Nuclear Weapons Expenditure And The Peace Dividend 1994

EDM number 29 in 1994-95, proposed by Llew Smith on 16/11/1994.

That this House believes that United Kingdom defence spending should be reduced to the average level of other West European countries, allied to constructive plans for defence diversification, arms conversion and the transfer of the savings made to social priorities by investment in job creation and economic development and the restructure of the United Kingdom's infrastructure; recognises the importance of making retraining of the defence sector workforce a priority; supports the call for the scrapping of the Trident submarine and weapons programme as an essential step towards eliminating nuclear weapons world-wide; notes with dismay the Government's decision to ringfence nuclear weapons in its front line first defence costs study; believes that in rejecting Trident the United Kingdom would demonstrate concrete support for strengthening the nuclear non-proliferation treaty prior to the review and extension conference for the treaty next April; recognises the importance of a successful outcome to the negotiations for a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty for the NPT; further believes that the lifetime costs of Trident deployment will be at least ú33 billion when re-fit, replacement and decommissioning are included; that it is the hidden extra costs of continuing the United Kingdom nuclear weapons programme, in health, environment as well as financial terms that have drastically damaged the peace dividend; and therefore calls on the Government to support the cancellation of Trident and to plan the investment of resources saved into job creation and industrial innovation in the British civil economy.

This motion has been signed by a total of 37 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Llew Smith	16/11/1994	Blaenau Gwent		Proposed
Audrey Wise	16/11/1994	Preston		Signed
Harry Barnes	16/11/1994	North East Derbyshire		Signed
Neil Gerrard	16/11/1994	Walthamstow		Signed
Jeremy Corbyn	16/11/1994	Islington North		Signed
Richard Burden	16/11/1994	Birmingham, Northfield		Signed
Ken Livingstone	16/11/1994	Brent East		Signed
Lynne Jones	16/11/1994	Birmingham, Selly Oak		Signed
Dennis Skinner	16/11/1994	Bolsover		Signed
Alan Simpson	16/11/1994	Nottingham South		Signed
Ken Purchase	16/11/1994	Wolverhampton North East		Signed
Peter Hain	17/11/1994	Neath		Signed
Mildred Gordon	17/11/1994	Bow and Poplar		Signed
Norman Godman	17/11/1994	Greenock and Port Glasgow		Signed
Bill Etherington	17/11/1994	Sunderland North		Signed
Malcolm Chisholm	17/11/1994	Edinburgh Leith		Signed
Bill Michie	17/11/1994	Sheffield, Heeley		Signed
Kevin Hughes	17/11/1994	Doncaster North		Signed
Robert Parry	17/11/1994	Liverpool, Riverside		Signed
Colin Pickthall	17/11/1994	West Lancashire		Signed
Tony Banks	18/11/1994	Newham North West		Signed
Dafydd Wigley	21/11/1994	Caernarfon		Signed
Terry Davis	21/11/1994	Birmingham, Hodge Hill		Signed
Ian Davidson	21/11/1994	Glasgow, Govan		Signed
Tom Cox	21/11/1994	Tooting		Signed
Helen Jackson	21/11/1994	Sheffield, Hillsborough		Signed
Glenda Jackson	21/11/1994	Hampstead & Highgate		Signed
Jack Thompson	22/11/1994	Wansbeck		Signed
Jimmy Dunnachie	22/11/1994	Glasgow, Pollok		Signed
Michael Connarty	22/11/1994	Falkirk East		Signed
Chris Mullin	22/11/1994	Sunderland South		Signed
Eddie Loyden	22/11/1994	Liverpool, Garston		Signed
Jean Corston	23/11/1994	Bristol East		Signed
Max Madden	24/11/1994	Bradford West		Signed
Alf Morris	24/11/1994	Manchester Wythenshawe		Signed
Harry Cohen	29/11/1994	Leyton		Signed
Elfyn Llwyd	15/12/1994	Meirionnydd Nant Conwy		Signed

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