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.
MP | Date | Constituency | Party | Type |
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Nicholas Winterton | 26/11/1996 | Macclesfield | Proposed | |
Alan Meale | 27/11/1996 | Mansfield | Signed | |
Eric Clarke | 27/11/1996 | Midlothian | Signed | |
Michael Connarty | 27/11/1996 | Falkirk East | Signed | |
Dennis Turner | 27/11/1996 | Wolverhampton South East | Signed | |
Maria Fyfe | 28/11/1996 | Glasgow, Maryhill | Signed | |
Roy Beggs | 28/11/1996 | East Antrim | Signed | |
Harry Barnes | 28/11/1996 | North East Derbyshire | Signed | |
Tony Banks | 28/11/1996 | Newham North West | Signed | |
Norman Godman | 28/11/1996 | Greenock and Port Glasgow | Signed | |
John Evans | 28/11/1996 | St Helens North | Signed | |
John Cummings | 28/11/1996 | Easington | Signed | |
John Heppell | 28/11/1996 | Nottingham East | Signed | |
Nick Harvey | 28/11/1996 | North Devon | Signed | |
Alex Salmond | 29/11/1996 | Banff & Buchan | Signed | |
Alex Carlile | 02/12/1996 | Montgomery | Signed | |
Lawrence Cunliffe | 02/12/1996 | Leigh | Signed | |
Colin Pickthall | 03/12/1996 | West Lancashire | Signed | |
Peter Griffiths | 03/12/1996 | Portsmouth North | Signed | |
Ian Davidson | 03/12/1996 | Glasgow, Govan | Signed | |
Mike Hall | 04/12/1996 | Warrington South | Signed | |
Raymond Powell | 05/12/1996 | Ogmore | Signed | |
Margaret Hodge | 05/12/1996 | Barking | Signed | |
Michael Clapham | 05/12/1996 | Barnsley West & Penistone | Signed | |
Gwyneth Dunwoody | 05/12/1996 | Crewe & Nantwich | Signed | |
Bill Etherington | 05/12/1996 | Sunderland North | Signed | |
Martyn Jones | 06/12/1996 | Clwyd South West | Signed | |
Ken Livingstone | 12/12/1996 | Brent East | Signed | |
Simon Hughes | 13/01/1997 | Southwark and Bermondsey | Signed | |
John Gunnell | 15/01/1997 | Leeds South and Morley | Signed | |
Kevin Hughes | 16/01/1997 | Doncaster North | Signed | |
Jeff Ennis | 23/01/1997 | Barnsley East | Signed | |
Jim Wallace | 27/01/1997 | Orkney & Shetland | Signed | |
Tommy Graham | 05/02/1997 | Renfrew West and Inverclyde | Signed |
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