Treatment Of Widows Of Servicemen

EDM number 2 in 1989-90, proposed by John McWilliam on 21/11/1989.

That this House recognises the unfair treatment of war widows of the servicemen who retired before 31st March 1973 and those widows who married their husbands after their retirement from the armed forces both prior and subsequent to the 6th April 1978; and urges Her Majesty's Government to remove these artificial time bars in order that all war widows and widows of servicemen may receive the current rate for those pensions irrespective of the date of their husband's retirement or the date of their marriage.

This motion has been signed by a total of 158 MPs, 17 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
John McWilliam	21/11/1989	Blaydon		Proposed
Jim Wallace	21/11/1989	Orkney & Shetland		Signed
Joe Ashton	21/11/1989	Bassetlaw		Signed
Dick Douglas	21/11/1989	Dunfermline West		Signed
Alf Morris	21/11/1989	Manchester Wythenshawe		Signed
Iain Mills	21/11/1989	Meriden		Signed
Michael Mates	21/11/1989	East Hampshire		Signed
Jonathan Sayeed	21/11/1989	Bristol East		Signed
John Evans	22/11/1989	St Helens North		Signed
Ronnie Fearn	22/11/1989	Southport		Signed
Jack Aspinwall	22/11/1989	Wansdyke		Signed
Harry Barnes	22/11/1989	North East Derbyshire		Signed
Andrew Bowden	22/11/1989	Brighton, Kemptown		Signed
Keith Vaz	22/11/1989	Leicester East		Signed
Dafydd Wigley	22/11/1989	Caernarfon		Signed
Alan Williams	22/11/1989	Swansea West		Signed
Terry Davis	22/11/1989	Birmingham, Hodge Hill		Signed
Lawrence Cunliffe	22/11/1989	Leigh		Signed
Tim Rathbone	22/11/1989	Lewes		Signed
Chris Smith	22/11/1989	Islington South & Finsbury		Signed
Martin Smyth	22/11/1989	Belfast South		Signed
Norman Hogg	22/11/1989	Cumbernauld & Kilsyth		Signed
Robert Hughes	22/11/1989	Aberdeen North		Signed
David Knox	22/11/1989	Staffordshire Moorlands		Signed
Gordon Oakes	22/11/1989	Halton		Signed
Tom Cox	22/11/1989	Tooting		Signed
William McCrea	23/11/1989	Mid Ulster		Signed
David Steel	23/11/1989	Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale		Signed
Michael Morris	23/11/1989	Northampton South		Signed
Alun Michael	23/11/1989	Cardiff South & Penarth		Signed
Alan Meale	23/11/1989	Mansfield		Signed
David Martin	23/11/1989	Portsmouth South		Signed
David Lambie	23/11/1989	Cunninghame South		Signed
Greville Janner	23/11/1989	Leicester West		Signed
Robert Hicks	23/11/1989	South East Cornwall		Signed
Peter Hardy	23/11/1989	Wentworth		Signed
Hugh Dykes	24/11/1989	Harrow East		Signed
David Nicholson	24/11/1989	Taunton		Signed
Audrey Wise	27/11/1989	Preston		Signed
Dennis Turner	27/11/1989	Wolverhampton South East		Signed
Donald Anderson	27/11/1989	Swansea East		Signed
John Gilbert	27/11/1989	Dudley East		Signed
Alexander Eadie	27/11/1989	Midlothian		Signed
Jim Cousins	27/11/1989	Newcastle upon Tyne Central		Signed
Ted Rowlands	27/11/1989	Merthyr Tydfil & Rhymney		Signed
John Home Robertson	27/11/1989	East Lothian		Signed
James Kilfedder	27/11/1989	North Down		Signed
Ian Bruce	27/11/1989	South Dorset		Signed
Gerry Steinberg	28/11/1989	Durham, City of		Signed
Roy Beggs	28/11/1989	East Antrim		Signed
Richard Alexander	28/11/1989	Newark		Signed
Maria Fyfe	28/11/1989	Glasgow, Maryhill		Signed
Ron Davies	28/11/1989	Caerphilly		Signed
Ray Michie	28/11/1989	Argyll & Bute		Signed
John McFall	28/11/1989	Dumbarton		Signed
Archy Kirkwood	28/11/1989	Roxburgh & Berwickshire		Signed
Russell Johnston	28/11/1989	Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber		Signed
Simon Hughes	28/11/1989	Southwark and Bermondsey		Signed
Jerry Hayes	28/11/1989	Harlow		Signed
David Alton	29/11/1989	Liverpool Mossley Hill		Signed
Tommy Graham	29/11/1989	Renfrew West and Inverclyde		Signed
Llin Golding	29/11/1989	Newcastle-under-Lyme		Signed
John Garrett	29/11/1989	Norwich South		Signed
John Fraser	29/11/1989	Norwood		Signed
Andrew Faulds	29/11/1989	Warley East		Signed
Bruce Grocott	29/11/1989	Wrekin, The		Signed
Hilary Armstrong	29/11/1989	North West Durham		Signed
Paddy Ashdown	29/11/1989	Yeovil		Signed
Alan Beith	29/11/1989	Berwick-upon-Tweed		Signed
Stuart Bell	29/11/1989	Middlesbrough		Signed
Matthew Taylor	29/11/1989	Truro		Signed
Jack Thompson	29/11/1989	Wansbeck		Signed
Gareth Wardell	29/11/1989	Gower		Signed
Alistair Darling	29/11/1989	Edinburgh Central		Signed
Robin Corbett	29/11/1989	Birmingham, Erdington		Signed
Menzies Campbell	29/11/1989	Fife North East		Signed
Elizabeth Peacock	29/11/1989	Batley & Spen		Signed
Keith Raffan	29/11/1989	Delyn		Signed
Jeff Rooker	29/11/1989	Birmingham, Perry Barr		Signed
Jim Sillars	29/11/1989	Glasgow, Govan		Signed
Peter Hordern	29/11/1989	Horsham		Signed
George Howarth	29/11/1989	Knowsley North		Signed
Geraint Howells	29/11/1989	Ceredigion and Pembroke North		Signed
Doug Hoyle	29/11/1989	Warrington North		Signed
Charles Kennedy	29/11/1989	Ross and Cromarty and Skye		Signed
Emma Nicholson	29/11/1989	Torridge & West Devon		Signed
Paul Murphy	29/11/1989	Torfaen		Signed
Lewis Moonie	29/11/1989	Kirkcaldy		Signed
Austin Mitchell	29/11/1989	Great Grimsby		Signed
Eric Martlew	29/11/1989	Carlisle		Signed
David Marshall	29/11/1989	Glasgow, Shettleston		Signed
John Wilkinson	30/11/1989	Ruislip - Northwood		Signed
Cecil Walker	30/11/1989	Belfast North		Signed
Gerry Bermingham	30/11/1989	St Helens South		Signed
Kevin Barron	30/11/1989	Rother Valley		Signed
George Galloway	30/11/1989	Glasgow Hillhead		Signed
Harry Ewing	30/11/1989	Falkirk East		Signed
David Clelland	30/11/1989	Tyne Bridge		Signed
Giles Shaw	30/11/1989	Pudsey		Signed
Keith Speed	30/11/1989	Ashford		Signed
David Hinchliffe	30/11/1989	Wakefield		Signed
Eddie Loyden	30/11/1989	Liverpool, Garston		Signed
Roland Boyes	30/11/1989	Houghton and Washington		Signed
Richard Caborn	30/11/1989	Sheffield Central		Signed
Paul Boateng	01/12/1989	Brent South		Signed
John Marek	04/12/1989	Wrexham		Signed
Chris Mullin	04/12/1989	Sunderland South		Signed
Bill O'Brien	04/12/1989	Normanton		Signed
Ann Taylor	04/12/1989	Dewsbury		Signed
David Winnick	04/12/1989	Walsall North		Signed
Eric Illsley	04/12/1989	Barnsley Central		Signed
Roy Hughes	04/12/1989	Newport East		Signed
Alan Haselhurst	04/12/1989	Saffron Walden		Signed
Peter Snape	04/12/1989	West Bromwich East		Signed
John Smith	04/12/1989	Vale of Glamorgan		Signed
Dudley Smith	04/12/1989	Warwick & Leamington		Signed
Joyce Quin	04/12/1989	Gateshead East		Signed
Tom Pendry	04/12/1989	Stalybridge & Hyde		Signed
James Pawsey	04/12/1989	Rugby & Kenilworth		Signed
Andrew Hunter	05/12/1989	Basingstoke		Signed
Bob Dunn	05/12/1989	Dartford		Signed
Hector Monro	05/12/1989	Dumfries		Signed
Robert Maclennan	05/12/1989	Caithness and Sutherland		Signed
Andrew Smith	05/12/1989	Oxford East		Signed
Michael Martin	06/12/1989	Glasgow, Springburn		Signed
Brian Wilson	06/12/1989	Cunninghame North		Signed
Gavin Strang	06/12/1989	Edinburgh East		Signed
Tony Benn	06/12/1989	Chesterfield		Signed
Thomas McAvoy	06/12/1989	Glasgow, Rutherglen		Signed
Ron Leighton	06/12/1989	Newham North East		Signed
George Walden	07/12/1989	Buckingham		Signed
Mike Watson	07/12/1989	Glasgow Central		Signed
Raymond Powell	07/12/1989	Ogmore		Signed
Clive Soley	08/12/1989	Hammersmith		Signed
Tony Worthington	08/12/1989	Clydebank & Milngavie		Signed
Derek Fatchett	11/12/1989	Leeds Central		Signed
Alex Carlile	12/12/1989	Montgomery		Signed
Den Dover	13/12/1989	Chorley		Signed
Sam Galbraith	14/12/1989	Strathkelvin & Bearsden		Signed
Doug Henderson	18/12/1989	Newcastle upon Tyne North		Signed
Barry Sheerman	17/01/1990	Huddersfield		Signed
William Powell	Unknown			Withdrawn
Tim Smith	Unknown			Withdrawn
Norman Buchan	Unknown			Withdrawn
Tim Devlin	Unknown			Withdrawn
Roger Gale	Unknown			Withdrawn
John Ward	Unknown			Withdrawn
Malcolm Thornton	Unknown			Withdrawn
William Cash	Unknown			Withdrawn
Harry Greenway	Unknown			Withdrawn
Rupert Allason	Unknown			Withdrawn
Ray Whitney	Unknown			Withdrawn
David Porter	Unknown			Withdrawn
Roger Knapman	Unknown			Withdrawn
Keith Mans	Unknown			Withdrawn
Barry Field	Unknown			Withdrawn
Ian Taylor	Unknown			Withdrawn
Diane Abbott	Unknown			Withdrawn

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