Trade And Industry Committee Inquiry Into Arms Sales To Iran
EDM number 650 in 1996-97, proposed by Ken Purchase on 12/03/1997.
That this House notes with alarm that documents showing that Astra/BMARC paid millions of pounds in secret commissions on sales to Iran and Iraq have been uncovered; notes these documents were in the possession of the DTI inspectors throughout the Trade and Industry Committee inquiry into arms sales to Iran but were not made available to the inquiry where they would have supported witnesses who claimed there was a large but secret order book at Astra/BMARC supplying arms to Iran which helped facilitate the arming of both parties to the Iran/Iraq conflict; and requires the Government to give a true account of what use its arms agents made of Astra/BMARC in the 1980s.
This motion has been signed by a total of 40 MPs.
MP | Date | Constituency | Party | Type |
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Ken Purchase | 12/03/1997 | Wolverhampton North East | Proposed | |
Michael Clapham | 12/03/1997 | Barnsley West & Penistone | Seconded | |
Chris Mullin | 12/03/1997 | Sunderland South | Seconded | |
Hugh Bayley | 13/03/1997 | York, City of | Signed | |
Harry Barnes | 13/03/1997 | North East Derbyshire | Signed | |
Norman Godman | 13/03/1997 | Greenock and Port Glasgow | Signed | |
John Evans | 13/03/1997 | St Helens North | Signed | |
Jeremy Corbyn | 13/03/1997 | Islington North | Signed | |
Bill Michie | 13/03/1997 | Sheffield, Heeley | Signed | |
William McKelvey | 13/03/1997 | Kilmarnock & Loudoun | Signed | |
John McAllion | 13/03/1997 | Dundee East | Signed | |
Lynne Jones | 13/03/1997 | Birmingham, Selly Oak | Signed | |
Ernie Ross | 13/03/1997 | Dundee West | Signed | |
Dennis Skinner | 17/03/1997 | Bolsover | Signed | |
Eric Illsley | 17/03/1997 | Barnsley Central | Signed | |
Ken Livingstone | 17/03/1997 | Brent East | Signed | |
Tom Cox | 17/03/1997 | Tooting | Signed | |
Lawrence Cunliffe | 17/03/1997 | Leigh | Signed | |
Tony Banks | 17/03/1997 | Newham North West | Signed | |
John Heppell | 18/03/1997 | Nottingham East | Signed | |
Dennis Turner | 18/03/1997 | Wolverhampton South East | Signed | |
Gerry Steinberg | 18/03/1997 | Durham, City of | Signed | |
Andrew Faulds | 18/03/1997 | Warley East | Signed | |
Jean Corston | 18/03/1997 | Bristol East | Signed | |
David Clelland | 18/03/1997 | Tyne Bridge | Signed | |
Alice Mahon | 18/03/1997 | Halifax | Signed | |
Eddie Loyden | 18/03/1997 | Liverpool, Garston | Signed | |
Martyn Jones | 18/03/1997 | Clwyd South West | Signed | |
Peter Hardy | 18/03/1997 | Wentworth | Signed | |
Llew Smith | 19/03/1997 | Blaenau Gwent | Signed | |
Nick Harvey | 19/03/1997 | North Devon | Signed | |
Alan Meale | 19/03/1997 | Mansfield | Signed | |
Edward O'Hara | 19/03/1997 | Knowsley South | Signed | |
Eric Clarke | 19/03/1997 | Midlothian | Signed | |
Ian Davidson | 19/03/1997 | Glasgow, Govan | Signed | |
Mike Gapes | 19/03/1997 | Ilford South | Signed | |
Bill Etherington | 20/03/1997 | Sunderland North | Signed | |
Maria Fyfe | 20/03/1997 | Glasgow, Maryhill | Signed | |
John Gunnell | 20/03/1997 | Leeds South and Morley | Signed | |
Mike Hall | 20/03/1997 | Warrington South | Signed |
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