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Overstretch In The Army

EDM number 1353 in 1992-93, proposed by Nicholas Bonsor on 09/02/1993.

That this House welcomes the Government's recognition of the problem of overstretch in the Army with the decision, announced by the Defence Secretary on 3rd February, to restore two of the 14 United Kingdom infantry battalions to be cut under Options for Change and 3, 000 of the planned manpower cuts of 40,000, but is concerned that these measures will be inadequate to deal with the present scale of overstretch; further endorses the Second Report of the Defence Select Committee (HC 306) entitled Britain's Army for the 90s: Commitments and Resources calling for a halt to all infantry amalgamations; and invites Her Majesty's Government to implement the Report's findings and to honour undertakings given by Ministers at the time of the Options announcement that manpower reductions would be offset by better equipment.

This motion has been signed by a total of 78 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Nicholas Bonsor09/02/1993UpminsterProposed
John Home Robertson09/02/1993East LothianSigned
Neville Trotter09/02/1993TynemouthSigned
Bruce George09/02/1993Walsall SouthSigned
Nicholas Fairbairn09/02/1993Perth and KinrossSigned
Frank Cook09/02/1993Stockton NorthSigned
Michael Colvin09/02/1993Romsey and WatersideSigned
Winston Churchill09/02/1993DavyhulmeSigned
Menzies Campbell09/02/1993Fife North EastSigned
John McWilliam09/02/1993BlaydonSigned
Michael Lord10/02/1993Suffolk CentralSigned
Calum MacDonald10/02/1993Na h-Eileanan an IarSigned
Andrew Faulds10/02/1993Warley EastSigned
Jack Thompson10/02/1993WansbeckSigned
Gwyneth Dunwoody11/02/1993Crewe & NantwichSigned
Nicholas Winterton11/02/1993MacclesfieldSigned
Paul Tyler11/02/1993North CornwallSigned
Peter Temple-Morris11/02/1993LeominsterSigned
Matthew Taylor11/02/1993TruroSigned
Den Dover11/02/1993ChorleySigned
Allan Rogers11/02/1993RhonddaSigned
Martin Smyth11/02/1993Belfast SouthSigned
Barry Jones11/02/1993Alyn & DeesideSigned
Geoffrey Dickens11/02/1993Littleborough and SaddleworthSigned
Tom Cox11/02/1993TootingSigned
Patrick Cormack12/02/1993South StaffordshireSigned
Margaret Ewing12/02/1993MoraySigned
Ann Winterton12/02/1993CongletonSigned
Mark Wolfson12/02/1993SevenoaksSigned
Nigel Jones15/02/1993CheltenhamSigned
William McCrea15/02/1993Mid UlsterSigned
Peter Griffiths15/02/1993Portsmouth NorthSigned
Harry Greenway15/02/1993Ealing NorthSigned
Christopher Gill15/02/1993LudlowSigned
Mike Gapes15/02/1993Ilford SouthSigned
Roland Boyes15/02/1993Houghton and WashingtonSigned
Olga Maitland15/02/1993Sutton & CheamSigned
Andrew Hunter15/02/1993BasingstokeSigned
Joyce Quin15/02/1993Gateshead EastSigned
Keith Vaz16/02/1993Leicester EastSigned
John Spellar16/02/1993Warley WestSigned
Don Foster16/02/1993BathSigned
Llin Golding16/02/1993Newcastle-under-LymeSigned
Andrew Robathan16/02/1993BlabySigned
Greville Janner17/02/1993Leicester WestSigned
Edward O'Hara17/02/1993Knowsley SouthSigned
Jamie Cann17/02/1993IpswichSigned
James Couchman17/02/1993GillinghamSigned
John Gilbert17/02/1993Dudley EastSigned
Norman Godman17/02/1993Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
David Alton17/02/1993Liverpool Mossley HillSigned
Alan Beith17/02/1993Berwick-upon-TweedSigned
Vivian Bendall17/02/1993Ilford NorthSigned
Jim Wallace17/02/1993Orkney & ShetlandSigned
Dudley Smith17/02/1993Warwick & LeamingtonSigned
Nick Harvey18/02/1993North DevonSigned
James Hill19/02/1993Southampton, TestSigned
Julian Critchley19/02/1993AldershotSigned
Win Griffiths22/02/1993BridgendSigned
Lewis Moonie22/02/1993KirkcaldySigned
Michael Martin22/02/1993Glasgow, SpringburnSigned
Jane Kennedy22/02/1993Liverpool BroadgreenSigned
Peter Robinson23/02/1993Belfast EastSigned
Ray Michie23/02/1993Argyll & ButeSigned
Malcolm Bruce24/02/1993GordonSigned
Stephen Day24/02/1993CheadleSigned
John Gorst24/02/1993Hendon NorthSigned
Tommy Graham25/02/1993Renfrew West and InverclydeSigned
Roy Beggs25/02/1993East AntrimSigned
Ian Paisley26/02/1993North AntrimSigned
Bill Walker05/03/1993North TaysideSigned
George Stevenson11/03/1993Stoke-on-Trent SouthSigned
William Ross18/03/1993East LondonderrySigned
Ken Maginnis24/03/1993Fermanagh & South TyroneSigned
Mike Watson24/03/1993Glasgow CentralSigned
Andrew MacKinlay25/03/1993ThurrockSigned
William McKelvey02/04/1993Kilmarnock & LoudounSigned
Peter ViggersUnknownWithdrawn

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