Early Day Motions

BRITISH PIG EXECUTIVE SAVE OUR BACON CAMPAIGN

EDM (Early Day Motion) 1065: tabled on 27 February 2008

Tabled in the 2007-08 session.

This motion has been signed by 32 Members. It has received 1 amendment.The tabling Member has subsequently withdrawn this motion.

As this motion is using historical data, we may not have the record of the original ordering, in which case signatories are listed alphabetically.

This motion has subsequently been withdrawn by the tabling Member.

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Motion text

That this House welcomes the Save our Bacon campaign being run by the British Pig Executive; notes that feed prices have increased by more than 100 per cent. in the past year, and that due to price pressure from supermarkets, British farmers are now being paid around £1.10 per kg for a pig that now costs them £1.44 per kg to produce, meaning that for every pig a farmer rears and sells, he is likely to lose over £20; believes the current situation to be unsustainable; and calls upon supermarkets to take the lead in setting out responsible business practice and paying a fair price for pigs, in order to support farmers across the country.

The first 6 Members who have signed to support the motion are the sponsors. The primary sponsor is generally the person who tabled the motion and has responsibility for it. The date shown is when the Member signed the motion.

Farron, Tim
Liberal Democrat
Signed on 27 February 2008
Westmorland and Lonsdale
Primary
Hoyle, Mr Lindsay
Labour
Signed on 27 February 2008
Chorley
George, Andrew
Liberal Democrat
Signed on 27 February 2008
St. Ives
Spink, Bob
Conservative
Signed on 27 February 2008
Castle Point
Bottomley, Sir Peter
Conservative
Signed on 27 February 2008
Worthing West
Weir, Mr Mike
Scottish National Party
Signed on 28 February 2008
Angus

In addition to the sponsors, the following Members have signed to support the motion.

Borrow, Mr David S.
Labour
Signed on 5 March 2008
South Ribble
Breed, Mr Colin
Liberal Democrat
Signed on 3 March 2008
South East Cornwall
Campbell, Mr Gregory
Democratic Unionist Party
Signed on 4 March 2008
East Londonderry
Cryer, Mrs Ann
Labour
Signed on 3 March 2008
Keighley
Dean, Mrs Janet
Labour
Signed on 28 February 2008
Burton
Devine, Jim
Labour
Signed on 4 March 2008
Livingston
Dobbin, Jim
Labour
Signed on 4 March 2008
Heywood and Middleton
Etherington, Bill
Labour
Signed on 11 March 2008
Sunderland North
Evans, Mr Nigel
Conservative
Signed on 5 March 2008
Ribble Valley
Hamilton, Mr David
Labour
Signed on 11 March 2008
Midlothian
Hancock, Mr Mike
Liberal Democrat
Signed on 3 March 2008
Portsmouth South
Hughes, Simon
Liberal Democrat
Signed on 28 February 2008
North Southwark and Bermondsey
Jenkins, Mr Brian
Labour
Signed on 5 March 2008
Tamworth
Jones, Lynne
Labour
Signed on 5 March 2008
Birmingham, Selly Oak
Keetch, Mr Paul
Liberal Democrat
Signed on 4 March 2008
Hereford
Knight, Mr Greg
Conservative
Signed on 4 March 2008
East Yorkshire
Maclean, David
Conservative
Signed on 5 March 2008
Penrith and The Border
McCafferty, Chris
Labour
Signed on 5 March 2008
Calder Valley
McDonnell, John
Labour
Signed on 4 March 2008
Hayes and Harlington
Morley, Elliot
Labour
Signed on 5 March 2008
Scunthorpe
Pope, Mr Greg
Labour
Signed on 5 March 2008
Hyndburn
Simpson, David
Democratic Unionist Party
Signed on 5 March 2008
Upper Bann
Vis, Dr Rudi
Labour
Signed on 5 March 2008
Finchley and Golders Green
Williams, Mrs Betty
Labour
Signed on 3 March 2008
Conwy
Winterton, Ann
Conservative
Signed on 28 February 2008
Congleton
Winterton, Sir Nicholas
Conservative
Signed on 28 February 2008
Macclesfield

There are no withdrawn signatures for this motion.

After a motion has been tabled, other Members can table amendments to it. Amendments to this motion are shown below.

BRITISH PIG EXECUTIVE SAVE OUR BACON CAMPAIGN (Amendment 1)
after `£20', insert `further notes that the increase in grain prices has resulted in increases of 70 per cent. and 45 per cent. in the income of grain farmers respectively in the past two years; believes that unjustifiably high subsidies should be clawed back from grain farmers and redistributed to pig farmers; further '.
Paul Flynn
Labour, Newport West
1
signature
EDM 1065A1: tabled on 28 February 2008
Withdrawn