Blacklisting in Construction

The motion

That the Parliament notes with concern the recent revelations of the House of Commons Scottish Affairs Committee inquiry into the blacklisting of construction workers; is concerned at the activities of the Consulting Association, which is reported to have held 3,213 names on a database that employers used to vet potential employees in the industry, a database that held information about construction workers’ personal relationships, trade union activity and employment history; understands that this was used to deny individual construction workers employment and that the following companies have used the Consulting Association’s service - Amec Building Ltd , Amec Construction Ltd, Amec Facilities Ltd, Amec Ind Div, Amec Process & Energy Ltd, Amey Construction – ex-member, B Sunley & Sons – ex-member, Balfour Beatty, Balfour Kilpatrick, Ballast (Wiltshire) PLC – ex-member, Bam Construction (HBC Construction), Bam Nuttall (Edmund Nutall Ltd), C B & I, Cleveland Bridge UK Ltd, Costain UK Ltd, Crown House Technologies (Carillion/Tarmac Const), Diamond M & E Services, Dudley Bower & Co Ltd – ex-member, Emcor (Drake & Scull) - ‘Ex Ref’, Emcor Rail, G Wimpey Ltd – ex-member, Haden Young Kier Ltd, John Mowlem Ltd - ex-member, Laing O’Rourk (Laing Ltd), Lovell Construction (UK) Ltd – ex-member, Miller Construction Limited – ex-member, Morgan Ashurst, Morgan Est, Morrison Construction Group – ex-member, N G Bailey, Shepherd Engineering Services, Sias Building Services, Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd, Skanska (Kaverna/Trafalgar House Plc), SPIE (Matthew Hall) - ex-member, Taylor Woodrow Construction Ltd – ex-member, Turriff Construction Ltd – ex-member, Tysons Contractors – ex-member,
Walter Llewellyn & Sons Ltd - ex-member, Whessoe Oil & Gas, Willmott Dixon – ex-member, Vinci PLC (Norwest Holst Group); urges anyone with concerns about whether or not they are on the database to contact the helpline on 0303 123 1113 between 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday; commends the work of UNITE the Union, UCATT and others in highlighting what it considers these scandalous practices, and calls on the Information Commissioner to release all of the names of those who have been affected by what it sees as this scandal.

No recorded vote on this motion. Most motions are never debated, and many that are debated are agreed without a division. Vote records are published from 2011.

Lab 13 SNP 4 Ind 1

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No contribution in the Official Report cites S4M-04596 by reference.