Conduct of the Honourable Member for Livingstone and Backbenchers' Prerogatives

EDM number 412 in 1989-90, proposed by Jacques Arnold on 30/01/1990.

That this House condemns the unprecedented taking of backbenchers' rare prime debating time by a Front Bench member, namely the presentation of a Ten Minute Rule Bill by the honourable Member for Livingstone, Opposition Front Bench spokesman for Health, thereby usurping a backbencher's customary prerogative; and notes that this was done on an Opposition day, when the subject could have been selected for debate at length by the Opposition.

This motion has been signed by a total of 112 MPs, 3 of these signatures have been withdrawn.