FINANCIAL SERVICES AUTHORITY AND ICE CREAM ADVERTISEMENTS

Early day motion 296, tabled 9 February 1999 by Bob Russell (Liberal Democrat). Signed by 18 members.

That this House deplores the series of advertisements produced by the Financial Services Authority which show a member of the public buying a single ice cream at an inflated price, being short-changed, and then experiencing difficulty in getting the correct change; believes that such advertising is offensive, is detrimental to the retail ice cream business as a whole, and in particular is damaging to individual businesses; and calls on the Financial Services Authority to withdraw such negative and hostile publicity and to apologise to the ice cream industry.

Signatures by party: Labour 9, Liberal Democrat 7, Conservative 1, Independent Labour 1.