List of all MP's written & emailed.

ja-de · 4th August 2007, 01:02

It has been suggested that it would be of advantage if everyone added the names of all MP's who they have either written or sent emails to.

Please note all Parliamentary Members
are:
Contacted - Green
Responded - Blue

Abbott, Diane MP - Hackney North & Stoke Newington
Ainsworth, Rt Hon Bob MP - Coventry North East
Alexander, Rt Hon Douglas MP - Paisley & Renfrewshire South (Part Response)
Bailey, Adrian MP - West Bromwich West, West Midlands
Balls, Rt Hon Ed MP - Normanton, West Yorkshire
Barlow, Celia MP - Hove
Baron, John MP - Billericay
Battle, Rt Hon John MP - Leeds West
Bayley, Hugh MP - York
Bellingham, Henry MP - North West Norfolk
Betts, Clive MP - Sheffield, Attercliffe
Blears, Rt Hon Hazel MP - Salford
Borrow, David MP - South Ribble
Boswell, Tim MP - Daventry
Brady, Graham MP - Altringham & Sale West
Breed, Colin MP - South East Cornwall
Brown, Rt Hon Gordon MP - Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath (Prime Minister)
Burgon, Colin MP - Elmet
Cable, Dr Vincent MP - Twickenham
Cameron, Rt Hon David MP - Witney (Leader of the opposition)
Campbell, Ronnie MP - Blyth Valley
Cawsey, Ian MP - Goole and Surrounding areas
Challon, Colin MP - Morley & Rothwell
Chapman, Ben MP - Wirral South
Clarke, Rt Hon Charles MP - Norwich South
Clarke, Rt Hon Tom MP - Coatbridge, Chryston & Bellshill
Corbyn, Jeremy MP - Islington North
Cummings, John MP - Easington Co. Durham
Curtis-Thomas, Clare MP - Crosby
Darling, Rt Hon Alistair MP - Edinburgh South West (Chancellor of the Exchequer)
Davis, David MP - Monmouthshire
Davis, Quentin MP - Grantham & Stamford
Davis, Rt Hon David MP - Haltemprice & Howden
Devine, Jim MP - Livingston
Doran, Frank MP - Aberdeen North
Dowd, Jim MP - Lewisham West
Eagle,Angela MP - Wallasey
Evans, Nigel MP - Ribble Valley
Featherstone, Lynne MP - Hornsey & Wood Green
Flynn, Paul MP - Newport West
Follett, Barbara MP - Stevenage
Foster, Michael MP - Worcester
Francois, Mark MP - Rayleigh
Fraser, Christopher MP - South West Norfolk
Galloway, George MP - Bethnal Green & Bow
Gerrard, Neil MP - Walthamstow
Gibb, Nick MP - Littlehampton
Gidley, Sandra MP - Romsey
Goldsworthy, Julia MP - Falmouth & Camborne
Goodman, Helen MP - County Durham
Green, Damien MP - Ashford, Kent
Greenway, John MP - Rydale
Griffiths, Nigel MP - Edinburgh South
Grogan, John MP - Selby
Hague, Rt Hon William MP - Richmond (Yorkshire)
Hall, Mike MP - Weaver Vale
Hall, Patrick MP - Bedford
Harris, Dr. Evan MP - Oxford West & Abingdon
Harvey, Nick MP - North Devon
Hendrick, Mark MP - Preston
Hill, Rt Hon Keith MP - Streatham
Holmes, Paul MP - Chesterfield
Hood, Jim MP - Lanark & Hamilton East
Hope, Phil MP - Corby
Howarth, Gerald MP - Aldershot (Shadow Defense Secretary)
Howarth, Rt Hon George MP - Knowsley North & Sefton East
Humble, Joan MP - Blackpool North
Hutton, Rt Hon John MP - Barrow & Furness
Jack, Rt Hon Michael MP - Fylde
Johnson, Diana MP - Kingston Upon Hull North
Jones, Helen MP - Warrington North
Kawczynski, Daniel MP - Shrewsbury & Atcham
Kelly, Ruth MP - Bolton West
Kennedy, Rt Hon Jane MP - Liverpool Wavertree
Kirkbride, Julie MP - Bromsgrove
Knight, Rt Hon Greg MP - East Yorkshire
Laws, Mr David MP - Yeovil
Lazarowicz, Mark MP - Edinburgh North & Leigh
Lloyd, Tony MP - Manchester Central
Loughton, Tim MP - East Worthing & Shoreham
MacKay, Rt Hon Andrew MP - `Bracknell
MacNeil, Angus MP - Na h-Eile anan an lar
Malik, Shahid MP - Dewsbury
Mann, John MP - Bassetlaw
Marsden, Gordon MP - Blackpool South
McCartney,Rt Hon Ian MP - Makerfield
McFall, Rt Hon John MP - West Dunbartonshire
Meale, Alan MP - Mansfield
Miliband, Rt Hon Edward MP - Doncaster North
Miller, Andrew MP - Ellesmere Port & Neston
Mitchell, Austin MP - Great Grimsby
Moffatt, Laura MP - Crawley
Moran, Margaret MP - Luton South
Morden, Jessica MP - Newport East
Morgan, Julie MP - Cardiff North
Moss, Malcolm MP - North East Cambridgeshire
Mundell, David MP - Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale & Tweeddale
Neill, Bob MP - Bromley & Chiselhurst
Oaten, Mark MP - Winchester
Osborne, George MP - Tatton (Shadow Chancellor)
Ottaway, Richard MP - Croydon South
Owen, Albert MP - Ynys Môn
Pelling, Andrew MP - Croydon Central
Penrose, John MP - Weston-Super-Mare
Plaskitt, James MP - Warwick & Leamington
Prentice, Gordon MP - Pendle
Prescott, Rt Hon John MP - Hull East
Pugh, Dr John MP - Southport
Purnell, Rt Hon James MP - Stalybridge & Hyde
Robathan, Andrew MP - Blaby in Leicestershire
Robertson, Hugh MP - Faversham & Mid Kent
Rogerson, Dan MP - North Cornwall
Rooney, Terry MP - Bradford North
Russell, Christine MP - Chester, City of
Ryan, Joan MP - Enfield
Salmond, Rt Hon Alex MP - Banff & Buchan
Scott, Lee MP - Ilford North
Seabeck, Alison MP - Plymouth, Devon
Shaw, Jonathan MP - Chatham and Aylesford
Smith, Angela C. MP - Sheffield, Hillsborough
Smith, Angela E. MP - Basildon & Thurrock
Smith, Geraldine MP - Morecambe & Lunesdale
Smith, John MP - Vale of Glamorgan
Southworth, Helen MP - Warrington South
Spink, Dr Bob MP - Castle Point
Stanley, Rt Hon Sir John MP - Tonbridge & Malling
Starkey, Dr Phylis MP - Milton Keynes
Straw, Rt Hon Jack MP - Blackburn (Justice Minister)
Syms, Robert MP - Poole
Taylor, Dr Richard MP - Wyre Forest
Thomas, Gareth MP - Harrow West
Thurso, John MP - Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross
Touhig, Rt Hon Don MP - Islwyn, Caerphilly
Twigg, Derek MP - Halton
Tyrie, Andrew MP - Chichester
Ussher, Kitty MP - Burnley
Ward, Claire MP - Watford
Wareing, Rt Hon Robert MP - Liverpool, West Derby
Wills, Michael MP - North Swindon
Wilshire, David MP - Spelthorne, Middlesex
Woolas, Phil MP - Oldham East & Saddleworth
Wright, Anthony MP - Great Yarmouth

Please check here for the Complete list of MP's

Has anyone written to their MP, but haven't yet let us know?
We would be very grateful if you could tell us either here, or if you have received a reply, please let us know here, thank you!

livelylad · 8th August 2007, 15:16

It has been decided to use the first post as a diffinitive list of all MP's who have been contacted and their responses. To that end post will be removed and stored here once the information has been moved to the first post. You will recieve a Pm informing you of this.

MacBoy · 8th August 2007, 16:28

COMPLAIN TO YOUR MP ABOUT THE UNFAIR AND BIASED WAY THE FSA HAS HANDLED THE THE OFT CASE WHEN IT WAS SUPPOSEDLY ESTABLISHED TO SUPPORT CONSUMERS, NOT ISOLATE THEM

Just 5 Easy Steps!

Use the template letter here
Copy the text (amend if necessary but it will be fine as is for most people).
click the link to the site shown at the bottom of the letter or click here
Follow the instructions on the site to send to your MP (it will tell you who your MP is if you do not know.
Go here to tell us which MP you've written to.

RESPONSES FROM YOUR MP, PROGRESS REPORTS AND GENERAL CHAT ABOUT THE MP CAMPAIGN SHOULD NOT BE POSTED IN THIS THREAD - PLEASE POST HERE INSTEAD, WHERE THE THREAD WILL BE ALLOWED TO RUN ITS COURSE AND NOT BE CUT DOWN FOR CLARIFICATION

Thank you!

ja-de · 9th August 2007, 13:20

In order to make it easier for you to check who has responded, I am compiling a list that will be continually updated for MP's only.

stonedecroze · 10th August 2007, 23:58

PLEASE DO NOT DELETE THIS POST.
THIS INFORMATION IS IMPORTANT.

If you are going to Email your MP Please be aware that this the Houses of Parliament website will severely restrict the amount of information that can send.
http://www.parliament.uk/alms

you will be restricted to 4000 chars in your message. This includes your full personal details, ie: Name, Full address, Email, Telephone number and Email verification.
When I used this to contact my MP Mrs Joan Humble, Blackpool North. my message was reduced to just over 3000 chars. I was forced to edit (butcher) the template leter from this thread so much that it became a nonsense, I lost the full Human rights section, much of the pre-amble etc. They include spaces, Paragraphs (even double or triple line gaps in address etc.

Therefore please, I cannot stress enough, DO NOT USE THIS LINK. Instead us the link on this thread as there are no restrictions to the length of the text that you send, and therefore you can edit the template letter to suit your own circumstances. I have include the link below to help.

WriteToThem.com - Email or fax your Councillor, MP, MEP, MSP or Welsh, NI, London Assembly Member for free

Finaly do not delay, post today.

Keep up the good work, regards, Stonedecroze

jdaraf · 12th August 2007, 14:43

Macboy,

I work for an MP and would like to advise that anyone who emails an MP must make sure they include their full address as MP's need to know if the sender of an email is their constituent. As they are not allowed to act for another MP's constituent.

If you do not include your full address you will need to be recontacted for your address which will delay matters.

MP's will correspond via email which is quicker for both parties.

MP's do, and are taking this up as a matter of concern and I am asking my MP to raise it as a question in the House as companies and organisations don't like being identified in parliament.

I am claiming bank charges myself and I am keeping my MP updated on the process and problems being faced by customers.

Your letter is good but I would advise that people sending emails do so directly to their MP and not via a third party site. Details of how to contact all MP's are available on the Houses of Parliament website see link below.

UK Parliament - alcm

Regards
jdaraf

crfx250 · 10th September 2007, 17:24

The FSA will not be in session with the Treasury Select Committee on
20 September as I had thought (I read it in The Independent - what a crap paper)

But they will be up against them in early October (see below). Unfortunately this will be after the waiver review on 27 September but assuming it won't get revoked it's still worth targeting MP's.
waiver will not be revoked

Dear crfx,

The Treasury Committee will take evidence from the Bank of England on the August Inflation report on September 20. Inflation report hearings are a regular part of the Committee's programme - transcripts of past sessions can be found on our website. The FSA will not be represented at this session.

The Committee takes evidence on the FSA's annual report and accounts once a year - usually in the Autumn. The date for this year's session has not yet been confirmed - but we expect that it will take place in early October.

Best wishes

Lis McCracken
Treasury Committee
House of Commons
London SW1P 3JA
Tel: 0207 219 5769
Fax: 0207 219 2782
http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/treascom.cfm

livelylad · 21st September 2007, 15:11

Ok, as I have stated all posts that have been removed have been stored HERE and not deleted.
There are 564 posts stored there, if all these posts were still on this thread it would be over 23 pages long. This would make this thread difficult if not impossible to control.
I understand your concerns regarding responses from MP's, I have disscused a possible solution with Macboy. We are open to suggestions, please feel free to impart your ideas. Thank you.

MacBoy · 21st September 2007, 17:03

OK Everyone - I Think We Now Have A Solution!

There have been competing pressures between allowing ja-de and myself to accurately record details of the representatives you've been writing to; and your eagerness (quite rightly so) to post your responses and discuss them.

This led to a dilemma. We asked the long-suffering and helpful Lively Lad (take a bow, LL!) to help keep the thread clear and restricted to messages telling us who you'd written to so that we could record these, collect statistics and name names. But this had the unfortunate effect of frustrating some posters, who felt we were deleting and ignoring their responses; which we weren't. In fact they were being held in storage, but you weren't necessarily to know that.

So we have decided to create a second thread, purely for replies and discussion about the campaign, which will not be cut down and will be allowed to run its course. However you will see (as we have restored all your old posts to visibility), just how difficult this would have made it for us to keep track of what was happening. On its own (and depending on the prefs you've set to view the site), it is some 23 pages long with hundreds of posts.

So in summary, please:

1.USE THIS THREAD TO TELL US WHO YOU'VE WRITTEN TO ONLY

2. POST YOUR RESPONSES AND DISCUSS HERE, IN THE 'MPs CAMPAIGN - RESPONSES' THREAD

For ease of use, we suggest re-typing your letters rather than scanning them, but if you prefer to scan, you will need to know how to host the image in your post and have the webspace available in which to host it (or an account with a site such as Photobucket, Flickr, etc.). PM me if you have any questions about this and I'll be happy to try and assist.

Hope this clarifies things and we can move forward with our campaign, which has now hit the '100 MPs contacted' mark - WOO HOO!!!

Have a great weekend and thanks for bearing with us

Best
Mac

crfx250 · 21st September 2007, 17:09

Well done guys

olden · 21st September 2007, 23:54

OK Can I just say thanks to you clever people .

ja-de · 22nd September 2007, 13:39

Can I just say the same as Mac, & that's thank you, to LL for all the hard work of removing posts, & creating our new thread, & to everyone for their understanding.
Both Mac & myself will be monitoring our second thread for all correspondence, be it MP's contacted, &/or replies.

MacBoy · 23rd September 2007, 22:50

COMPLAIN TO YOUR MP ABOUT THE UNFAIR AND BIASED WAY THE FSA HAS HANDLED THE THE OFT CASE WHEN IT WAS SUPPOSEDLY ESTABLISHED TO SUPPORT CONSUMERS, NOT ISOLATE THEM

Just 5 Easy Steps!

Use the template letter here
Copy the text (amend if necessary but it will be fine as is for most people).
click the link to the site shown at the bottom of the letter or click here
Follow the instructions on the site to send to your MP (it will tell you who your MP is if you do not know.
Go here to tell us which MP you've written to.

RESPONSES FROM YOUR MP, PROGRESS REPORTS AND GENERAL CHAT ABOUT THE MP CAMPAIGN SHOULD NOT BE POSTED IN THIS THREAD - PLEASE POST HERE INSTEAD, WHERE THE THREAD WILL BE ALLOWED TO RUN ITS COURSE AND NOT BE CUT DOWN FOR CLARIFICATION

Thank you!

crfx250 · 3rd October 2007, 13:03

The FSA are up before the parliamentary select committee next week - Tue 9 Oct-
and although I'm not sure they'll be discussing anything other than Northern Rock
I think this is worth a punt.

This is s draft so please voice your comments. Iv'e left this a bit late so I'd like to get it off by tomorrow - thu 3 Oct.

Cheers

Rt Hon John McFall MP
Chairman Treasury Select Committee
House of Commons
London
SW1A 0AA

Dear Mr McFall

FSA Complaints Handling Waiver

I write to you in your capacity of Treasury Select Committee Chairman about the reasons and fairness of the complaints handling waiver issued by the Financial Services Authority to banks in relation to the OFT test case on the issue of bank overdraft charges.

I would be most obliged if you would seek clarification from the FSA as to the reasons for the waiver's introduction.

The FSA have offered 2 reasons for the waiver's introduction:

1) ''We have granted the waiver to help facilitate this test case''

The OFT have confirmed to me in a request under the Freedom of Information Act that not only were they not consulted about the granting of the waiver nor given any reason for the need for it's introduction but they believe that the waiver ''has no facilitary value'' to it's case. I have also sought the views of various legal
professionals, all of whom cast doubt on the FSA's claim including one senior barrister specialising in financial regulatory law who described it as ''nonsense''.

2) ''We believe it is not in the interests of all consumers for complaints to continue to be dealt with in the current inconsistent way''

As you will recall the FSA published the report on it's thematic work on overdraft charges complaints handling and it's letter to CEO's on the same day it announced the introduction of the waiver. The report and letter were highly critical of the banks handling of these complaints. Therefore it would seem that due to the Bank's own mis-handling of complaints, they were able to successfully apply for a waiver that absolved them of their responsibility to process complaints at all, regardless of the fact that the responsibility for ensuring complaints are handled fairly falls with the FSA themselves.

The FSA has also suggested that of customers claiming refunds of charges ''some are successful and some are not''. But this is simply not the case as of the many tens of thousands of court cases dealing with claims, defeats can be counted on the fingers of one hand and the FOS has a 100 percent record in securing refunds.

Despite my own efforts to seek clarification, many Members of Parliament have written to the FSA on behalf of constituents questioning the necessity for the waiver and voicing concerns that as a direct result account holders can no longer challenge these charges or seek redress through the courts or the FOS while banks can freely continue to levy them:

David Wilshire
Jessica Morden
Diana Johnson
Julie Morgan
George Osborne
John Greenway
Alison Seabeck
Andrew Duff
Andrew Mackay
Joan Humble
Claire Curtis-Thomas
William Hague

All these MP's received, word for word, the same templated response which was simply cut and pasted from the original announcement on the OFT website (please find examples enclosed)

It seems clear that the FSA will not justify the reasons for the waiver as a matter of policy. And it is difficult not to come to the conclusion that the banks were granted the waiver as an inducement to agree to the test case.

I would urge you, as a matter of priority, to address this issue with the FSA.

crfx250 · 3rd October 2007, 13:22

Quote:

Originally Posted by olden

Hi there crfx I think that is excellent. Is there anything else we can do. How will you get them to take notice of this and get it on their agenda? It needs to have some power behind it they may ignore it as they do with most things?

The only thing that worries me is that I am not a contituent of the chairman, John McFall, as strictly speaking he can only respond to his
own contituents. If there's anyone out there that lives in West Dunbartonshire then let me know.

I will though send it to all members of the committee but if there's anyone
who has these MPs again let me know

UK Parliament - Treasury Committee Members

MacBoy · 3rd October 2007, 16:08

Good letter crfx - I don't think you need to change anything. A great opportunity to do some highly-targeted political campaigning.

Are you intending to mail them all yourself? If so, may I also suggest that any of the constituents of the committee members reading this also follow up with our letter as a matter of urgency, ahead of the meeting? Sadly, none of them have been contacted by us at all at this stage.

Those committee members again (together with their status on our database):

Graham Brady (Altrincham & Sale West) - not contacted for main letter
Colin Breed (South East Cornwall) - not contacted for main letter
Jim Cousins (Newcastle -Upon-Tyne Central) - not contacted for main letter
Sion Simon (Birmingham Erdington) - not contacted for main letter
Philip Dunne (Ludlow) - not contacted for main letter
Angela Eagle (Wallasey) - not contacted for main letter
Michael Fallon (Sevenoaks - Sub-committee Chairman) - not contacted for main letter
Sally Keeble (Northampton North) - not contacted for main letter
Andrew Love (Edmonton) - not contacted for main letter
John McFall (West Dunbartonshire - Chairman) - not contacted for main letter
George Mudie (Leeds East)- not contacted for main letter
John Thurso (Caithness, Sutherland & Easter Ross) - not contacted for main letter
Mark Todd (South Derbyshire) - not contacted for main letter
Peter Viggers (Gosport) - not contacted for main letter

Let's get their minds focused!

Lively Lad - please could we get crfx's and this post duplicated in the new thread?

crfx250 · 3rd October 2007, 16:14

ok Mac. I was planning on writing and e-mailing all of them myself. Although on one hand it would be better if it came from a constituent it
would mean we couldn't really send the same letter to more than one committee member

MacBoy · 3rd October 2007, 16:18

crfx - I was only suggesting that if anyone saw their MP on the above committee list that they send a copy our generic letter to them in addition.

I agree with you that it would be best and safest if you mail the committee with your specific letter..

Sorry if i didn't get that across

crfx250 · 3rd October 2007, 16:19

Understood. I'll get on the case right now...

crfx250 · 3rd October 2007, 17:19

Right Iv'e e-mailed all the committee members but have already got back
this from one:

Thank you for your email to Angela Eagle MP. Emails are treated in the
same manner and with the same level of importance as other
communications, i.e. post, telephone and fax. The office is very busy
and all items have to be prioritised. Please do not be offended if you
do not receive an immediate response.

Parliament has strict rules that mean a Member of Parliament can only
respond to the substance of communications from their own constituents.
Please ensure that you have included in your email your name and full
postal address. If this was not included in your email, please re-send
your full email with your postal address and full name.

I can only hope that they take into account the first line of my e-mail
that says ''I am writing to you in your capacity of Treasury Select Committee member''.

I'm going to send them all one by post too including photocopies of 3 FSA
letters to MPs that are identical.

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