CONDUCT OF THE HONOURABLE MEMBER FOR ISLWYN

Early day motion 473, tabled 21 March 2001 by Elfyn Llwyd (Plaid Cymru). Signed by 4 members.

That this House notes that the honourable Member for Islwyn sent a letter on House of Commons notepaper to all the schools in the constituency of Islwyn detailing the Government's planned children's tax credit; further notes with dismay that such unsolicited letters were accompanied by a request for the same to be copied and distributed to all schoolchildren for delivery to their parents; questions the propriety of this action within close proximity to calling a general election; deprecates such behaviour as using already cash-strapped resources of schools for overtly political ends; and condemns the use of schoolchildren in this way to deliver details of a policy change which had already been in the public domain since last autumn.

Signatures by party: Plaid Cymru 3, Labour 1.