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Gchq - Foreign Protest Letters

EDM number 354 in 1994-95, proposed by Alan Meale on 11/01/1995.

That this House notes that Her Majesty's Government has now received protest letters, either directly or via British embassies or high commissions throughout the world including from the FGFC of Luxembourg, Komba Gewerkshaft of Germany, European Union of Local Authority Staff, AFL-CIO and RWDSU of the USA, IRO-South America, CNPL-Brazil, Canadian Labour Congress, TUC Holland, Federation of Salaried Employees, and Novon of Holland, Telenisk Landsforbund of Norway and Denmark, KAD and Finasforbundet of Denmark, Sitese of Norway, FNA of France, STAL and STSN of Portugal, the FNPCP, CNE and LBC-NVK of Belgium, UCE of Finland, BEU Sarawak, UCIW of Trinidad, NUDA of South Africa, ESU of Malaya, Nufians of Swaziland, NUPW of Swaziland, NUPW of Barbados, FTU of Pakistan, Union of Australia, the All India Insurance Employees Federation, CSSU of Ireland and the Lord Mayor of Dublin the Right Honourable Tomas Macgiolla, all objecting to its ban on trades union recognition, membership and negotiating rights for people employed at the Government establishment of GCHQ; and calls upon Her Majesty's Government to end its discrimination immediately and to reinstate all those sacked workers who refused to take the Government's shilling and sell out their union rights.

This motion has been signed by a total of 160 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Alan Meale11/01/1995MansfieldProposed
Martin Redmond11/01/1995Don ValleySigned
John Heppell11/01/1995Nottingham EastSigned
Jimmy Hood11/01/1995ClydesdaleSigned
Kevin Hughes11/01/1995Doncaster NorthSigned
John McAllion11/01/1995Dundee EastSigned
William McKelvey11/01/1995Kilmarnock & LoudounSigned
Ronnie Campbell11/01/1995Blyth ValleySigned
Eric Clarke11/01/1995MidlothianSigned
Ann Coffey11/01/1995StockportSigned
Jimmy Dunnachie11/01/1995Glasgow, PollokSigned
Bill Etherington11/01/1995Sunderland NorthSigned
Neil Gerrard11/01/1995WalthamstowSigned
Tommy Graham11/01/1995Renfrew West and InverclydeSigned
Irene Adams11/01/1995Paisley NorthSigned
John Gunnell11/01/1995Leeds South and MorleySigned
Tony Banks11/01/1995Newham North WestSigned
James Wray11/01/1995Glasgow ProvanSigned
Colin Pickthall12/01/1995West LancashireSigned
Dennis Skinner12/01/1995BolsoverSigned
Peter Hardy12/01/1995WentworthSigned
Robert Hughes12/01/1995Aberdeen NorthSigned
Greville Janner12/01/1995Leicester WestSigned
Russell Johnston12/01/1995Inverness, Nairn and LochaberSigned
Lynne Jones12/01/1995Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
Ken Livingstone12/01/1995Brent EastSigned
Bill Michie12/01/1995Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Jeremy Corbyn12/01/1995Islington NorthSigned
John Denham12/01/1995Southampton, ItchenSigned
Jim Dowd12/01/1995Lewisham WestSigned
Nick Ainger12/01/1995PembrokeSigned
Harry Barnes12/01/1995North East DerbyshireSigned
Hugh Bayley12/01/1995York, City ofSigned
Paddy Tipping12/01/1995SherwoodSigned
David Winnick12/01/1995Walsall NorthSigned
Bridget Prentice16/01/1995Lewisham EastSigned
Ernie Ross16/01/1995Dundee WestSigned
Anne Campbell16/01/1995CambridgeSigned
Maria Fyfe16/01/1995Glasgow, MaryhillSigned
Win Griffiths16/01/1995BridgendSigned
Donald Anderson16/01/1995Swansea EastSigned
Mike O'Brien17/01/1995North WarwickshireSigned
Alice Mahon17/01/1995HalifaxSigned
Richard Burden17/01/1995Birmingham, NorthfieldSigned
Michael Connarty17/01/1995Falkirk EastSigned
John Cummings17/01/1995EasingtonSigned
John Evans17/01/1995St Helens NorthSigned
Norman Godman17/01/1995Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
Mike Watson17/01/1995Glasgow CentralSigned
Glenda Jackson18/01/1995Hampstead & HighgateSigned
Kenneth Eastham18/01/1995Manchester, BlackleySigned
Eric Illsley19/01/1995Barnsley CentralSigned
Nigel Jones19/01/1995CheltenhamSigned
Roland Boyes19/01/1995Houghton and WashingtonSigned
Greg Pope20/01/1995HyndburnSigned
Simon Hughes20/01/1995Southwark and BermondseySigned
Martyn Jones20/01/1995Clwyd South WestSigned
Andrew MacKinlay20/01/1995ThurrockSigned
Llin Golding20/01/1995Newcastle-under-LymeSigned
Peter Pike23/01/1995BurnleySigned
Raymond Powell23/01/1995OgmoreSigned
Brian Sedgemore23/01/1995Hackney South & ShoreditchSigned
Alan Simpson23/01/1995Nottingham SouthSigned
Piara S Khabra23/01/1995Ealing, SouthallSigned
Peter Kilfoyle23/01/1995Liverpool, WaltonSigned
John Marek23/01/1995WrexhamSigned
Alf Morris23/01/1995Manchester WythenshaweSigned
Bill Olner23/01/1995NuneatonSigned
Harry Cohen23/01/1995LeytonSigned
Frank Cook23/01/1995Stockton NorthSigned
Robin Corbett23/01/1995Birmingham, ErdingtonSigned
Jean Corston23/01/1995Bristol EastSigned
Tom Cox23/01/1995TootingSigned
Jim Cunningham23/01/1995Coventry South EastSigned
Frank Field23/01/1995BirkenheadSigned
Mildred Gordon23/01/1995Bow and PoplarSigned
Peter Hain23/01/1995NeathSigned
Mike Hall23/01/1995Warrington SouthSigned
Harold Walker23/01/1995Doncaster CentralSigned
Tom Pendry24/01/1995Stalybridge & HydeSigned
Joan Ruddock24/01/1995Lewisham, DeptfordSigned
Alex Salmond24/01/1995Banff & BuchanSigned
Kim Howells24/01/1995PontypriddSigned
Calum MacDonald24/01/1995Na h-Eileanan an IarSigned
Alan Milburn24/01/1995DarlingtonSigned
Andrew Miller24/01/1995Ellesmere Port & NestonSigned
Austin Mitchell24/01/1995Great GrimsbySigned
Bill O'Brien24/01/1995NormantonSigned
Keith Bradley24/01/1995Manchester, WithingtonSigned
David Clelland24/01/1995Tyne BridgeSigned
Margaret Ewing24/01/1995MoraySigned
John Battle24/01/1995Leeds WestSigned
Gerry Bermingham24/01/1995St Helens SouthSigned
Gerry Steinberg24/01/1995Durham, City ofSigned
Dennis Turner24/01/1995Wolverhampton South EastSigned
Jim Wallace24/01/1995Orkney & ShetlandSigned
Andrew Welsh24/01/1995Angus EastSigned
Tony Worthington24/01/1995Clydebank & MilngavieSigned
David Hanson25/01/1995DelynSigned
Dawn Primarolo25/01/1995Bristol SouthSigned
Joyce Quin25/01/1995Gateshead EastSigned
Barbara Roche25/01/1995Hornsey & Wood GreenSigned
Allan Rogers25/01/1995RhonddaSigned
Barry Jones25/01/1995Alyn & DeesideSigned
Gerald Kaufman25/01/1995Manchester, GortonSigned
Thomas McAvoy25/01/1995Glasgow, RutherglenSigned
Chris Mullin25/01/1995Sunderland SouthSigned
Edward O'Hara25/01/1995Knowsley SouthSigned
Stan Orme25/01/1995Salford EastSigned
Richard Caborn25/01/1995Sheffield CentralSigned
David Chidgey25/01/1995EastleighSigned
Jim Cousins25/01/1995Newcastle upon Tyne CentralSigned
Denzil Davies25/01/1995LlanelliSigned
George Foulkes25/01/1995Carrick, Cumnock and Doon ValleySigned
Mike Gapes25/01/1995Ilford SouthSigned
John Gilbert25/01/1995Dudley EastSigned
Jack Thompson25/01/1995WansbeckSigned
Joan Walley25/01/1995Stoke-on-Trent NorthSigned
Brian Wilson25/01/1995Cunninghame NorthSigned
Jeff Rooker26/01/1995Birmingham, Perry BarrSigned
Andrew Smith26/01/1995Oxford EastSigned
Peter Snape26/01/1995West Bromwich EastSigned
Helen Jackson26/01/1995Sheffield, HillsboroughSigned
Liz Lynne26/01/1995RochdaleSigned
Malcolm Bruce26/01/1995GordonSigned
Don Foster26/01/1995BathSigned
Tony Benn26/01/1995ChesterfieldSigned
Tessa Jowell27/01/1995DulwichSigned
Stephen Timms27/01/1995Newham North EastSigned
Eddie Loyden30/01/1995Liverpool, GarstonSigned
Judith Church30/01/1995DagenhamSigned
Derek Fatchett30/01/1995Leeds CentralSigned
John Fraser30/01/1995NorwoodSigned
Graham Allen30/01/1995Nottingham NorthSigned
Bruce Grocott30/01/1995Wrekin, TheSigned
Barry Sheerman31/01/1995HuddersfieldSigned
George Howarth31/01/1995Knowsley NorthSigned
Alan Keen31/01/1995Feltham & HestonSigned
Tam Dalyell31/01/1995LinlithgowSigned
David Alton31/01/1995Liverpool Mossley HillSigned
Roger Berry31/01/1995KingswoodSigned
Robert Parry01/02/1995Liverpool, RiversideSigned
Diana Maddock01/02/1995ChristchurchSigned
Menzies Campbell01/02/1995Fife North EastSigned
George Galloway02/02/1995Glasgow HillheadSigned
Geoffrey Robinson06/02/1995Coventry North WestSigned
Martin O'Neill06/02/1995ClackmannanSigned
Roger Godsiff07/02/1995Birmingham Small HeathSigned
Matthew Taylor07/02/1995TruroSigned
Clare Short08/02/1995Birmingham, LadywoodSigned
Margaret Hodge08/02/1995BarkingSigned
Clive Betts08/02/1995Sheffield, AttercliffeSigned
Seamus Mallon14/02/1995Newry & ArmaghSigned
Joe Ashton14/02/1995BassetlawSigned
Dale Campbell-Savours16/02/1995WorkingtonSigned
Adam Ingram22/02/1995East KilbrideSigned
John McWilliam27/02/1995BlaydonSigned
Don Touhig27/02/1995IslwynSigned
Dafydd Wigley23/03/1995CaernarfonSigned
Jane Kennedy18/07/1995Liverpool BroadgreenSigned

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