Export Of Torture Equipment

EDM number 389 in 1994-95, proposed by Ann Clwyd on 16/01/1995.

That this House is appalled by the recent allegations made in the television programme, Dispatches, broadcast on Channel 4 on 11th January 1995, that United Kingdom companies have supplied and continued to promote the sale of electric shock batons and other types of equipment, such as leg cuffs, to countries which have repeatedly been found to practise torture as regularly reported by Amnesty International; urges Her Majesty's Government to provide a detailed explanation of the apparent failure to take human rights considerations into account when allowing such trade; and further calls on Her Majesty's Government to review its laws and procedures to ensure that its legislation and regulations regarding the transfer of all security and police equipment avoid ambiguities and provide for the public disclosure of such transfers in advance, so that Parliament can exercise proper control, that such transfers are prohibited unless it can be reasonably demonstrated they will not contribute to torture and other human rights violations, that effective channels are established for Her Majesty's Government to receive information from non-governmental organisations on the human rights aspects of such transfers, and that the human rights situation of receiving countries is taken into account before any decision is made to export security equipment.

This motion has been signed by a total of 183 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Ann Clwyd	16/01/1995	Cynon Valley		Proposed
Michael Clapham	16/01/1995	Barnsley West & Penistone		Signed
Eric Clarke	16/01/1995	Midlothian		Signed
Michael Connarty	16/01/1995	Falkirk East		Signed
Jean Corston	16/01/1995	Bristol East		Signed
Ian Davidson	16/01/1995	Glasgow, Govan		Signed
Angela Eagle	16/01/1995	Wallasey		Signed
Llin Golding	16/01/1995	Newcastle-under-Lyme		Signed
Tony Worthington	16/01/1995	Clydebank & Milngavie		Signed
Dale Campbell-Savours	16/01/1995	Workington		Signed
Alan Meale	16/01/1995	Mansfield		Signed
Bridget Prentice	16/01/1995	Lewisham East		Signed
Barbara Roche	16/01/1995	Hornsey & Wood Green		Signed
Terry Rooney	16/01/1995	Bradford North		Signed
Clare Short	16/01/1995	Birmingham, Ladywood		Signed
Andrew MacKinlay	16/01/1995	Thurrock		Signed
Denis MacShane	16/01/1995	Rotherham		Signed
Alice Mahon	16/01/1995	Halifax		Signed
John McFall	16/01/1995	Dumbarton		Signed
John Evans	17/01/1995	St Helens North		Signed
Jimmy Dunnachie	17/01/1995	Glasgow, Pollok		Signed
Jim Dowd	17/01/1995	Lewisham West		Signed
Brian H Donohoe	17/01/1995	Cunninghame South		Signed
Terry Davis	17/01/1995	Birmingham, Hodge Hill		Signed
John Cummings	17/01/1995	Easington		Signed
Maria Fyfe	17/01/1995	Glasgow, Maryhill		Signed
Neil Gerrard	17/01/1995	Walthamstow		Signed
Norman Godman	17/01/1995	Greenock and Port Glasgow		Signed
Nick Ainger	17/01/1995	Pembroke		Signed
Win Griffiths	17/01/1995	Bridgend		Signed
Harry Barnes	17/01/1995	North East Derbyshire		Signed
Hugh Bayley	17/01/1995	York, City of		Signed
Paddy Tipping	17/01/1995	Sherwood		Signed
Mike Watson	17/01/1995	Glasgow Central		Signed
Keith Bradley	17/01/1995	Manchester, Withington		Signed
Elliot Morley	17/01/1995	Glanford and Scunthorpe		Signed
Bill Michie	17/01/1995	Sheffield, Heeley		Signed
Mike O'Brien	17/01/1995	North Warwickshire		Signed
Robert Parry	17/01/1995	Liverpool, Riverside		Signed
Gordon Prentice	17/01/1995	Pendle		Signed
Ernie Ross	17/01/1995	Dundee West		Signed
Peter Hardy	17/01/1995	Wentworth		Signed
John Heppell	17/01/1995	Nottingham East		Signed
Keith Hill	17/01/1995	Streatham		Signed
Robert Hughes	17/01/1995	Aberdeen North		Signed
Lynne Jones	17/01/1995	Birmingham, Selly Oak		Signed
William McKelvey	17/01/1995	Kilmarnock & Loudoun		Signed
Ian McCartney	17/01/1995	Makerfield		Signed
John McAllion	17/01/1995	Dundee East		Signed
Liz Lynne	17/01/1995	Rochdale		Signed
Elfyn Llwyd	17/01/1995	Meirionnydd Nant Conwy		Signed
Ken Livingstone	17/01/1995	Brent East		Signed
Malcolm Chisholm	18/01/1995	Edinburgh Leith		Signed
Tom Cox	18/01/1995	Tooting		Signed
Kenneth Eastham	18/01/1995	Manchester, Blackley		Signed
Mike Hall	18/01/1995	Warrington South		Signed
Gerry Steinberg	18/01/1995	Durham, City of		Signed
Dafydd Wigley	18/01/1995	Caernarfon		Signed
Alex Carlile	18/01/1995	Montgomery		Signed
Menzies Campbell	18/01/1995	Fife North East		Signed
Edward O'Hara	18/01/1995	Knowsley South		Signed
David Hanson	18/01/1995	Delyn		Signed
Joan Ruddock	18/01/1995	Lewisham, Deptford		Signed
Dennis Skinner	18/01/1995	Bolsover		Signed
Norman Hogg	18/01/1995	Cumbernauld & Kilsyth		Signed
Glenda Jackson	18/01/1995	Hampstead & Highgate		Signed
Helen Jackson	18/01/1995	Sheffield, Hillsborough		Signed
Alan Williams	19/01/1995	Swansea West		Signed
John Battle	19/01/1995	Leeds West		Signed
John Gunnell	19/01/1995	Leeds South and Morley		Signed
Bill Etherington	19/01/1995	Sunderland North		Signed
John Denham	19/01/1995	Southampton, Itchen		Signed
Nigel Jones	19/01/1995	Cheltenham		Signed
Eric Illsley	19/01/1995	Barnsley Central		Signed
Malcolm Bruce	20/01/1995	Gordon		Signed
Gerald Kaufman	20/01/1995	Manchester, Gorton		Signed
Simon Hughes	20/01/1995	Southwark and Bermondsey		Signed
Llew Smith	20/01/1995	Blaenau Gwent		Signed
Greg Pope	20/01/1995	Hyndburn		Signed
Audrey Wise	23/01/1995	Preston		Signed
Gerry Sutcliffe	23/01/1995	Bradford South		Signed
Lawrence Cunliffe	23/01/1995	Leigh		Signed
John Hutton	23/01/1995	Barrow & Furness		Signed
Roy Hughes	23/01/1995	Newport East		Signed
Alan Simpson	23/01/1995	Nottingham South		Signed
Martin Redmond	23/01/1995	Don Valley		Signed
Jim Wallace	24/01/1995	Orkney & Shetland		Signed
Dennis Turner	24/01/1995	Wolverhampton South East		Signed
Janet Anderson	24/01/1995	Rossendale & Darwen		Signed
Bryan Davies	24/01/1995	Oldham Central and Royton		Signed
Jeremy Bray	24/01/1995	Motherwell South		Signed
Alan Milburn	24/01/1995	Darlington		Signed
Martyn Jones	24/01/1995	Clwyd South West		Signed
Kim Howells	24/01/1995	Pontypridd		Signed
Barry Sheerman	24/01/1995	Huddersfield		Signed
Dawn Primarolo	24/01/1995	Bristol South		Signed
Paul Flynn	25/01/1995	Newport West		Signed
David Alton	25/01/1995	Liverpool Mossley Hill		Signed
Jack Thompson	25/01/1995	Wansbeck		Signed
Joan Walley	25/01/1995	Stoke-on-Trent North		Signed
Stephen Byers	25/01/1995	Wallsend		Signed
Stan Orme	25/01/1995	Salford East		Signed
Calum MacDonald	25/01/1995	Na h-Eileanan an Iar		Signed
Eddie Loyden	25/01/1995	Liverpool, Garston		Signed
Peter Kilfoyle	25/01/1995	Liverpool, Walton		Signed
Max Madden	25/01/1995	Bradford West		Signed
Tommy Graham	26/01/1995	Renfrew West and Inverclyde		Signed
Ray Michie	27/01/1995	Argyll & Bute		Signed
Brian Sedgemore	27/01/1995	Hackney South & Shoreditch		Signed
Lewis Moonie	31/01/1995	Kirkcaldy		Signed
Richard Caborn	01/02/1995	Sheffield Central		Signed
Jimmy Hood	02/02/1995	Clydesdale		Signed
Roland Boyes	02/02/1995	Houghton and Washington		Signed
Alistair Darling	02/02/1995	Edinburgh Central		Signed
Nick Harvey	03/02/1995	North Devon		Signed
Piara S Khabra	06/02/1995	Ealing, Southall		Signed
Judith Church	07/02/1995	Dagenham		Signed
Gerry Bermingham	07/02/1995	St Helens South		Signed
Matthew Taylor	07/02/1995	Truro		Signed
David Steel	08/02/1995	Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale		Signed
George Galloway	08/02/1995	Glasgow Hillhead		Signed
Sam Galbraith	08/02/1995	Strathkelvin & Bearsden		Signed
Thomas McAvoy	08/02/1995	Glasgow, Rutherglen		Signed
George Howarth	13/02/1995	Knowsley North		Signed
Don Foster	13/02/1995	Bath		Signed
Andrew Welsh	13/02/1995	Angus East		Signed
Roger Godsiff	15/02/1995	Birmingham Small Heath		Signed
Alex Salmond	15/02/1995	Banff & Buchan		Signed
Andrew Faulds	21/02/1995	Warley East		Signed
Adam Ingram	27/02/1995	East Kilbride		Signed
Don Touhig	27/02/1995	Islwyn		Signed
Clive Betts	28/02/1995	Sheffield, Attercliffe		Signed
Mike Gapes	28/02/1995	Ilford South		Signed
Robin Corbett	28/02/1995	Birmingham, Erdington		Signed
George Mudie	28/02/1995	Leeds East		Signed
Alf Morris	28/02/1995	Manchester Wythenshawe		Signed
Alan Keen	28/02/1995	Feltham & Heston		Signed
Paul Boateng	01/03/1995	Brent South		Signed
Nigel Griffiths	01/03/1995	Edinburgh South		Signed
Harry Cohen	03/03/1995	Leyton		Signed
Jon Owen Jones	06/03/1995	Cardiff Central		Signed
Andrew Miller	06/03/1995	Ellesmere Port & Neston		Signed
John Gilbert	07/03/1995	Dudley East		Signed
Paul Murphy	07/03/1995	Torfaen		Signed
Chris Mullin	07/03/1995	Sunderland South		Signed
Peter Shore	07/03/1995	Bethnal Green and Stepney		Signed
Mildred Gordon	08/03/1995	Bow and Poplar		Signed
David Clelland	13/03/1995	Tyne Bridge		Signed
Bill Cash	13/03/1995	Stafford		Signed
Anne Campbell	13/03/1995	Cambridge		Signed
Greville Janner	13/03/1995	Leicester West		Signed
Russell Johnston	14/03/1995	Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber		Signed
David Chidgey	14/03/1995	Eastleigh		Signed
Denzil Davies	14/03/1995	Llanelli		Signed
John Fraser	16/03/1995	Norwood		Signed
Robert Maclennan	20/03/1995	Caithness and Sutherland		Signed
David Young	21/03/1995	Bolton South East		Signed
Henry McLeish	22/03/1995	Central Fife		Signed
Robert Wareing	27/03/1995	Liverpool, West Derby		Signed
Alan Wynne Williams	27/03/1995	Carmarthen		Signed
George Foulkes	28/03/1995	Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley		Signed
Peter Hain	30/03/1995	Neath		Signed
Roy Beggs	03/04/1995	East Antrim		Signed
Ieuan Wyn Jones	05/04/1995	Ynys M		Signed
Ann Coffey	05/04/1995	Stockport		Signed
Stephen Timms	18/04/1995	Newham North East		Signed
John D Taylor	18/04/1995	Strangford		Signed
Jim Cunningham	18/04/1995	Coventry South East		Signed
Estelle Morris	18/04/1995	Birmingham, Yardley		Signed
John Maxton	18/04/1995	Glasgow, Cathcart		Signed
Giles Radice	18/04/1995	North Durham		Signed
Geoff Hoon	19/04/1995	Ashfield		Signed
George Stevenson	20/04/1995	Stoke-on-Trent South		Signed
Diane Abbott	27/04/1995	Hackney North & Stoke Newington		Signed
John Garrett	28/04/1995	Norwich South		Signed
Rachel Squire	01/05/1995	Dunfermline West		Signed
Martin O'Neill	01/05/1995	Clackmannan		Signed
Jane Kennedy	17/05/1995	Liverpool Broadgreen		Signed
Peter Pike	18/05/1995	Burnley		Signed
David Rendel	13/06/1995	Newbury		Signed
Geoffrey Robinson	10/07/1995	Coventry North West		Signed
Allan Rogers	10/07/1995	Rhondda		Signed
Derek Enright	Unknown			Withdrawn

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