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LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND WATER DISCONNECTION

EDM (Early Day Motion) 1765A3: tabled on 05 May 1993

Tabled in the 1992-93 session.

This motion has been signed by 1 Member. 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 Helen Jackson on 14 April 1993. This is amendment number 3.

View details of the original motion

Suggested amendment

after 'Richmondshire', insert 'Rossendale'.

Original motion text

That this House congratulates these local authorities, Burnley, Canterbury, Cleethorpes, Coventry, Darlington, Great Yarmouth, Ipswich, Langbaurgh-on-Tees, Leicester, Lincoln, Luton, North Tyneside, North Wiltshire, Nuneaton and Bedworth, Oadby and Wigston, Oxford, Richmondshire, Southampton, South Derbyshire, Southend-on-Sea, Stafford, Tonbridge and Malling, Vale of Glamorgan, Warrington, Waveney, Wellingborough, Woodspring and others that have taken reports through their councils, expressing concern at the rising level of water disconnections in domestic properties, and the threat this poses to levels of public health; and calls upon Her Majesty's Government to take steps to bring the law in England and Wales into line with that in Scotland, where at present it is illegal to cut off the water supply to domestic properties that are lived in.

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.

There are no withdrawn signatures for this amendment.