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Commonwealth Day

EDM number 650 in 1989-90, proposed by Elizabeth Peacock on 05/03/1990.

That this House joins with all other parliaments throughout the Commonwealth in the observance of Commonwealth Day on Monday 12th March and in recognising that the Commonwealth continues to play an important role in promoting international co-operation and stability in a rapidly changing world; and notes that within the Commonwealth, the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association continues to serve the interests of Members by spreading knowledge and understanding of parliamentary democracy throughout the Commonwealth.

This motion has been signed by a total of 33 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Elizabeth Peacock05/03/1990Batley & SpenProposed
Peter Hordern05/03/1990HorshamSigned
Michael Jopling05/03/1990Westmorland & LonsdaleSigned
Gordon Oakes05/03/1990HaltonSigned
Martin Smyth06/03/1990Belfast SouthSigned
David Knox06/03/1990Staffordshire MoorlandsSigned
Ivan Lawrence06/03/1990BurtonSigned
John Marek06/03/1990WrexhamSigned
Michael Morris06/03/1990Northampton SouthSigned
George Foulkes06/03/1990Carrick, Cumnock and Doon ValleySigned
Jacques Arnold06/03/1990GraveshamSigned
John Cummings07/03/1990EasingtonSigned
Nicholas Winterton07/03/1990MacclesfieldSigned
Ronnie Campbell07/03/1990Blyth ValleySigned
Chris Smith07/03/1990Islington South & FinsburySigned
Andrew Smith07/03/1990Oxford EastSigned
David Shaw07/03/1990DoverSigned
Roy Hughes07/03/1990Newport EastSigned
Tony Lloyd08/03/1990StretfordSigned
Tom Cox08/03/1990TootingSigned
David Alton08/03/1990Liverpool Mossley HillSigned
Win Griffiths08/03/1990BridgendSigned
Bowen Wells08/03/1990Hertford & StortfordSigned
Peter Shore09/03/1990Bethnal Green and StepneySigned
Ian McCartney12/03/1990MakerfieldSigned
Andrew Faulds12/03/1990Warley EastSigned
Michael Shersby13/03/1990UxbridgeSigned
Greville Janner13/03/1990Leicester WestSigned
Jim Wallace13/03/1990Orkney & ShetlandSigned
James Wray13/03/1990Glasgow ProvanSigned
Peter Pike15/03/1990BurnleySigned
Geraint Howells15/03/1990Ceredigion and Pembroke NorthSigned
Alan Meale16/03/1990MansfieldSigned

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