petition related to the disturbance caused by road haulage that only one of the 260 signatories resided on the proposed route.'.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

509 

509A1 

Session

1996-97

Subjects

Law Mining Frontline Scotland

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk