Defence Diversification Agency

EDM number 783 in 1991-92, proposed by Maria Fyfe on 03/03/1992.

That this House welcomes the end of the cold war and the potential benefits that the peace dividend could bring to manufacturing and the wider community; notes however, that something in the region of 100,000 defence jobs have been lost since the Options for Change programme was announced just over 18 months ago, in addition to the 145,000 jobs which disappeared in the defence industries throughout the 1980s, a period of expansion in defence spending; further notes that this has meant disaster for local economies as well as for individual defence workers and their families and has replaced fear of the bomb with fear of the dole queue; further notes that the defence industry accounts for one in 10 manufacturing jobs and 10 per cent. of manufacturing output and that defence is located in the high technology industries which are essential for industrial regeneration making defence diversification a key issue of industrial policy; believes than an issue of this importance cannot simply be left to the market; notes that the reality of the Government's laissez faire approach is that companies are simply closing down their defence plants with no benefit to defence workers or to the industrial economy as a whole; recognises that Ministers have a responsibility to protect and enhance Britain's manufacturing economy, as well as a direct responsibility for workers employed by the Ministry of Defence, British industry's largest single customer; and calls on the relevant Ministers, as a matter of priority, to establish a Defence Diversification Agency to assist the industry in identifying and exploiting civil markets thus protecting jobs and the manufacturing base.

This motion has been signed by a total of 38 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Maria Fyfe	03/03/1992	Glasgow, Maryhill		Proposed
Doug Hoyle	03/03/1992	Warrington North		Signed
Ian McCartney	03/03/1992	Makerfield		Signed
Kevin McNamara	03/03/1992	Kingston upon Hull North		Signed
Richard Caborn	03/03/1992	Sheffield Central		Signed
Kenneth Eastham	03/03/1992	Manchester, Blackley		Signed
John Battle	04/03/1992	Leeds West		Signed
Harry Barnes	04/03/1992	North East Derbyshire		Signed
Bob Cryer	04/03/1992	Bradford South		Signed
Edward O'Hara	04/03/1992	Knowsley South		Signed
Bill Michie	04/03/1992	Sheffield, Heeley		Signed
Eric Martlew	04/03/1992	Carlisle		Signed
Robert Parry	04/03/1992	Liverpool, Riverside		Signed
Dennis Turner	05/03/1992	Wolverhampton South East		Signed
Tommy Graham	05/03/1992	Renfrew West and Inverclyde		Signed
John Cummings	05/03/1992	Easington		Signed
Frank Cook	05/03/1992	Stockton North		Signed
John McFall	05/03/1992	Dumbarton		Signed
Alice Mahon	05/03/1992	Halifax		Signed
Eddie Loyden	05/03/1992	Liverpool, Garston		Signed
Dennis Skinner	09/03/1992	Bolsover		Signed
Mike Watson	10/03/1992	Glasgow Central		Signed
Norman Godman	10/03/1992	Greenock and Port Glasgow		Signed
Lawrence Cunliffe	10/03/1992	Leigh		Signed
William McKelvey	10/03/1992	Kilmarnock & Loudoun		Signed
John McAllion	10/03/1992	Dundee East		Signed
Ernie Ross	10/03/1992	Dundee West		Signed
Audrey Wise	11/03/1992	Preston		Signed
Alexander Eadie	11/03/1992	Midlothian		Signed
Keith Bradley	11/03/1992	Manchester, Withington		Signed
Eric Illsley	11/03/1992	Barnsley Central		Signed
Dale Campbell-Savours	12/03/1992	Workington		Signed
David Clelland	12/03/1992	Tyne Bridge		Signed
Harry Cohen	12/03/1992	Leyton		Signed
Terry Davis	12/03/1992	Birmingham, Hodge Hill		Signed
Hilary Armstrong	12/03/1992	North West Durham		Signed
Roland Boyes	13/03/1992	Houghton and Washington		Signed
Gerry Steinberg	13/03/1992	Durham, City of		Signed

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