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Education Opting Out Ballots

EDM number 1339 in 1992-93, proposed by Alan Meale on 08/02/1993.

That this House notes the anti-democratic measures taken by the present Government to both influence opting out ballots and prevent opposition to such a direction from being able to present their argument in any campaign; is alarmed that the Government has (i) established rules applicable to such ballots that are interpreted so that parents who fail to vote are deemed to be in favour of opting out, (ii) arranged ballot rules so that a minority of parents of children who will be at the school when it opts out can determine the future of a school, (iii) proposed the abolition of second ballots to shorten the time schedule process, (iv) sanctioned the Department for Education to produce biased glossy and costly materials for parents to promote opting out and (v) used taxpayers' monies to produce expensive road shows whose purpose is to take schools out of the state sector; and calls upon Her Majesty's Government to cease this misuse of public funds and for a return to a system of fair government for education which will leave parents to make up their own minds about the future of their children's schools.

This motion has been signed by a total of 61 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Alan Meale08/02/1993MansfieldProposed
Dennis Skinner08/02/1993BolsoverSigned
Kevin Hughes08/02/1993Doncaster NorthSigned
Eric Clarke08/02/1993MidlothianSigned
Bill Etherington08/02/1993Sunderland NorthSigned
Jimmy Boyce08/02/1993RotherhamSigned
James Wray08/02/1993Glasgow ProvanSigned
Tom Cox09/02/1993TootingSigned
Jean Corston09/02/1993Bristol EastSigned
John Cummings09/02/1993EasingtonSigned
Jim Dowd09/02/1993Lewisham WestSigned
Jimmy Dunnachie09/02/1993Glasgow, PollokSigned
Kenneth Eastham09/02/1993Manchester, BlackleySigned
John Evans09/02/1993St Helens NorthSigned
Norman Godman09/02/1993Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
Harry Barnes09/02/1993North East DerbyshireSigned
Paddy Tipping09/02/1993SherwoodSigned
Michael Connarty09/02/1993Falkirk EastSigned
Dawn Primarolo09/02/1993Bristol SouthSigned
Ernie Ross09/02/1993Dundee WestSigned
Peter Hardy09/02/1993WentworthSigned
Geoff Hoon09/02/1993AshfieldSigned
Roy Hughes09/02/1993Newport EastSigned
Terry Lewis09/02/1993WorsleySigned
John McAllion09/02/1993Dundee EastSigned
William McKelvey09/02/1993Kilmarnock & LoudounSigned
Bill Michie09/02/1993Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Jack Thompson10/02/1993WansbeckSigned
John Gunnell10/02/1993Leeds South and MorleySigned
Derek Enright10/02/1993HemsworthSigned
Eric Illsley10/02/1993Barnsley CentralSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe10/02/1993LeighSigned
Ann Coffey10/02/1993StockportSigned
Michael Clapham10/02/1993Barnsley West & PenistoneSigned
Edward O'Hara10/02/1993Knowsley SouthSigned
Ken Livingstone10/02/1993Brent EastSigned
John Heppell10/02/1993Nottingham EastSigned
Martin Redmond10/02/1993Don ValleySigned
Bridget Prentice10/02/1993Lewisham EastSigned
Jamie Cann10/02/1993IpswichSigned
Glenda Jackson11/02/1993Hampstead & HighgateSigned
Keith Bradley11/02/1993Manchester, WithingtonSigned
Max Madden15/02/1993Bradford WestSigned
Roland Boyes15/02/1993Houghton and WashingtonSigned
Ronnie Campbell16/02/1993Blyth ValleySigned
Ian McCartney16/02/1993MakerfieldSigned
Martyn Jones16/02/1993Clwyd South WestSigned
Ken Purchase16/02/1993Wolverhampton North EastSigned
Alan Simpson18/02/1993Nottingham SouthSigned
Bill O'Brien23/02/1993NormantonSigned
Joe Ashton03/03/1993BassetlawSigned
Allan Rogers04/03/1993RhonddaSigned
Doug Hoyle04/03/1993Warrington NorthSigned
Dale Campbell-Savours04/03/1993WorkingtonSigned
Graham Allen10/03/1993Nottingham NorthSigned
Audrey Wise17/03/1993PrestonSigned
Jim Cunningham22/03/1993Coventry South EastSigned
Frank Cook23/03/1993Stockton NorthSigned
John McWilliam20/04/1993BlaydonSigned
Stephen Byers22/04/1993WallsendSigned
Jo Richardson12/05/1993BarkingSigned

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