Parliament Website

Iqbal Masih And The Plight Of Child Labourers (No. 2)

EDM number 1034 in 1994-95, proposed by Neil Gerrard on 26/04/1995.

That this House calls on the Government to convey to the Government of Pakistan its profound concern at the killing of Iqbal Masih, aged 12, on Sunday 16th April, to press the Government of Pakistan to conduct a full and impartial investigation into his murder and to bring those responsible to justice and to urge the Government of Pakistan both to safeguard the personal safety of members of the Pakistan Bonded Labour Liberation Front, with whom Iqbal Masih campaigned, and also to promptly and fully implement the provisions of the Bonded Labour System (Abolition) Act 1992, bringing to an end the continuing and widespread conditions of child servitude and adult debt bondage against which Iqbal Masih had campaigned.

This motion has been signed by a total of 49 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Neil Gerrard26/04/1995WalthamstowProposed
Colin Pickthall26/04/1995West LancashireSigned
Clive Soley26/04/1995HammersmithSigned
Alan Meale26/04/1995MansfieldSigned
Bill Michie26/04/1995Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Norman Godman26/04/1995Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
John Cummings27/04/1995EasingtonSigned
Diane Abbott27/04/1995Hackney North & Stoke NewingtonSigned
Jim Dowd27/04/1995Lewisham WestSigned
Michael Connarty27/04/1995Falkirk EastSigned
Harry Cohen27/04/1995LeytonSigned
Keith Bradley27/04/1995Manchester, WithingtonSigned
Lynne Jones27/04/1995Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
Robert Hughes27/04/1995Aberdeen NorthSigned
Dennis Skinner27/04/1995BolsoverSigned
Alan Simpson27/04/1995Nottingham SouthSigned
Denis MacShane28/04/1995RotherhamSigned
Alan Williams28/04/1995Swansea WestSigned
Clare Short01/05/1995Birmingham, LadywoodSigned
Peter Hardy01/05/1995WentworthSigned
Menzies Campbell01/05/1995Fife North EastSigned
Jimmy Dunnachie01/05/1995Glasgow, PollokSigned
John Battle01/05/1995Leeds WestSigned
Martin Redmond02/05/1995Don ValleySigned
Dennis Turner02/05/1995Wolverhampton South EastSigned
John Evans02/05/1995St Helens NorthSigned
Ian Davidson02/05/1995Glasgow, GovanSigned
Martyn Jones02/05/1995Clwyd South WestSigned
Keith Hill02/05/1995StreathamSigned
Terry Patchett02/05/1995Barnsley EastSigned
Michael Clapham02/05/1995Barnsley West & PenistoneSigned
Robert Parry03/05/1995Liverpool, RiversideSigned
Helen Jackson03/05/1995Sheffield, HillsboroughSigned
Andrew Faulds03/05/1995Warley EastSigned
Win Griffiths03/05/1995BridgendSigned
Harry Barnes03/05/1995North East DerbyshireSigned
David Steel04/05/1995Tweeddale, Ettrick and LauderdaleSigned
Anne Campbell04/05/1995CambridgeSigned
Eddie Loyden04/05/1995Liverpool, GarstonSigned
Terry Davis10/05/1995Birmingham, Hodge HillSigned
Mike Hall10/05/1995Warrington SouthSigned
Audrey Wise10/05/1995PrestonSigned
Ken Livingstone17/05/1995Brent EastSigned
Kate Hoey28/06/1995VauxhallSigned
Peter Kilfoyle29/06/1995Liverpool, WaltonSigned
Paul Flynn29/06/1995Newport WestSigned
Kim Howells11/07/1995PontypriddSigned
Roy Beggs14/07/1995East AntrimSigned
Derek EnrightUnknownWithdrawn

Download raw data as csv or xml.