Religious Conscience And The National Curriculum

EDM number 615 in 1989-90, proposed by David Alton on 26/02/1990.

That this House urges education Ministers, when drafting new measures to give effect to the use of technology in the context of the national curriculum, to have regard to the wishes of dissenting parents who ask for their children to be withdrawn from particular courses on account of sincerely held religious beliefs.

This motion has been signed by a total of 62 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
David Alton	26/02/1990	Liverpool Mossley Hill		Proposed
Jim Wallace	27/02/1990	Orkney & Shetland		Signed
Bill Cash	28/02/1990	Stafford		Signed
Martin Smyth	01/03/1990	Belfast South		Signed
Robert Hughes	01/03/1990	Harrow West		Signed
James Kilfedder	01/03/1990	North Down		Signed
Roy Beggs	01/03/1990	East Antrim		Signed
Ann Winterton	05/03/1990	Congleton		Signed
John Taylor	05/03/1990	Strangford		Signed
Peter Griffiths	05/03/1990	Portsmouth North		Signed
Alex Carlile	06/03/1990	Montgomery		Signed
Harry Greenway	06/03/1990	Ealing North		Signed
John Watts	07/03/1990	Slough		Signed
Nicholas Fairbairn	07/03/1990	Perth and Kinross		Signed
Tom Clarke	07/03/1990	Monklands West		Signed
Alan Meale	07/03/1990	Mansfield		Signed
Michael Lord	07/03/1990	Suffolk Central		Signed
Willie Ross	07/03/1990	East Londonderry		Signed
Peter Robinson	07/03/1990	Belfast East		Signed
John Gorst	08/03/1990	Hendon North		Signed
Richard Alexander	08/03/1990	Newark		Signed
John Hannam	09/03/1990	Exeter		Signed
Ronnie Fearn	12/03/1990	Southport		Signed
Lewis Moonie	12/03/1990	Kirkcaldy		Signed
David Porter	12/03/1990	Waveney		Signed
Ivan Lawrence	13/03/1990	Burton		Signed
Austin Mitchell	13/03/1990	Great Grimsby		Signed
Frank Cook	13/03/1990	Stockton North		Signed
Simon Coombs	13/03/1990	Swindon		Signed
Andrew Faulds	13/03/1990	Warley East		Signed
Henry Bellingham	13/03/1990	North West Norfolk		Signed
Richard Body	14/03/1990	Holland with Boston		Signed
Geraint Howells	15/03/1990	Ceredigion and Pembroke North		Signed
Paul Murphy	15/03/1990	Torfaen		Signed
Patrick Cormack	16/03/1990	South Staffordshire		Signed
Menzies Campbell	19/03/1990	Fife North East		Signed
Margaret Ewing	19/03/1990	Moray		Signed
Andrew Welsh	19/03/1990	Angus East		Signed
John Butcher	20/03/1990	Coventry South West		Signed
Ieuan Wyn Jones	20/03/1990	Ynys M		Signed
Barry Porter	20/03/1990	Wirral South		Signed
Keith Vaz	21/03/1990	Leicester East		Signed
Dafydd Elis Thomas	22/03/1990	Meirionnydd Nant Conwy		Signed
Stephen Day	26/03/1990	Cheadle		Signed
Michael Welsh	26/03/1990	Doncaster North		Signed
Keith Mans	27/03/1990	Wyre		Signed
William McKelvey	27/03/1990	Kilmarnock & Loudoun		Signed
Andrew Hunter	28/03/1990	Basingstoke		Signed
William McCrea	03/04/1990	Mid Ulster		Signed
John Wilkinson	18/04/1990	Ruislip - Northwood		Signed
Den Dover	20/04/1990	Chorley		Signed
Geoffrey Robinson	25/04/1990	Coventry North West		Signed
Roland Boyes	25/04/1990	Houghton and Washington		Signed
Robin Corbett	25/04/1990	Birmingham, Erdington		Signed
Gerard Vaughan	27/04/1990	Reading East		Signed
John Battle	15/05/1990	Leeds West		Signed
Max Madden	21/05/1990	Bradford West		Signed
Eddie McGrady	08/06/1990	South Down		Signed
David Blunkett	11/06/1990	Sheffield, Brightside		Signed
Barry Sheerman	25/06/1990	Huddersfield		Signed
Janet Fookes	09/07/1990	Plymouth Drake		Signed
Win Griffiths	Unknown			Withdrawn

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