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British Dependent Territories

EDM number 714 in 1997-98, proposed by Bob Russell on 29/01/1998.

That this House calls on the Government to grant full United Kingdom nationality to inhabitants of the remaining British Dependent Territories - Anguilla, Bermuda, British Antarctic Territory, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Montserrat, Pitcairn, St Helena, South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, and the Turks and Caicos Island - giving these 150,000 inhabitants of the last remnants of the British Empire the same status as citizens of the Falklands and Gibraltar.

This motion has been signed by a total of 38 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Bob Russell29/01/1998ColchesterLiberal DemocratProposed
Paul Keetch30/01/1998HerefordLiberal DemocratSigned
Harry Barnes30/01/1998North East DerbyshireLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn30/01/1998Islington NorthLabourSigned
John Marek02/02/1998WrexhamLabourSigned
Iain Coleman02/02/1998Hammersmith & FulhamLabourSigned
John Cummings02/02/1998EasingtonLabourSigned
Norman Godman02/02/1998Greenock & InverclydeLabourSigned
Audrey Wise02/02/1998PrestonLabourSigned
Bill Michie03/02/1998Sheffield, HeeleyLabourSigned
Colin Breed03/02/1998South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Clapham03/02/1998Barnsley West & PenistoneLabourSigned
John Cryer03/02/1998HornchurchLabourSigned
Mike Hancock03/02/1998Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
John Austin03/02/1998Erith & ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Brian White03/02/1998North East Milton KeynesLabourSigned
Jenny Tonge04/02/1998Richmond ParkLiberal DemocratSigned
Ronnie Fearn04/02/1998SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
Edward O'Hara04/02/1998Knowsley SouthLabourSigned
Ken Livingstone04/02/1998Brent EastLabourSigned
Peter Bradley04/02/1998Wrekin, TheLabourSigned
Alan Simpson05/02/1998Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Nick Harvey05/02/1998North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
Kelvin Hopkins05/02/1998Luton NorthLabourSigned
Ann Cryer05/02/1998KeighleyLabourSigned
John D Taylor06/02/1998StrangfordUUPSigned
Martin Caton06/02/1998GowerLabourSigned
Vincent Cable06/02/1998TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Gordon Marsden06/02/1998Blackpool SouthLabourSigned
Peter Brand09/02/1998Isle of WightLiberal DemocratSigned
Jim Wallace09/02/1998Orkney & ShetlandLiberal DemocratSigned
Eric Illsley10/02/1998Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Kevin McNamara12/02/1998Kingston upon Hull NorthLabourSigned
John McDonnell17/02/1998Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
Robert McCartney23/02/1998North DownUKUPSigned
Norman Baker24/02/1998LewesLiberal DemocratSigned
Nigel Jones26/02/1998CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Terry Davis11/03/1998Birmingham, Hodge HillLabourSigned

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