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Court Closures

EDM number 763 in 1997-98, proposed by Bob Russell on 10/02/1998.

That this House, alarmed at the closure of magistrates' courts throughout the country, implemented by non-elected magistrates courts' committees against the declared wishes of the local communities involved, including the opposition of democratically elected councils and honourable and Right honourable Members, calls on the Government to halt all further closures pending a full independent review of the consequences of closures which have already occurred and of those courts currently under threat of closure.

This motion has been signed by a total of 31 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Bob Russell10/02/1998ColchesterLiberal DemocratProposed
Ken Livingstone11/02/1998Brent EastLabourSigned
Mike Hancock11/02/1998Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
John Austin11/02/1998Erith & ThamesmeadLabourSigned
David Taylor11/02/1998North West LeicestershireLabour Co-operativeSigned
Derek Wyatt12/02/1998Sittingbourne & SheppeyLabourSigned
Bill Etherington12/02/1998Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
John Cummings12/02/1998EasingtonLabourSigned
Ann Cryer12/02/1998KeighleyLabourSigned
Tom Brake16/02/1998Carshalton & WallingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Ronnie Fearn16/02/1998SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
Elfyn Llwyd17/02/1998Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
John McDonnell17/02/1998Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe17/02/1998LeighLabourSigned
Rudi Vis17/02/1998Finchley & Golders GreenLabourSigned
Laura Moffatt18/02/1998CrawleyLabourSigned
Michael Clapham18/02/1998Barnsley West & PenistoneLabourSigned
Martin Caton18/02/1998GowerLabourSigned
Vincent Cable18/02/1998TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Terry Lewis19/02/1998WorsleyLabourSigned
Alice Mahon19/02/1998HalifaxLabourSigned
Angela Smith23/02/1998BasildonLabour Co-operativeSigned
David Prior24/02/1998North NorfolkConservativeSigned
Nigel Jones26/02/1998CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Martyn Jones27/02/1998Clwyd SouthLabourSigned
Mark Todd04/03/1998South DerbyshireLabourSigned
Janet Dean05/03/1998BurtonLabourSigned
Andrew George12/03/1998St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Dale Campbell-Savours18/03/1998WorkingtonLabourSigned
Alan Beith23/03/1998Berwick-upon-TweedLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Fabricant16/11/1998LichfieldConservativeSigned

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