Pornography

EDM number 27 in 1989-90, proposed by Michael Alison on 21/11/1989.

That this House views with grave concern the continued rise in sales, both covert and overt, of pornographic and obscene material; notes that such publications have a grossly degrading and damaging effect, particularly in their depiction of women and children; notes the increasingly extreme cruelty and violence involved in such material; believes that the anecdotal evidence is now overwhelming that this kind of stimulus is an important factor in encouraging criminal acts affecting innocent victims; and calls on her Majesty's Government to initiate an urgent study of the impact of pornography to update and supplement the limited research currently available and thereafter to implement urgently whatever measures are necessary to protect those who directly or indirectly suffer as a result of such perverting influences.

This motion has been signed by a total of 201 MPs, 2 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Michael Alison	21/11/1989	Selby		Proposed
Janet Fookes	21/11/1989	Plymouth Drake		Signed
Clifford Forsythe	21/11/1989	South Antrim		Signed
Maria Fyfe	21/11/1989	Glasgow, Maryhill		Signed
Llin Golding	21/11/1989	Newcastle-under-Lyme		Signed
Tommy Graham	21/11/1989	Renfrew West and Inverclyde		Signed
Anthony Grant	21/11/1989	Cambridge South West		Signed
Harry Greenway	21/11/1989	Ealing North		Signed
John Greenway	21/11/1989	Ryedale		Signed
David Alton	21/11/1989	Liverpool Mossley Hill		Signed
Mark Fisher	21/11/1989	Stoke-on-Trent Central		Signed
Peggy Fenner	21/11/1989	Medway		Signed
Margaret Ewing	21/11/1989	Moray		Signed
Dale Campbell-Savours	21/11/1989	Workington		Signed
Winston Churchill	21/11/1989	Davyhulme		Signed
Frank Cook	21/11/1989	Stockton North		Signed
Patrick Cormack	21/11/1989	South Staffordshire		Signed
Jim Cousins	21/11/1989	Newcastle upon Tyne Central		Signed
Geoffrey Dickens	21/11/1989	Littleborough and Saddleworth		Signed
Gwyneth Dunwoody	21/11/1989	Crewe & Nantwich		Signed
Kenneth Eastham	21/11/1989	Manchester, Blackley		Signed
John Evans	21/11/1989	St Helens North		Signed
Win Griffiths	21/11/1989	Bridgend		Signed
Donald Anderson	21/11/1989	Swansea East		Signed
Kevin Barron	21/11/1989	Rother Valley		Signed
Gerard Vaughan	21/11/1989	Reading East		Signed
Mike Watson	21/11/1989	Glasgow Central		Signed
Andrew Welsh	21/11/1989	Angus East		Signed
Ann Widdecombe	21/11/1989	Maidstone		Signed
John Wilkinson	21/11/1989	Ruislip - Northwood		Signed
Ann Winterton	21/11/1989	Congleton		Signed
Nicholas Winterton	21/11/1989	Macclesfield		Signed
Tony Worthington	21/11/1989	Clydebank & Milngavie		Signed
David Young	21/11/1989	Bolton South East		Signed
Malcolm Thornton	21/11/1989	Crosby		Signed
Jack Thompson	21/11/1989	Wansbeck		Signed
Roy Beggs	21/11/1989	East Antrim		Signed
Alan Beith	21/11/1989	Berwick-upon-Tweed		Signed
Vivian Bendall	21/11/1989	Ilford North		Signed
Gerry Bermingham	21/11/1989	St Helens South		Signed
Andrew Bowden	21/11/1989	Brighton, Kemptown		Signed
Gerry Steinberg	21/11/1989	Durham, City of		Signed
Ann Taylor	21/11/1989	Dewsbury		Signed
Matthew Taylor	21/11/1989	Truro		Signed
Teddy Taylor	21/11/1989	Southend East		Signed
William McCrea	21/11/1989	Mid Ulster		Signed
Ronnie Campbell	21/11/1989	Blyth Valley		Signed
Peter Pike	21/11/1989	Burnley		Signed
Alex Salmond	21/11/1989	Banff & Buchan		Signed
Colin Shepherd	21/11/1989	Hereford		Signed
Clare Short	21/11/1989	Birmingham, Ladywood		Signed
John Smith	21/11/1989	Vale of Glamorgan		Signed
Peter Snape	21/11/1989	West Bromwich East		Signed
Nigel Spearing	21/11/1989	Newham South		Signed
Peter Hardy	21/11/1989	Wentworth		Signed
James Hill	21/11/1989	Southampton, Test		Signed
Gerald Howarth	21/11/1989	Cannock and Burntwood		Signed
Joan Ruddock	21/11/1989	Lewisham, Deptford		Signed
Andrew Rowe	21/11/1989	Kent Mid		Signed
Robert Parry	21/11/1989	Liverpool, Riverside		Signed
Terry Patchett	21/11/1989	Barnsley East		Signed
Geoffrey Pattie	21/11/1989	Chertsey and Walton		Signed
James Pawsey	21/11/1989	Rugby & Kenilworth		Signed
William Powell	21/11/1989	Corby		Signed
Dawn Primarolo	21/11/1989	Bristol South		Signed
Joyce Quin	21/11/1989	Gateshead East		Signed
Tim Rathbone	21/11/1989	Lewes		Signed
Geoffrey Robinson	21/11/1989	Coventry North West		Signed
Ralph Howell	21/11/1989	North Norfolk		Signed
Roy Hughes	21/11/1989	Newport East		Signed
John Hume	21/11/1989	Foyle		Signed
Ray Michie	21/11/1989	Argyll & Bute		Signed
Rhodri Morgan	21/11/1989	Cardiff West		Signed
Alf Morris	21/11/1989	Manchester Wythenshawe		Signed
Emma Nicholson	21/11/1989	Torridge & West Devon		Signed
Bill O'Brien	21/11/1989	Normanton		Signed
Ian Paisley	21/11/1989	North Antrim		Signed
Julian Brazier	21/11/1989	Canterbury		Signed
Graham Bright	21/11/1989	Luton South		Signed
Alistair Burt	21/11/1989	Bury North		Signed
Thomas McAvoy	21/11/1989	Glasgow, Rutherglen		Signed
Paul Marland	21/11/1989	Gloucestershire West		Signed
Seamus Mallon	21/11/1989	Newry & Armagh		Signed
Andrew Hunter	21/11/1989	Basingstoke		Signed
Toby Jessel	21/11/1989	Twickenham		Signed
Charles Kennedy	21/11/1989	Ross and Cromarty and Skye		Signed
Archy Kirkwood	21/11/1989	Roxburgh & Berwickshire		Signed
David Lambie	21/11/1989	Cunninghame South		Signed
Ivan Lawrence	21/11/1989	Burton		Signed
Terry Lewis	21/11/1989	Worsley		Signed
Michael Lord	21/11/1989	Suffolk Central		Signed
Ken Maginnis	21/11/1989	Fermanagh & South Tyrone		Signed
Ronnie Fearn	22/11/1989	Southport		Signed
Harry Barnes	22/11/1989	North East Derbyshire		Signed
John Battle	22/11/1989	Leeds West		Signed
Dafydd Wigley	22/11/1989	Caernarfon		Signed
Alan Wynne Williams	22/11/1989	Carmarthen		Signed
Jimmy Dunnachie	22/11/1989	Glasgow, Pollok		Signed
Lawrence Cunliffe	22/11/1989	Leigh		Signed
Tom Cox	22/11/1989	Tooting		Signed
Alan Meale	22/11/1989	Mansfield		Signed
Robert Hughes	22/11/1989	Aberdeen North		Signed
Norman Hogg	22/11/1989	Cumbernauld & Kilsyth		Signed
Martin Smyth	22/11/1989	Belfast South		Signed
Marion Roe	22/11/1989	Broxbourne		Signed
Richard Alexander	23/11/1989	Newark		Signed
William McKelvey	23/11/1989	Kilmarnock & Loudoun		Signed
John McAllion	23/11/1989	Dundee East		Signed
Willie Ross	23/11/1989	East Londonderry		Signed
Ernie Ross	23/11/1989	Dundee West		Signed
David Nicholson	24/11/1989	Taunton		Signed
Audrey Wise	27/11/1989	Preston		Signed
Jack Aspinwall	27/11/1989	Wansdyke		Signed
Alice Mahon	27/11/1989	Halifax		Signed
John Stanley	27/11/1989	Tonbridge & Malling		Signed
David Shaw	27/11/1989	Dover		Signed
Nicholas Bonsor	28/11/1989	Upminster		Signed
David Blunkett	28/11/1989	Sheffield, Brightside		Signed
Diane Abbott	28/11/1989	Hackney North & Stoke Newington		Signed
Ian Bruce	28/11/1989	South Dorset		Signed
Rhodes Boyson	28/11/1989	Brent North		Signed
Bill Michie	28/11/1989	Sheffield, Heeley		Signed
Ian McCartney	28/11/1989	Makerfield		Signed
Martyn Jones	28/11/1989	Clwyd South West		Signed
David Hinchliffe	28/11/1989	Wakefield		Signed
Hilary Armstrong	29/11/1989	North West Durham		Signed
Christopher Gill	29/11/1989	Ludlow		Signed
Michael Colvin	29/11/1989	Romsey and Waterside		Signed
Eric Martlew	29/11/1989	Carlisle		Signed
Geoffrey Lofthouse	30/11/1989	Pontefract & Castleford		Signed
Roland Boyes	30/11/1989	Houghton and Washington		Signed
Frank Field	04/12/1989	Birkenhead		Signed
Alexander Eadie	04/12/1989	Midlothian		Signed
Ron Davies	04/12/1989	Caerphilly		Signed
Simon Coombs	04/12/1989	Swindon		Signed
Michael Clark	04/12/1989	Rochford		Signed
Jeremy Bray	04/12/1989	Motherwell South		Signed
Eric Illsley	04/12/1989	Barnsley Central		Signed
Bruce Grocott	04/12/1989	Wrekin, The		Signed
Richard Body	06/12/1989	Holland with Boston		Signed
Stephen Day	06/12/1989	Cheadle		Signed
Den Dover	07/12/1989	Chorley		Signed
Marcus Fox	07/12/1989	Shipley		Signed
Peter Fry	11/12/1989	Wellingborough		Signed
Max Madden	11/12/1989	Bradford West		Signed
David Mitchell	12/12/1989	North West Hampshire		Signed
Peter Griffiths	12/12/1989	Portsmouth North		Signed
Bill Cash	12/12/1989	Stafford		Signed
Peter Hordern	14/12/1989	Horsham		Signed
Patrick Thompson	14/12/1989	Norwich North		Signed
James Kilfedder	18/12/1989	North Down		Signed
Kate Hoey	19/12/1989	Vauxhall		Signed
John Gilbert	19/12/1989	Dudley East		Signed
George Foulkes	08/01/1990	Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley		Signed
Kim Howells	09/01/1990	Pontypridd		Signed
Richard Tracey	09/01/1990	Surbiton		Signed
Geraint Howells	10/01/1990	Ceredigion and Pembroke North		Signed
John Hannam	11/01/1990	Exeter		Signed
Dennis Turner	11/01/1990	Wolverhampton South East		Signed
Keith Vaz	11/01/1990	Leicester East		Signed
John Ward	11/01/1990	Poole		Signed
Charles Wardle	11/01/1990	Bexhill & Battle		Signed
Simon Burns	11/01/1990	Chelmsford		Signed
John Marshall	11/01/1990	Hendon South		Signed
David Howell	11/01/1990	Guildford		Signed
Tim Smith	11/01/1990	Beaconsfield		Signed
Ted Rowlands	11/01/1990	Merthyr Tydfil & Rhymney		Signed
Peter Robinson	11/01/1990	Belfast East		Signed
Raymond Powell	11/01/1990	Ogmore		Signed
Elizabeth Peacock	11/01/1990	Batley & Spen		Signed
Eddie Loyden	12/01/1990	Liverpool, Garston		Signed
Ron Leighton	15/01/1990	Newham North East		Signed
Trevor Skeet	22/01/1990	Bedfordshire North		Signed
James Couchman	22/01/1990	Gillingham		Signed
Bowen Wells	22/01/1990	Hertford & Stortford		Signed
George Howarth	25/01/1990	Knowsley North		Signed
James Spicer	29/01/1990	West Dorset		Signed
Alun Michael	06/02/1990	Cardiff South & Penarth		Signed
James Lester	12/02/1990	Broxtowe		Signed
Dudley Smith	13/02/1990	Warwick & Leamington		Signed
Elliot Morley	14/02/1990	Glanford and Scunthorpe		Signed
Eddie McGrady	20/02/1990	South Down		Signed
David Porter	27/02/1990	Waveney		Signed
Ken Livingstone	01/03/1990	Brent East		Signed
Tony Lloyd	01/03/1990	Stretford		Signed
Michael Mates	01/03/1990	East Hampshire		Signed
Ian Taylor	01/03/1990	Esher		Signed
Keith Raffan	08/03/1990	Delyn		Signed
Alan Williams	12/03/1990	Swansea West		Signed
Mark Wolfson	12/03/1990	Sevenoaks		Signed
Chris Mullin	13/03/1990	Sunderland South		Signed
Jim Sillars	14/03/1990	Glasgow, Govan		Signed
Gareth Wardell	14/03/1990	Gower		Signed
Roger Sims	21/03/1990	Chislehurst		Signed
Barry Sheerman	28/03/1990	Huddersfield		Signed
Richard Livsey	05/04/1990	Brecon and Radnor		Signed
Jimmy Hood	19/04/1990	Clydesdale		Signed
Stuart Randall	23/04/1990	Kingston upon Hull West		Signed
Keith Speed	14/05/1990	Ashford		Signed
Harold McCusker	Unknown			Withdrawn
Neil Hamilton	Unknown			Withdrawn

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