Motions

MOTION 1

This conference calls upon Her Majesty's Government to remedy the present situation whereby the self-employed who lose their income do not qualify for the financial package available to other workers.

Proposer: Dick Herzberg, Lincolnshire
Seconder: Brian Heward, Lincolnshire
Policy Respondee: Mike Cherry FSB Home Affairs Chairman

MOTION 2

This conference calls upon Her Majesty's Government to incentivise the self employed, businesses and employers to opt out of the publicly funded NHS system by making expenditure on health care premiums fully tax deductable and by ceasing to treat such premiums as a benefit in kind to employees.

Proposer: Steve Lodge, Devon
Seconder: Warwick Knowles, Devon
Policy Respondee: Bill Knox FSB Tax & Economic Affairs Chairman

MOTION 3

This conference opposes the deplorable use of secretive ‘pre-pack' deals in which disreputable companies and insolvency practitioners profit at the expense of honourable business owners and the Crown. Such pre-pack deals threaten the very viability of individual entrepreneurs and should be banned.

Proposer: Christina Norton, East Anglia
Seconder: Peter Martin, East Anglia
Policy Respondee: Ash Farag FSB Financial Affairs Chairman

MOTION 4

This conference calls upon Her Majesty's Government to instigate a Public Inquiry into the circumstances surrounding maladministration within both The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) and to investigate the full and far-reaching detrimental financial effects that the RPA has had on business over the past five years.

Proposer: Doug Balderson, Lincolnshire
Seconder: Rod Handford,Lincolnshire
Policy Respondee: Linda Walton FSB Rural Affairs & Tourism Chairman

MOTION 5

This conference deplores the practice of rollover contracts for business utility services and calls for legislation, so that any contract rollover longer than one month should require the customer to opt in.

Proposer: Terry Taber Essex
Seconder:David Barnes Essex
Policy Respondee: David Caro FSB Environment & Energy Chairman

MOTION 6

This conference calls upon HM Government to ensure that there is only one category of CRB checks recognised by all authorities.