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Early Day Motions

EDM number 253 in 1996-97, proposed by Nicholas Winterton on 26/11/1996.

That this House finds Early Day Motions a useful procedural mechanism for moving up the public, the political and the Parliamentary agenda issues of concern to Right honourable and honourable Members and their constituents without the necessity of taking the time of the House itself; believes that the increasing number of such motions reflects a reduction in the other opportunities afforded by the procedures of the House for quantifying support for backbench motions; and invites the Leader of the House and the relevant committees to give their most careful consideration to the need of honourable members to have available to them the tools necessary to fulfil their prime constitutional obligation to keep an effective check on the actions of the executive, in which task Early Day Motions, like written questions, are a helpful device, the value of which would be enhanced still further by opportunities for debating the provisions of those which garner greatest support.

This motion has been signed by a total of 34 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Nicholas Winterton26/11/1996MacclesfieldProposed
Alan Meale27/11/1996MansfieldSigned
Eric Clarke27/11/1996MidlothianSigned
Michael Connarty27/11/1996Falkirk EastSigned
Dennis Turner27/11/1996Wolverhampton South EastSigned
Maria Fyfe28/11/1996Glasgow, MaryhillSigned
Roy Beggs28/11/1996East AntrimSigned
Harry Barnes28/11/1996North East DerbyshireSigned
Tony Banks28/11/1996Newham North WestSigned
Norman Godman28/11/1996Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
John Evans28/11/1996St Helens NorthSigned
John Cummings28/11/1996EasingtonSigned
John Heppell28/11/1996Nottingham EastSigned
Nick Harvey28/11/1996North DevonSigned
Alex Salmond29/11/1996Banff & BuchanSigned
Alex Carlile02/12/1996MontgomerySigned
Lawrence Cunliffe02/12/1996LeighSigned
Colin Pickthall03/12/1996West LancashireSigned
Peter Griffiths03/12/1996Portsmouth NorthSigned
Ian Davidson03/12/1996Glasgow, GovanSigned
Mike Hall04/12/1996Warrington SouthSigned
Raymond Powell05/12/1996OgmoreSigned
Margaret Hodge05/12/1996BarkingSigned
Michael Clapham05/12/1996Barnsley West & PenistoneSigned
Gwyneth Dunwoody05/12/1996Crewe & NantwichSigned
Bill Etherington05/12/1996Sunderland NorthSigned
Martyn Jones06/12/1996Clwyd South WestSigned
Ken Livingstone12/12/1996Brent EastSigned
Simon Hughes13/01/1997Southwark and BermondseySigned
John Gunnell15/01/1997Leeds South and MorleySigned
Kevin Hughes16/01/1997Doncaster NorthSigned
Jeff Ennis23/01/1997Barnsley EastSigned
Jim Wallace27/01/1997Orkney & ShetlandSigned
Tommy Graham05/02/1997Renfrew West and InverclydeSigned

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