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Conduct Of The Secretary Of State For Wales

EDM number 337 in 1995-96, proposed by Rhodri Morgan on 24/01/1996.

That this House finds completely unacceptable the claim made by the Secretary of State for Wales on 10th January in introducing the first edition of 'Health Statistics Wales' and claiming that 'Wales now has one of the lowest infant mortality rates in Europe', the preposterous nature of this claim being shown by the EUROSTAT statistical atlas published by the European Commission in August 1995 and giving the infact mortality rates for all European countries outside the ex-Communist Block for the year 1994, the same year as that used in Health Statistics Wales, and indicating that Wales was in 11th position out of 18 countries for low infant mortality rates; and, since Wales was not even in the better half of the league table, let along having one of the best rates in Europe as claimed by the Secretary of State, calls on him to apologise to the people of Wales for the absurdity of his claim and to donate his ministerial salary to the NHS to purchase more special baby care units.

This motion has been signed by a total of 39 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Rhodri Morgan24/01/1996Cardiff WestProposed
David Hanson24/01/1996DelynSigned
Alan Wynne Williams24/01/1996CarmarthenSigned
Don Touhig24/01/1996IslwynSigned
Win Griffiths24/01/1996BridgendSigned
Nick Ainger24/01/1996PembrokeSigned
Paul Flynn24/01/1996Newport WestSigned
Paul Murphy24/01/1996TorfaenSigned
Martyn Jones24/01/1996Clwyd South WestSigned
Jon Owen Jones24/01/1996Cardiff CentralSigned
Kim Howells25/01/1996PontypriddSigned
Lynne Jones25/01/1996Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
Harry Barnes25/01/1996North East DerbyshireSigned
Dafydd Wigley25/01/1996CaernarfonSigned
Alan Williams25/01/1996Swansea WestSigned
Dennis Skinner26/01/1996BolsoverSigned
Bill Michie26/01/1996Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Eric Clarke29/01/1996MidlothianSigned
Alan Meale29/01/1996MansfieldSigned
Ken Livingstone29/01/1996Brent EastSigned
Roy Hughes29/01/1996Newport EastSigned
Barry Jones29/01/1996Alyn & DeesideSigned
Michael Connarty30/01/1996Falkirk EastSigned
Gordon Prentice31/01/1996PendleSigned
Eddie Loyden31/01/1996Liverpool, GarstonSigned
Alex Carlile31/01/1996MontgomerySigned
Michael Clapham31/01/1996Barnsley West & PenistoneSigned
Mike Hall31/01/1996Warrington SouthSigned
Dennis Turner01/02/1996Wolverhampton South EastSigned
Jack Thompson01/02/1996WansbeckSigned
Audrey Wise06/02/1996PrestonSigned
Donald Anderson07/02/1996Swansea EastSigned
Terry Rooney08/02/1996Bradford NorthSigned
Ann Clwyd08/02/1996Cynon ValleySigned
Peter Hain08/02/1996NeathSigned
Greg Pope15/02/1996HyndburnSigned
Allan Rogers22/02/1996RhonddaSigned
Dale Campbell-Savours22/02/1996WorkingtonSigned
Nigel Jones19/03/1996CheltenhamSigned

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