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§ Mr. Donald Anderson (Swansea, East)It is my pleasure to present a petition about Sunday trading. The petition has been signed by a substantial number of Christian citizens of Swansea who are worried by the decision of the Attorney-General to take no action on illegal Sunday trading. They say that that amounts to a licence for the law to be ignored with impunity by those who wish to do so. It is also their view that the decision puts pressure on retailers who wish to obey the law to open on Sundays or suffer an unfair loss of their market share. They beieve that the decision of some major retailers to continue to defy the law constitutes a challenge to the rule of law, which the Government are wilfully ignoring.
Hence the petition calls on the House to take notice of the case urged by me and by other hon. Members from all parties and to require that the law be enforced until amended. The petitioners urge that it should be amended on the basis of the REST principles—that is, the principles advocated by the "Keep Sunday Special" campaign.
§ To lie upon the Table.