Threat To Government Research Laboratories

EDM number 1029 in 1993-94, proposed by Michael Connarty on 14/04/1994.

That this House expresses concern at the rundown of the Scientific Civil Service and deplores the damage done by privatisation policies in the Department of Trade and Industry; notes that fewer than half, namely 286, of the scientists and engineers now remain at the National Engineering Laboratory in East Kilbride since it was designated for privatisation three years ago, that only 82 environmental scientists out of 160 transferred to AEA Technology from the Warren Spring Laboratory, Stevenage, on 1st April and that the organisation is earmarked for privatisation while plans have been announced in a written Answer from the Department of Trade and Industry on 14th May for private sector management in the Department's industrial research laboratories at Teddington, the Laboratory of the Government Chemist and the National Physical Laboratory and the National Engineering Laboratory; can see nothing in the experience of such policies to recommend this course to the Government; and calls on the Government to halt this process before it causes the destruction of the Scientific Civil Service.

This motion has been signed by a total of 100 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Michael Connarty	14/04/1994	Falkirk East		Proposed
Norman Godman	14/04/1994	Greenock and Port Glasgow		Signed
Mike Gapes	14/04/1994	Ilford South		Signed
Paul Flynn	14/04/1994	Newport West		Signed
Derek Enright	14/04/1994	Hemsworth		Signed
Angela Eagle	14/04/1994	Wallasey		Signed
John Denham	14/04/1994	Southampton, Itchen		Signed
Alistair Darling	14/04/1994	Edinburgh Central		Signed
Jim Cunningham	14/04/1994	Coventry South East		Signed
Jean Corston	14/04/1994	Bristol East		Signed
Ann Coffey	14/04/1994	Stockport		Signed
Diane Abbott	14/04/1994	Hackney North & Stoke Newington		Signed
Irene Adams	14/04/1994	Paisley North		Signed
Nick Ainger	14/04/1994	Pembroke		Signed
James Wray	14/04/1994	Glasgow Provan		Signed
Audrey Wise	14/04/1994	Preston		Signed
Joan Walley	14/04/1994	Stoke-on-Trent North		Signed
Gerry Steinberg	14/04/1994	Durham, City of		Signed
Roger Berry	14/04/1994	Kingswood		Signed
Gerry Bermingham	14/04/1994	St Helens South		Signed
Joe Benton	14/04/1994	Bootle		Signed
Tony Benn	14/04/1994	Chesterfield		Signed
John Battle	14/04/1994	Leeds West		Signed
Peter Hain	14/04/1994	Neath		Signed
David Clelland	14/04/1994	Tyne Bridge		Signed
Dale Campbell-Savours	14/04/1994	Workington		Signed
Anne Campbell	14/04/1994	Cambridge		Signed
Harriet Harman	14/04/1994	Peckham		Signed
Alan Simpson	14/04/1994	Nottingham South		Signed
Barbara Roche	14/04/1994	Hornsey & Wood Green		Signed
Ken Purchase	14/04/1994	Wolverhampton North East		Signed
Gordon Prentice	14/04/1994	Pendle		Signed
Bridget Prentice	14/04/1994	Lewisham East		Signed
Greg Pope	14/04/1994	Hyndburn		Signed
Terry Patchett	14/04/1994	Barnsley East		Signed
Peter Pike	14/04/1994	Burnley		Signed
Mike O'Brien	14/04/1994	North Warwickshire		Signed
John Heppell	14/04/1994	Nottingham East		Signed
Kate Hoey	14/04/1994	Vauxhall		Signed
Norman Hogg	14/04/1994	Cumbernauld & Kilsyth		Signed
Richard Burden	14/04/1994	Birmingham, Northfield		Signed
Nick Brown	14/04/1994	Newcastle upon Tyne East		Signed
Keith Bradley	14/04/1994	Manchester, Withington		Signed
Alf Morris	14/04/1994	Manchester Wythenshawe		Signed
Andrew Miller	14/04/1994	Ellesmere Port & Neston		Signed
Alan Milburn	14/04/1994	Darlington		Signed
Alun Michael	14/04/1994	Cardiff South & Penarth		Signed
John McAllion	14/04/1994	Dundee East		Signed
Calum MacDonald	14/04/1994	Na h-Eileanan an Iar		Signed
Adam Ingram	14/04/1994	East Kilbride		Signed
Hugh Bayley	15/04/1994	York, City of		Signed
Harry Barnes	15/04/1994	North East Derbyshire		Signed
Tony Banks	18/04/1994	Newham North West		Signed
Janet Anderson	18/04/1994	Rossendale & Darwen		Signed
Win Griffiths	18/04/1994	Bridgend		Signed
Jim Dowd	18/04/1994	Lewisham West		Signed
Lawrence Cunliffe	18/04/1994	Leigh		Signed
John Cummings	18/04/1994	Easington		Signed
Barry Jones	18/04/1994	Alyn & Deeside		Signed
Clive Soley	18/04/1994	Hammersmith		Signed
Jeff Rooker	18/04/1994	Birmingham, Perry Barr		Signed
Michael Clapham	19/04/1994	Barnsley West & Penistone		Signed
Eric Clarke	19/04/1994	Midlothian		Signed
Jimmy Dunnachie	19/04/1994	Glasgow, Pollok		Signed
John Evans	19/04/1994	St Helens North		Signed
Donald Anderson	19/04/1994	Swansea East		Signed
Paddy Tipping	19/04/1994	Sherwood		Signed
Alan Wynne Williams	19/04/1994	Carmarthen		Signed
Alex Carlile	19/04/1994	Montgomery		Signed
Bill Michie	19/04/1994	Sheffield, Heeley		Signed
Ernie Ross	19/04/1994	Dundee West		Signed
Peter Hardy	19/04/1994	Wentworth		Signed
Eric Illsley	19/04/1994	Barnsley Central		Signed
Glenda Jackson	19/04/1994	Hampstead & Highgate		Signed
Ken Livingstone	19/04/1994	Brent East		Signed
William McKelvey	19/04/1994	Kilmarnock & Loudoun		Signed
Alan Meale	19/04/1994	Mansfield		Signed
Mike Watson	20/04/1994	Glasgow Central		Signed
Edward O'Hara	20/04/1994	Knowsley South		Signed
Alice Mahon	20/04/1994	Halifax		Signed
Eddie Loyden	20/04/1994	Liverpool, Garston		Signed
Lynne Jones	20/04/1994	Birmingham, Selly Oak		Signed
Kim Howells	20/04/1994	Pontypridd		Signed
Rachel Squire	20/04/1994	Dunfermline West		Signed
Martin Redmond	20/04/1994	Don Valley		Signed
Dawn Primarolo	20/04/1994	Bristol South		Signed
Dennis Turner	21/04/1994	Wolverhampton South East		Signed
Jack Thompson	21/04/1994	Wansbeck		Signed
Mike Hall	21/04/1994	Warrington South		Signed
John Gunnell	21/04/1994	Leeds South and Morley		Signed
Roger Godsiff	21/04/1994	Birmingham Small Heath		Signed
Neil Gerrard	21/04/1994	Walthamstow		Signed
John Garrett	21/04/1994	Norwich South		Signed
Helen Jackson	25/04/1994	Sheffield, Hillsborough		Signed
Ian Davidson	25/04/1994	Glasgow, Govan		Signed
Martyn Jones	27/04/1994	Clwyd South West		Signed
Bill Etherington	28/04/1994	Sunderland North		Signed
George Galloway	29/04/1994	Glasgow Hillhead		Signed
Doug Hoyle	04/05/1994	Warrington North		Signed
Allan Rogers	25/05/1994	Rhondda		Signed

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