Prime Minister And The Principle Of Subsidiarity

EDM number 111 in 1992-93, proposed by Alun Michael on 20/05/1992.

That this House notes with regret that the Prime Minister believes in the principle of subsidiarity only insofar as its application protects his own power against the intervention of European institutions and refuses totally to allow its application to protect the rights and powers of democratic decision-making either at a local level in each part of the United Kingdom or at the level of Wales, Scotland and the regions of England; believes that the principle of subsidiarity requires decision-making at the most local level consistent with efficient government; calls for this principle to be applied in such a way as to protect local democracy against the over-centralised exercise of power whether at regional, United Kingdom or European level; and believes that the failure of the Prime Minister to apply the principle of subsidiarity consistently constitutes a long-term threat to the unity of the United Kingdom.

This motion has been signed by a total of 129 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Alun Michael	20/05/1992	Cardiff South & Penarth		Proposed
Hilary Armstrong	20/05/1992	North West Durham		Signed
Peter Hain	20/05/1992	Neath		Signed
Maria Fyfe	20/05/1992	Glasgow, Maryhill		Signed
Alistair Darling	20/05/1992	Edinburgh Central		Signed
Tom Clarke	20/05/1992	Monklands West		Signed
Paul Murphy	20/05/1992	Torfaen		Signed
Mo Mowlam	20/05/1992	Redcar		Signed
Jon Owen Jones	20/05/1992	Cardiff Central		Signed
Lawrence Cunliffe	21/05/1992	Leigh		Signed
Jimmy Dunnachie	21/05/1992	Glasgow, Pollok		Signed
John Evans	21/05/1992	St Helens North		Signed
Norman Godman	21/05/1992	Greenock and Port Glasgow		Signed
Nick Ainger	21/05/1992	Pembroke		Signed
Win Griffiths	21/05/1992	Bridgend		Signed
John Battle	21/05/1992	Leeds West		Signed
Stuart Bell	21/05/1992	Middlesbrough		Signed
Jack Thompson	21/05/1992	Wansbeck		Signed
James Wray	21/05/1992	Glasgow Provan		Signed
Michael Connarty	21/05/1992	Falkirk East		Signed
Stephen Byers	21/05/1992	Wallsend		Signed
Alan Milburn	21/05/1992	Darlington		Signed
Allan Rogers	21/05/1992	Rhondda		Signed
Ernie Ross	21/05/1992	Dundee West		Signed
Peter Hardy	21/05/1992	Wentworth		Signed
Nick Harvey	21/05/1992	North Devon		Signed
John Home Robertson	21/05/1992	East Lothian		Signed
Eric Illsley	21/05/1992	Barnsley Central		Signed
Lynne Jones	21/05/1992	Birmingham, Selly Oak		Signed
John McAllion	21/05/1992	Dundee East		Signed
William McKelvey	21/05/1992	Kilmarnock & Loudoun		Signed
Alan Meale	21/05/1992	Mansfield		Signed
Bridget Prentice	22/05/1992	Lewisham East		Signed
Martyn Jones	22/05/1992	Clwyd South West		Signed
Mike Watson	02/06/1992	Glasgow Central		Signed
Bruce Grocott	02/06/1992	Wrekin, The		Signed
Llin Golding	02/06/1992	Newcastle-under-Lyme		Signed
Bill O'Brien	02/06/1992	Normanton		Signed
Rhodri Morgan	02/06/1992	Cardiff West		Signed
Dennis Turner	03/06/1992	Wolverhampton South East		Signed
Jean Corston	03/06/1992	Bristol East		Signed
David Clelland	03/06/1992	Tyne Bridge		Signed
Richard Burden	03/06/1992	Birmingham, Northfield		Signed
Edward O'Hara	03/06/1992	Knowsley South		Signed
Clive Betts	04/06/1992	Sheffield, Attercliffe		Signed
John Gunnell	04/06/1992	Leeds South and Morley		Signed
Eric Clarke	04/06/1992	Midlothian		Signed
Michael Clapham	04/06/1992	Barnsley West & Penistone		Signed
Martin Redmond	04/06/1992	Don Valley		Signed
Joyce Quin	04/06/1992	Gateshead East		Signed
Gordon Prentice	05/06/1992	Pendle		Signed
Tony Lloyd	08/06/1992	Stretford		Signed
Peter Pike	11/06/1992	Burnley		Signed
Tommy Graham	17/06/1992	Renfrew West and Inverclyde		Signed
Bill Olner	24/06/1992	Nuneaton		Signed
Jamie Cann	24/06/1992	Ipswich		Signed
Frank Cook	24/06/1992	Stockton North		Signed
Terry Davis	24/06/1992	Birmingham, Hodge Hill		Signed
Kenneth Eastham	24/06/1992	Manchester, Blackley		Signed
Derek Enright	24/06/1992	Hemsworth		Signed
Donald Anderson	24/06/1992	Swansea East		Signed
Janet Anderson	24/06/1992	Rossendale & Darwen		Signed
Gerry Bermingham	24/06/1992	St Helens South		Signed
Gerry Steinberg	24/06/1992	Durham, City of		Signed
Robert Wareing	24/06/1992	Liverpool, West Derby		Signed
Tony Worthington	24/06/1992	Clydebank & Milngavie		Signed
Tony Wright	24/06/1992	Cannock and Burntwood		Signed
Estelle Morris	24/06/1992	Birmingham, Yardley		Signed
Alf Morris	24/06/1992	Manchester Wythenshawe		Signed
Andrew Miller	24/06/1992	Ellesmere Port & Neston		Signed
David Hanson	24/06/1992	Delyn		Signed
Mike O'Brien	24/06/1992	North Warwickshire		Signed
Greg Pope	24/06/1992	Hyndburn		Signed
Giles Radice	24/06/1992	North Durham		Signed
Terry Rooney	24/06/1992	Bradford North		Signed
Joan Ruddock	24/06/1992	Lewisham, Deptford		Signed
Clare Short	24/06/1992	Birmingham, Ladywood		Signed
Dennis Skinner	24/06/1992	Bolsover		Signed
John McFall	24/06/1992	Dumbarton		Signed
Robert Litherland	24/06/1992	Manchester Central		Signed
Glenda Jackson	24/06/1992	Hampstead & Highgate		Signed
Kevin Hughes	24/06/1992	Doncaster North		Signed
John Spellar	24/06/1992	Warley West		Signed
Brian Wilson	25/06/1992	Cunninghame North		Signed
Hugh Bayley	25/06/1992	York, City of		Signed
Jim Cunningham	25/06/1992	Coventry South East		Signed
Roland Boyes	25/06/1992	Houghton and Washington		Signed
Alice Mahon	25/06/1992	Halifax		Signed
Calum MacDonald	25/06/1992	Na h-Eileanan an Iar		Signed
Doug Hoyle	25/06/1992	Warrington North		Signed
Jimmy Hood	25/06/1992	Clydesdale		Signed
Gavin Strang	26/06/1992	Edinburgh East		Signed
Robert Parry	26/06/1992	Liverpool, Riverside		Signed
Mike Hall	29/06/1992	Warrington South		Signed
Roger Godsiff	29/06/1992	Birmingham Small Heath		Signed
Neil Gerrard	29/06/1992	Walthamstow		Signed
Mike Gapes	29/06/1992	Ilford South		Signed
George Foulkes	29/06/1992	Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley		Signed
Lewis Moonie	29/06/1992	Kirkcaldy		Signed
Keith Hill	29/06/1992	Streatham		Signed
Doug Henderson	29/06/1992	Newcastle upon Tyne North		Signed
Harriet Harman	29/06/1992	Peckham		Signed
Terry Patchett	29/06/1992	Barnsley East		Signed
Max Madden	29/06/1992	Bradford West		Signed
Anne Campbell	30/06/1992	Cambridge		Signed
Bill Etherington	30/06/1992	Sunderland North		Signed
Sam Galbraith	30/06/1992	Strathkelvin & Bearsden		Signed
Joe Benton	30/06/1992	Bootle		Signed
Roger Berry	30/06/1992	Kingswood		Signed
Richard Caborn	30/06/1992	Sheffield Central		Signed
Henry McLeish	30/06/1992	Central Fife		Signed
Piara S Khabra	30/06/1992	Ealing, Southall		Signed
John Reid	30/06/1992	Motherwell North		Signed
Andrew Smith	30/06/1992	Oxford East		Signed
Clive Soley	30/06/1992	Hammersmith		Signed
Roy Hughes	30/06/1992	Newport East		Signed
Adam Ingram	30/06/1992	East Kilbride		Signed
Barry Sheerman	01/07/1992	Huddersfield		Signed
David Blunkett	01/07/1992	Sheffield, Brightside		Signed
Jane Kennedy	06/07/1992	Liverpool Broadgreen		Signed
George Stevenson	07/07/1992	Stoke-on-Trent South		Signed
John McWilliam	07/07/1992	Blaydon		Signed
John Heppell	08/07/1992	Nottingham East		Signed
George Howarth	09/07/1992	Knowsley North		Signed
Alan Keen	14/07/1992	Feltham & Heston		Signed
Helen Jackson	15/07/1992	Sheffield, Hillsborough		Signed
Chris Mullin	16/07/1992	Sunderland South		Signed
Ken Livingstone	19/10/1992	Brent East		Signed
Geoff Hoon	28/10/1992	Ashfield		Signed

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