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PRE-CHRISTMAS SUNDAY OPENINGS

EDM (Early Day Motion) 268A1: tabled on 03 December 1991

Tabled in the 1991-92 session.

This motion has been signed by 10 Members. It is an amendment to an existing 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 is an amendment to an existing motion

This motion was originally tabled by David Alton on 26 November 1991. This is amendment number 1.

View details of the original motion

Suggested amendment

at end add 'and in accordance with its often repeated claim to be concerned to uphold law and order.'.

Original motion text

That this House unreservedly condemns the decision of Tesco, Asda and Safeway to deliberately flout the trading laws; congratulates Marks and Spencer and Waitrose for deploring their competitors' decision to break the law; supports USDAW and shop workers in their demands for shop workers to be spared Sunday working; and calls on Her Majesty's Government to uphold the Sunday trading laws in accordance with the declared wishes of this Parliament.