PARLIAMENTARY EARLY DAY MOTION
MINIMUM CALL CHARGES (18 March 1999)
Motion Details
That this House believes that people's telephone bills are unnecessarily high due to the practice adopted by telephone companies of imposing minimum charges for calls that might only last seconds when a caller reaches voicemail or an answerphone, send a short fax or tries but fails to connect to the Internet or just talks briefly on the phone; and urges British Telecom and other telephone companies, which make hugh profits, to scrap minimum call charges and only charge the consumer for the time actually spent on calls.
Sponsored by:
Mr Harry Barnes (Labour)
EDMS Sponsor By Party
Party
Votes
%
Labour
22
61%
Independent
6
17%
Liberal Democrat
6
17%
Scottish National Party
1
3%
Plaid Cymru
1
3%
Sponsor List (36 sponsors)
Party
Member
Constituency
Lab
Ms Diane Abbott
Hackney North and Stoke Newington
Lab
Mr Harry Barnes (Sponsor)
LD
Sir Vince Cable
Ind
Mr David Chaytor
Lab
Mr Michael Clapham
Ind
Jeremy Corbyn
Islington North
Lab
Tom Cox
Lab
Mrs Ann Cryer
Lab
John Cummings
Lab
Mr Lawrence Cunliffe
SNP
Ms Roseanna Cunningham
LD
Ed Davey
Kingston and Surbiton
Lab
Mr Ian Davidson
Lab
Mr Andrew Dismore
Lab
Bill Etherington
Lab
Michael Jabez Foster
Ind
Mr Mike Hancock
Ind
Mr Eric Illsley
LD
Lord Jones of Cheltenham
Lab
Lynne Jones
Lab
Dr Ashok Kumar
Ind
Mr Ken Livingstone
PC
Mr Elfyn Llwyd
Lab
Alice Mahon
Ind
John McDonnell
Hayes and Harlington
Lab
Mr Kevin McNamara
Lab
Mr Bill Michie
Lab
Syd Rapson
LD
Sir Bob Russell
Lab
Alan Simpson
LD
Angela Smith
Lab
Mr Gerry Steinberg
Lab
Graham Stringer
Blackley and Middleton South
Lab
David Taylor
Lab
Dr Rudi Vis
LD
Steve Webb
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