Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Brian Jenkins (Labour), on Tuesday, 22 November 2005, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 294 members in total.

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SUNDAY TRADING HOURS

That this House cherishes the importance of Sundays as a collective day of rest and worship and as a day for families to spend together; believes that deregulation of Sunday trading would have a detrimental impact on Britain's 2.7 million shopworkers, on the police, security, banking, distribution, transport, health and catering staff who also have to work when shops are open, on the children and families of all these staff and on the communities around large stores which already suffer congestion and noise for six and a half days a week; welcomes the NOP poll that shows that 62 per cent. of the public do not want any extension of the current six hours of Sunday opening by large stores; agrees with the public that 150 hours per week is enough for anyone to do their shopping; and believes that any extension of Sunday trading hours of large stores would have a serious impact on neighbourhood and community stores and would lead to job losses in this sector and a deterioration in local services.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

1085 

Session

2005-06

Other sponsors

Edward Leigh

Simon Burns

Janet Dean

Charlotte Atkins

Lord Beith

Subjects

Regulation Sunday trading

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk