Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Adam Price (Plaid Cymru), on Thursday, 25 January 2007, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 5 members in total.

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LAKSHMI MITTAL AND THE LABOUR PARTY

That this House notes the ??2 million donation by Lakshmi Mittal to the British Labour Party; deplores the deaths of 52 miners last year in Mittal-owned coal mines due to poor safety conditions condemned by trade unionists and public officials; denounces Mittal's decision to reopen an iron-ore mine at Omarska in northern Bosnia on the site of a former concentration camp in which hundreds of Croats and Bosnians were murdered; congratulates the government of Liberia on forcing Mittal to renegotiate a 25-year iron-ore concession widely regarded as unfair and exploitative; and calls on the Labour Party, in honour of miners who lost their lives and their health while working underground in the UK coal industry, to donate the money received from Mr Mittal to the families of the bereaved in Kazakhstan and the Ukraine as a gesture of solidarity with working people everywhere exploited by global industrial tycoons.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

747 

Session

2006-07

Other sponsors

Elfyn Llwyd

Hywel Williams

Alan Simpson

Evan Harris

Subjects

Mining Labour Mittal, Lakshmi

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk