Arms Industry And Civilian Manufacturing

EDM number 1100 in 1993-94, proposed by Lynne Jones on 21/04/1994.

That this House believes that the proportion of the United Kingdom's manufacturing base formed by arms manufacture is worryingly large, that the opportunity cost to the civilian economy of the arms industry is high and that, while a huge percentage of national research effort still goes on weaponry and highly skilled technicians are deployed in the defence industry, the chances of rivalling the Japanese or Germans in civilian exports are depleted at a time when vast new markets are opening in the East; and calls on the President of the Board of Trade to appoint a working party to look strategically at the future of the arms' trade and its place in the economy.

This motion has been signed by a total of 45 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Lynne Jones	21/04/1994	Birmingham, Selly Oak		Proposed
Liz Lynne	21/04/1994	Rochdale		Signed
Diana Maddock	21/04/1994	Christchurch		Signed
Anne Campbell	21/04/1994	Cambridge		Signed
Gerard Vaughan	21/04/1994	Reading East		Signed
George Walden	21/04/1994	Buckingham		Signed
Harry Barnes	22/04/1994	North East Derbyshire		Signed
John Evans	22/04/1994	St Helens North		Signed
Michael Clapham	22/04/1994	Barnsley West & Penistone		Signed
Richard Burden	22/04/1994	Birmingham, Northfield		Signed
Jim Dowd	25/04/1994	Lewisham West		Signed
John Cummings	25/04/1994	Easington		Signed
Harry Cohen	25/04/1994	Leyton		Signed
Alex Carlile	25/04/1994	Montgomery		Signed
Jim Wallace	26/04/1994	Orkney & Shetland		Signed
Tony Banks	26/04/1994	Newham North West		Signed
Jimmy Dunnachie	26/04/1994	Glasgow, Pollok		Signed
Terry Davis	26/04/1994	Birmingham, Hodge Hill		Signed
Lawrence Cunliffe	26/04/1994	Leigh		Signed
Michael Connarty	26/04/1994	Falkirk East		Signed
Chris Mullin	26/04/1994	Sunderland South		Signed
William McKelvey	26/04/1994	Kilmarnock & Loudoun		Signed
John McAllion	26/04/1994	Dundee East		Signed
Colin Pickthall	26/04/1994	West Lancashire		Signed
Robert Parry	26/04/1994	Liverpool, Riverside		Signed
Ernie Ross	26/04/1994	Dundee West		Signed
Alan Simpson	26/04/1994	Nottingham South		Signed
Kim Howells	26/04/1994	Pontypridd		Signed
Ken Livingstone	26/04/1994	Brent East		Signed
Mike Watson	27/04/1994	Glasgow Central		Signed
John Gunnell	27/04/1994	Leeds South and Morley		Signed
Malcolm Chisholm	27/04/1994	Edinburgh Leith		Signed
Keith Bradley	27/04/1994	Manchester, Withington		Signed
Martyn Jones	27/04/1994	Clwyd South West		Signed
Jeff Rooker	27/04/1994	Birmingham, Perry Barr		Signed
Neil Gerrard	28/04/1994	Walthamstow		Signed
Win Griffiths	28/04/1994	Bridgend		Signed
Derek Enright	29/04/1994	Hemsworth		Signed
John Heppell	03/05/1994	Nottingham East		Signed
Roger Godsiff	11/05/1994	Birmingham Small Heath		Signed
Edward O'Hara	18/05/1994	Knowsley South		Signed
Tommy Graham	18/05/1994	Renfrew West and Inverclyde		Signed
Nick Harvey	23/05/1994	North Devon		Signed
Llew Smith	26/05/1994	Blaenau Gwent		Signed
Bryan Gould	Unknown			Withdrawn

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