Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Pat Glass (Labour), on Thursday, 27 January 2011, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 19 members in total.

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SALT RESERVES

That this House considers the Department for Transport's actions in managing and prioritising salt supplies by stealth whilst insisting that there is no crisis, denying that it is putting pressure on salt mines and suppliers to withhold supplies properly negotiated and ordered by some local authorities, whilst prioritising orders from other local authorities, to be disingenuous; and calls on the Department for Transport to publish immediately open and transparent details of the meetings of SALTCELL, which it considers to have been re-named to avoid questions from hon. Members on these issues, along with details of the local authorities prioritised, and the tonnage supplied to such authorities and to take immediate steps to prioritise salt supplies to local authorities such as Durham County Council which, having learnt lessons from the previous winter, increased its salt reserves, properly ordered appropriate levels of salt in advance, increased storage facilities, increased winter maintenance vehicles and equipment, sourced salt globally, and which still finds itself crucially short of salt due to the actions of the Department for Transport.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

1358 

Session

2010-12

Other sponsors

Lord Beamish

Roberta Blackman-Woods

Helen Goodman

Lord Wilson of Sedgefield

Grahame Morris

Subjects

Food Roads

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk