PEAS PROCESSING IN EAST ANGLIA

Early day motion 1431, tabled 12 June 2002 by Norman Lamb (Liberal Democrat). Signed by 17 members.

That this House notes the closure of the Albert Fisher pea food processing factory in Kings Lynn; further notes that as well as the sad loss of hundreds of jobs, some 120 growers of peas in East Anglia face the loss of their crop unless alternative processors can be found; and calls on the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to intervene and hold urgent talks with the receivers, the National Farmers' Union and trade unions with a view to saving the plant, its jobs and the livelihoods of pea growers across East Anglia.

Signatures by party: Liberal Democrat 9, Labour 6, Conservative 1, UUP 1.