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Conduct Of The Secretary Of State For Wales (No. 3)

EDM number 1023 in 1993-94, proposed by Rhodri Morgan on 14/04/1994.

That this House welcomes the publication on 14th April of the legal notices commencing the Parliamentary Boundary Commission for Wales's public inquiries into new constituency boundaries as evidence that the Government has had to admit defeat in its attempts to gain parliamentary party advantage from the Local Government (Wales) Bill (Lords), now that the Bill has no prospect of receiving Royal Assent by 1st June 1994, the latest date by which the Bill could have triggered the Commission into taking account of the new boundaries of local government in determining the parliamentary constituency boundaries; and regards this outcome as the highly satisfactory denouement of three separate episodes of incompetence by two successive Secretaries of State for Wales, commencing with the delay in publication of the White Paper Cm 2155 on Local Government in Wales until 1st March 1993, by which time it was too late for legislation in that session, followed by introducing the eventual Bill first in another place in December 1993 and culminating in the failure to organise proceedings on the Bill after its First Reading on 7th March 1994 to achieve Royal Assent by 1st June, thereby proving that the Secretary of State for Wales cannot even organise his own carve-ups.

This motion has been signed by a total of 25 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Rhodri Morgan14/04/1994Cardiff WestProposed
Llew Smith14/04/1994Blaenau GwentSigned
Kim Howells14/04/1994PontypriddSigned
Paul Murphy14/04/1994TorfaenSigned
Paul Flynn14/04/1994Newport WestSigned
Win Griffiths14/04/1994BridgendSigned
Peter Hain14/04/1994NeathSigned
Norman Godman15/04/1994Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
Harry Barnes15/04/1994North East DerbyshireSigned
Janet Anderson18/04/1994Rossendale & DarwenSigned
Alan Williams18/04/1994Swansea WestSigned
Jim Dowd18/04/1994Lewisham WestSigned
John Cummings18/04/1994EasingtonSigned
Barry Jones18/04/1994Alyn & DeesideSigned
Ken Livingstone19/04/1994Brent EastSigned
Michael Clapham19/04/1994Barnsley West & PenistoneSigned
Michael Connarty19/04/1994Falkirk EastSigned
John Evans19/04/1994St Helens NorthSigned
Donald Anderson19/04/1994Swansea EastSigned
Tommy Graham21/04/1994Renfrew West and InverclydeSigned
Mike Hall21/04/1994Warrington SouthSigned
Jack Thompson21/04/1994WansbeckSigned
Dennis Turner21/04/1994Wolverhampton South EastSigned
Harry Cohen25/04/1994LeytonSigned
Martyn Jones27/04/1994Clwyd South WestSigned

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