CONDUCT OF THE HON. MEMBER FOR TOTNES

Early day motion 502, tabled 6 December 2007 by Ken Purchase (Labour). Signed by 31 members.

That this House condemns the comments in the South Devon Herald Express newspaper on 19th November 2007 attributed to the hon. Member for Totnes criticising the idea of allowing local authorities to build new council housing on the grounds that `No one felt any obligation to anybody on these public housing estates, they were hotbeds of crime. It's a very serious, retrograde step'; and calls on the hon. Member either to issue a correction if his comments were wrongly reported or to apologise to the millions of law abiding citizens of this country who have lived, or currently live, on public housing estates, including those in the hon. Member for Totnes' constituency.

Signatures by party: Labour 23, Liberal Democrat 6, Independent 1, Social Democratic and Labour Party 1.