William (The Earl of) DARTMOUTH
Constituencies
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United Kingdom
United Kingdom Independence Party
2009/07/14 - 9999/12/31
Groups
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EFD
Member
Europe of freedom and democracy Group
2009/07/14 - 9999/12/31
Committees
| Role | Committee | Start | End |
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| Member of | Committee on International Trade | 2012/01/19 | 9999/12/31 |
| Substitute of | Committee on Foreign Affairs | 2012/01/19 | 9999/12/31 |
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Born
1949/09/23 London- BA (Hons.), Christ Church College, Oxford University (1970). Elected Secretary of the Oxford Union (1969). Harvard Business School (1977-1979): MBA concentrating on Marketing and Finance (1979). FCA (Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales), ACA (1975). Worked outside the UK (1975-1985): for Whinney Murray (now part of Ernst and Young) in the Middle East (1975-1977); for Marsh and MacLennan (holding company), Macmillan Inc. - Fortune 500 publishing and media company in the United States (1977-1985).
- Member of the Governing Body, University of Huddersfield (1995-1998).
Amendments
| Amendments | Dossier |
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2009/2201(INI) Corporate and social responsibility in international trade agreements
2010/07/10
INTA
6 amendments...
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Calls on the Commission to remember that CSR was originally a voluntary activity by responsible companies intended to ensure that their impact was beneficial to the Member States and states in which they operate and to recognise that, in this context, maintaining the voluntary principle and having organisations choose to act at their discretion is the best method to ensure the most productive outcomes;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Notes that legal requirements, regulation and bureaucratic procedure can have a particularly damaging impact on SMEs as they attempt to grow with limited resources and / or enter new markets, and therefore calls upon the Commission to ensure that any actions which arise from this report do not add to the bureaucratic burden particularly on SMEs or have a deleterious impact upon their entrepreneurial initiatives;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Notes that the imposition of legal requirements from supra-national bodies can reduce the functioning of electoral democracy and calls on the Commission to ensure that the terms of all international agreements which it seeks to implement do not reduce the democratic rights of self-determination of any of the parties to the agreement;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 12 point g a (new) ga. a particular focus on the impact of the employment of children and child labour practices;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 13 a (new) 13a. Points out, that if the impact of the introduction of a CSR legal requirement as a mandatory element in European Union FTAs is to displace industries and commercial activities from the Member States or the Member State's trading partners where standards are high, to countries with laxer regimes, this is then damaging to all of employment, tax revenue, climate concerns and prosperity and therefore calls upon the Commission to ensure that no perverse incentives and unintended consequences are generated;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 16 16. Advocates once again the establishment within the WTO of a Trade and Decent Work Committee, along the lines of the Trade and Development Committee, which would provide a forum for the discussion, in particular, of the issues of labour standards, especially as they relate to the employment of children, and CSR as they relate to international trade; proposes once again a revision of the dispute settlement procedure, so that in cases involving possible breaches of international environmental or labour agreements special groups (panels) or the appeal body can ask the competent international organisations to draw up opinions, which would then be published;
source: PE-450.649
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2009/2219(INI) Human rights, social and environmental standards in international trade agreements
2010/06/10
INTA
1 amendments...
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph –1 (new) -1. Notwithstanding anything below international trade relations are not an appropriate mechanism for dealing with human rights;
source: PE-450.633
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2010/0816(CNS)
2010/04/05
INTA
1 amendments...
Amendment 3 #
Proposal for a decision Recital 1 a (new) (1a) The EEAS should not frustrate the foreign policy of individual Member States and the foreign policy of each Member State should in all circumstances prevail.
source: PE-441.195
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2010/2080(INI) Civil law, commercial law, family law and private international law aspects of the Action plan implementing the Stockholm Programme
2010/07/20
INTA
1 amendments...
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) source: PE-445.862
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2010/2103(INI) International trade policy in the context of climate change imperatives
2010/07/10
INTA
2 amendments...
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Considers that, notwithstanding anything below, international trade relations are not an appropriate mechanism for dealing with climate change;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) 9a. Points out, however, that the impact of the introduction of climate change measures into the European Union's trade policies will be to displace specific industries and commercial activities from the Member States or the Member States' trading partners where standards are high, to developing and other countries with laxer regimes, and this is damaging to, inter alia, employment, tax revenue, climate concerns and prosperity and therefore calls upon the Commission to ensure that no perverse incentives and unintended consequences are generated;
source: PE-450.644
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2010/2205(INI) External dimension of social policy, promoting labour and social standards and the European Corporate Social Responsibility
2011/02/18
INTA
1 amendments...
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Wants the Commission, in its future communication on the internationalisation of SMEs‘ activities, to propose measures that help support and promote their initiatives in the field of CSR that take account of their specific circumstances
source: PE-458.587
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2010/2245(INI) Innovation Union: transforming Europe for a post-crisis world
2011/02/15
INTA
1 amendments...
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Not withstanding all the above, innovation cannot be legislated nor can it be generated by regulation; therefore calls on the Commission to interfere as little as possible and to ensure that as a starting point the Commission refrains from damaging that which it aims to encourage;
source: PE-458.746
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2010/2277(INI) Single Market for Enterprises and Growth
2011/02/16
INTA
15 amendments...
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Advocates coherence between the Union’s internal and external policies and its overall objectives, contributing to sustainable growth and employment in line with the EU 2020 strategy; urges that such coherence be pursued in the context of multilateral organisations and bilateral trade agreements through ex ante sustainable impact assessments (SIAs) and periodic ex post evaluations
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Considers it important to ensure market access, symmetry and transparency in public procurement procedures, as well as security and predictability in relation to investments; believes that quality and price and not any other policy or criteria must be the deciding factor in awarding public contracts; deplores the fact that, by increasing competitive pressure among countries to attract foreign investors, as well as competition between corporations, globalisation has resulted, in some cases, in serious abuses of human rights and labour rights and in damage to the environment; points out that companies have duties, and calls for a binding CSR clause to be included in trade agreements
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Considers it important to ensure market access, symmetry and transparency in public procurement procedures, as well as security and predictability in relation to investments; deplores the fact that, by increasing competitive pressure among countries to attract foreign investors, as well as competition between corporations, globalisation has resulted, in some cases, in serious abuses of human rights and labour rights and in damage to the environment; points out that companies have duties
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Asks the Commission to take account of the specific circumstances of SMEs and micro-businesses which can best be achieved by exempting them from the burden of regulation;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new) 4b. Believes that reference to coordination of national tax policies, notably by proposing a Directive introducing a common consolidated corporate tax base (CCCTB) must not remove from the Member States the right to determine their own tax policy and tax rates;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 c (new) 4c. Believes strongly that the posting of workers directive must not create two classes of citizens' rights within a single company or location and that the power of Member States to create and operate their own welfare structures must remain sacrosanct;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 d (new) 4d. Reminds the Commission that central planning failed throughout Central and Eastern Europe as well as all other countries in the world under socialism; therefore voices its alarm at the Commission's plans to create a European framework for the planning in advance of industrial restructuring;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 e (new) 4e. Points out that modern behavioural economics has demonstrated the perversity of the behavioural incentives given to people through interference in the market;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 f (new) 4f. Feels strongly that the Social Business Initiative should be permissive and not restrictive, that social ratings should be voluntary, that any use of savings must be limited to cases where ownership and title cannot be established, and that dormancy must not function as an unusual and cruel form of state punishment and an act of legalised theft for leaving money unused;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 g (new) 4g. Feels strongly that attempts to improve the quality of legal structures must not deprive shareholders and stakeholders of the right to determine for themselves the form of legal status they prefer;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 h (new) 4h. Points out that modern economics is riddled with examples of state planning going wrong and damaging the quality of people's lives; reminds the Commission that it is far from infallible and asks it to remember this at all times when seeking to develop and implement this programme;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 i (new) 4i. Feels strongly that mortgage market integration should have the effect of expanding and widening consumer choice not limiting it; urges that Commission action must not therefore cause products and offerings to be withdrawn from the market but add to their numbers; moreover, notes that mortgages are denominated in a currency, meaning exchange rates can have as much impact as interest rates, and urges, in this context, that stability must not be used to stultify the market;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 j (new) 4j. Recommends that the Commission understands that the best way to achieve its objective of eliminating the tax obstacles still facing European citizens is to take less of people's money;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 k (new) 4k. Notes that the Laffer Curve definitively demonstrates that tax rates which are too high reduce the incentive to work and the revenue generated by a particular tax and further notes that taxes can have wider, damaging consequences;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 l (new) source: PE-458.585
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2011/2056(INI) Effective Raw Materials Strategy for Europe
2011/05/30
INTA
5 amendments...
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Stresses the importance of trade in raw materials for economic growth and
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Commission to draw up
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Calls on the Commission to further develop raw materials traceability systems and to introduce a
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Calls on the Commission to take the necessary measures to ensure there is transparency on commodity markets
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8.
source: PE-466.972
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