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Comprehensive School Closure Policy In Wandsworth

EDM number 1283 in 1989-90, proposed by Tom Cox on 16/07/1990.

That this House deplores the action of Wandsworth Borough Council in closing Chestnut Grove, Walsingham, John Archer and Battersea Park comprehensive schools as an example of the new brutalism of Conservative policy in Wandsworth, which will deprive large sections of South London of parental choice in co-educational and comprehensive education, since these four schools are to be replaced by two city technology colleges and one denominational magnet school with a music specialism; and further notes with particular concern the funding of one of the proposed city technology colleges by ADT Ltd., which recently took over Britannia Securities, in which a principal investor was Edward Lister, who chairs Wandsworth Education Committee.

This motion has been signed by a total of 41 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Tom Cox16/07/1990TootingProposed
Max Madden16/07/1990Bradford WestSigned
Stuart Bell16/07/1990MiddlesbroughSigned
Graham Allen16/07/1990Nottingham NorthSigned
Llin Golding16/07/1990Newcastle-under-LymeSigned
John Fraser16/07/1990NorwoodSigned
Paul Flynn16/07/1990Newport WestSigned
Terry Davis16/07/1990Birmingham, Hodge HillSigned
Ron Davies16/07/1990CaerphillySigned
Jim Cousins16/07/1990Newcastle upon Tyne CentralSigned
Tom Clarke16/07/1990Monklands WestSigned
Elliot Morley16/07/1990Glanford and ScunthorpeSigned
Rhodri Morgan16/07/1990Cardiff WestSigned
Alun Michael16/07/1990Cardiff South & PenarthSigned
William McKelvey16/07/1990Kilmarnock & LoudounSigned
John McAllion16/07/1990Dundee EastSigned
Eric Martlew16/07/1990CarlisleSigned
Eric Illsley16/07/1990Barnsley CentralSigned
Kate Hoey16/07/1990VauxhallSigned
Ernie Ross16/07/1990Dundee WestSigned
Dale Campbell-Savours16/07/1990WorkingtonSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe17/07/1990LeighSigned
John Evans17/07/1990St Helens NorthSigned
Alexander Eadie17/07/1990MidlothianSigned
Keith Bradley17/07/1990Manchester, WithingtonSigned
Bill Michie17/07/1990Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Alice Mahon17/07/1990HalifaxSigned
Peter Hardy17/07/1990WentworthSigned
Peter Pike17/07/1990BurnleySigned
Chris Smith18/07/1990Islington South & FinsburySigned
Alan Meale18/07/1990MansfieldSigned
John Cummings18/07/1990EasingtonSigned
Dennis Turner18/07/1990Wolverhampton South EastSigned
Audrey Wise18/07/1990PrestonSigned
Dennis Skinner19/07/1990BolsoverSigned
Ian McCartney19/07/1990MakerfieldSigned
Austin Mitchell19/07/1990Great GrimsbySigned
Bob Cryer19/07/1990Bradford SouthSigned
Harry Barnes19/07/1990North East DerbyshireSigned
John Battle24/07/1990Leeds WestSigned
Joan Ruddock26/07/1990Lewisham, DeptfordSigned

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