MPs debate BHS
13 October 2016
On Thursday 20 October MPs debated and approved a motion in the House of Commons Chamber on BHS. This debate was scheduled by the Backbench Business Committee following a representation from Frank Field, Michelle Thomson and Richard Fuller.
This debate was opened by Frank Field, Labour MP for Birkenhead.
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Text of the Motion debated and approved:
That this House notes the recent joint Report by the Business, Innovation and Skills and the Work and Pensions Committees on BHS; endorses that Report's criticisms of the governance of the company and of the holding company, Taveta Investments Limited; believes that the sale of the company to Retail Acquisitions Limited for £1 was clearly not in the interests of British Home Stores' employees and pensioners; notes the failure of Sir Philip Green over many years to resolve the deficit in the BHS pension fund; and calls on him to fulfil his promise to do so forthwith; and, noting that Philip Green received his knighthood for his services for the retail industry, believes his actions raise the question of whether he should be allowed to continue as a holder of the honour and calls on the Honours Forfeiture Committee to recommend his knighthood be cancelled and annulled.
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