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UK Ratification Of Chemical Weapons Convention

EDM number 738 in 1994-95, proposed by Mike Gapes on 07/03/1995.

That this House congratulates Her Majesty's Government on the central part it played towards the negotiation of the Chemical Weapons Convention which bans the acquisition, development, production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons, and which her Majesty's Government signed in January 1993; fully supports the United Kingdom's commitment, first made at the G7 Summit in 1991, to become an original State Party to the Chemical Weapons Convention; notes that the Convention cannot enter into force until 180 days after 65 states have ratified and deposited their instruments of ratification with the Secretary-General of the UN; notes that as of the end of January 22 of the 159 signatory states had already deposited their instruments of ratification; views with concern that the United Kingdom has yet to ratify the Convention; notes further that Her Majesty's Government cannot ratify the Convention until enabling legislation has been brought forward by the Department of Trade and Industry and passed by Parliament; is concerned that the Department of Trade and Industry has no plans to do so in the current parliamentary session; understands that there is widespread support for the Convention amongst the main political parties at Westminster; welcomes the publication by the Department of Trade and Industry of a consultation document for the chemical industry regarding the implementation of the Convention in the United Kingdom; and urges the Department of Trade and Industry to bring forward the necessary legislation as a matter of urgency to demonstrate that chemical weapons arms control remains a high priority for the United Kingdom and to ensure that the United Kingdom does indeed become an original State Party to the Convention.

This motion has been signed by a total of 121 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Mike Gapes07/03/1995Ilford SouthProposed
James Lester07/03/1995BroxtoweSigned
Menzies Campbell07/03/1995Fife North EastSigned
Harry Barnes07/03/1995North East DerbyshireSigned
Colin Pickthall08/03/1995West LancashireSigned
Peter Hardy08/03/1995WentworthSigned
Lynne Jones08/03/1995Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
Alan Meale08/03/1995MansfieldSigned
Eric Clarke08/03/1995MidlothianSigned
Michael Connarty08/03/1995Falkirk EastSigned
Terry Davis08/03/1995Birmingham, Hodge HillSigned
Jim Dowd08/03/1995Lewisham WestSigned
John Evans08/03/1995St Helens NorthSigned
Mike Hall08/03/1995Warrington SouthSigned
Paddy Tipping08/03/1995SherwoodSigned
Dennis Turner08/03/1995Wolverhampton South EastSigned
Alan Simpson09/03/1995Nottingham SouthSigned
Nick Harvey09/03/1995North DevonSigned
Jim Wallace09/03/1995Orkney & ShetlandSigned
Anne Campbell13/03/1995CambridgeSigned
Keith Vaz13/03/1995Leicester EastSigned
Audrey Wise13/03/1995PrestonSigned
Russell Johnston14/03/1995Inverness, Nairn and LochaberSigned
Keith Bradley14/03/1995Manchester, WithingtonSigned
Michael Clapham14/03/1995Barnsley West & PenistoneSigned
Jean Corston14/03/1995Bristol EastSigned
Elliot Morley15/03/1995Glanford and ScunthorpeSigned
Frank Cook15/03/1995Stockton NorthSigned
Tam Dalyell15/03/1995LinlithgowSigned
Tim Rathbone16/03/1995LewesSigned
Elfyn Llwyd16/03/1995Meirionnydd Nant ConwySigned
Ray Michie16/03/1995Argyll & ButeSigned
Neil Gerrard16/03/1995WalthamstowSigned
Mike O'Brien20/03/1995North WarwickshireSigned
Peter Pike20/03/1995BurnleySigned
Bridget Prentice20/03/1995Lewisham EastSigned
Ken Purchase20/03/1995Wolverhampton North EastSigned
Ernie Ross20/03/1995Dundee WestSigned
Joan Ruddock20/03/1995Lewisham, DeptfordSigned
John Spellar20/03/1995Warley WestSigned
John Heppell20/03/1995Nottingham EastSigned
Norman Hogg20/03/1995Cumbernauld & KilsythSigned
Simon Hughes20/03/1995Southwark and BermondseySigned
Alan Keen20/03/1995Feltham & HestonSigned
Alice Mahon20/03/1995HalifaxSigned
John Maxton20/03/1995Glasgow, CathcartSigned
John McAllion20/03/1995Dundee EastSigned
William McKelvey20/03/1995Kilmarnock & LoudounSigned
Bill Michie20/03/1995Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Lewis Moonie20/03/1995KirkcaldySigned
Chris Mullin20/03/1995Sunderland SouthSigned
Ann Clwyd20/03/1995Cynon ValleySigned
Ann Coffey20/03/1995StockportSigned
Robin Corbett20/03/1995Birmingham, ErdingtonSigned
Jim Cousins20/03/1995Newcastle upon Tyne CentralSigned
George Foulkes20/03/1995Carrick, Cumnock and Doon ValleySigned
George Stevenson20/03/1995Stoke-on-Trent SouthSigned
Robert Wareing20/03/1995Liverpool, West DerbySigned
Malcolm Wicks20/03/1995Croydon North WestSigned
Martyn Jones21/03/1995Clwyd South WestSigned
Helen Jackson22/03/1995Sheffield, HillsboroughSigned
Helen Liddell22/03/1995Monklands EastSigned
Ken Livingstone22/03/1995Brent EastSigned
Calum MacDonald22/03/1995Na h-Eileanan an IarSigned
Tom Cox22/03/1995TootingSigned
Nick Ainger22/03/1995PembrokeSigned
Graham Allen22/03/1995Nottingham NorthSigned
Clive Betts22/03/1995Sheffield, AttercliffeSigned
Dawn Primarolo23/03/1995Bristol SouthSigned
Barry Sheerman23/03/1995HuddersfieldSigned
John McFall23/03/1995DumbartonSigned
Alex Carlile23/03/1995MontgomerySigned
Harry Cohen23/03/1995LeytonSigned
Bill Etherington23/03/1995Sunderland NorthSigned
Win Griffiths23/03/1995BridgendSigned
David Steel23/03/1995Tweeddale, Ettrick and LauderdaleSigned
Janet Anderson27/03/1995Rossendale & DarwenSigned
Winston Churchill29/03/1995DavyhulmeSigned
Jack Thompson29/03/1995WansbeckSigned
Brian Sedgemore31/03/1995Hackney South & ShoreditchSigned
Dennis Skinner31/03/1995BolsoverSigned
Matthew Taylor31/03/1995TruroSigned
Doug Hoyle03/04/1995Warrington NorthSigned
Peter Kilfoyle03/04/1995Liverpool, WaltonSigned
Denis MacShane03/04/1995RotherhamSigned
Malcolm Bruce03/04/1995GordonSigned
Peter Hain03/04/1995NeathSigned
Paul Tyler03/04/1995North CornwallSigned
Liz Lynne04/04/1995RochdaleSigned
Paul Murphy04/04/1995TorfaenSigned
Stan Orme04/04/1995Salford EastSigned
Malcolm Chisholm04/04/1995Edinburgh LeithSigned
Edwina Currie04/04/1995South DerbyshireSigned
Frank Field04/04/1995BirkenheadSigned
Gerry Steinberg04/04/1995Durham, City ofSigned
Tony Worthington04/04/1995Clydebank & MilngavieSigned
Diana Maddock05/04/1995ChristchurchSigned
Bill O'Brien05/04/1995NormantonSigned
David Chidgey05/04/1995EastleighSigned
John Denham05/04/1995Southampton, ItchenSigned
Jeff Rooker18/04/1995Birmingham, Perry BarrSigned
Clare Short18/04/1995Birmingham, LadywoodSigned
Peter Snape18/04/1995West Bromwich EastSigned
Martin O'Neill18/04/1995ClackmannanSigned
David Alton18/04/1995Liverpool Mossley HillSigned
Tony Benn18/04/1995ChesterfieldSigned
Stephen Timms18/04/1995Newham North EastSigned
Mike Watson20/04/1995Glasgow CentralSigned
Austin Mitchell21/04/1995Great GrimsbySigned
Adam Ingram24/04/1995East KilbrideSigned
Richard Caborn25/04/1995Sheffield CentralSigned
Andrew Faulds25/04/1995Warley EastSigned
Jeremy Bray27/04/1995Motherwell SouthSigned
Don Foster27/04/1995BathSigned
Diane Abbott27/04/1995Hackney North & Stoke NewingtonSigned
Joyce Quin28/04/1995Gateshead EastSigned
Roland Boyes28/04/1995Houghton and WashingtonSigned
Nigel Jones16/05/1995CheltenhamSigned
Alex Salmond11/07/1995Banff & BuchanSigned
Robert Hughes13/07/1995Aberdeen NorthSigned
Allan Rogers06/11/1995RhonddaSigned

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