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Welsh Office Use Of Information Technology

EDM number 1122 in 1993-94, proposed by Rhodri Morgan on 26/04/1994.

That this House is appalled and astonished by the Secretary of State for Wales's backward approach to modern technology in communications as evidenced by his reply to a parliamentary question on the funding of NHS treatment centres in Wales by the honourable Member for Cardiff West on 19th April, Official Report, column 460, which referred to a Press statement made earlier that day by the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Wales; notes that the parliamentary answer was ludicrous to anyone taking an interest in monitoring the workings of the Welsh Office as the press release containing the statement was in fact embargoed until 20th April and was dispatched by post and not by E-mail or fax thereby delaying its arrival at the Library of the House or to the Press; understands that the Welsh Office is the only government department that does not send out its Press releases by E-mail or fax to the Library of the House and to the media beyond easy reach of Cardiff; call on the Government to ensure that Welsh Office Press releases are dispatched promptly and electronically so honourable Members can obtain information without delay, and are not disadvantaged by the absence in the House of any means of cross-checking or commenting on some of the more ludicrous claims which are the stock-in-trade of the Secretary of State's Press releases.

This motion has been signed by a total of 29 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Rhodri Morgan26/04/1994Cardiff WestProposed
David Hanson26/04/1994DelynSigned
Llew Smith26/04/1994Blaenau GwentSigned
Kim Howells26/04/1994PontypriddSigned
Jon Owen Jones26/04/1994Cardiff CentralSigned
Martyn Jones26/04/1994Clwyd South WestSigned
Paul Murphy26/04/1994TorfaenSigned
Paul Flynn26/04/1994Newport WestSigned
Nick Ainger26/04/1994PembrokeSigned
Win Griffiths26/04/1994BridgendSigned
Alan Wynne Williams26/04/1994CarmarthenSigned
Michael Connarty27/04/1994Falkirk EastSigned
John Cummings27/04/1994EasingtonSigned
Eric Clarke27/04/1994MidlothianSigned
Alan Meale27/04/1994MansfieldSigned
Ken Livingstone27/04/1994Brent EastSigned
Alan Simpson28/04/1994Nottingham SouthSigned
Barry Jones28/04/1994Alyn & DeesideSigned
John Evans28/04/1994St Helens NorthSigned
Janet Anderson28/04/1994Rossendale & DarwenSigned
Harry Barnes28/04/1994North East DerbyshireSigned
Alan Williams28/04/1994Swansea WestSigned
Derek Enright29/04/1994HemsworthSigned
Terry Patchett03/05/1994Barnsley EastSigned
John Heppell03/05/1994Nottingham EastSigned
Alex Carlile03/05/1994MontgomerySigned
Ian McCartney04/05/1994MakerfieldSigned
Jim Dowd04/05/1994Lewisham WestSigned
Mike Hall22/06/1994Warrington SouthSigned

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