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Patten Commission

EDM number 960 in 1998-99, proposed by Kevin McNamara on 29/10/1999.

That this House welcomes the unanimous report of the Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland; congratulates the Right honourable Chris Patten for his skilful stewardship in conducting a consultation of exceptional thoroughness, for bringing the Commission to a conclusion so closely aligned with the letter and spirit of the Good Friday Agreement in seeking a new beginning to policing in Northern Ireland with a police service capable of attracting and sustaining support from the community as a whole, and recognising consent as a critical principle for operational effectiveness; notes the Irish Post newspaper poll of Irish in Britain found 90 per cent. supporting implementation of the Patten reforms; regrets the disinformation campaign against the Patten reforms launched by the Daily Telegraph newspaper in covert alliance with the intransigent Friends of the Union grouping and sections of the Orange Order; and is angered by the newspaper's cynical use of disabled officers and its exploitation of the memory of officers who have fallen victim to terrorism and its manipulation of the grief of their relatives in order to boost their dead-end campaign to undermine the Good Friday Agreement.

This motion has been signed by a total of 11 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Kevin McNamara29/10/1999Kingston upon Hull NorthLabourProposed
Norman Godman03/11/1999Greenock & InverclydeLabourSigned
Jim Dobbin04/11/1999Heywood & MiddletonLabour Co-operativeSigned
Bill Etherington04/11/1999Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn05/11/1999Islington NorthLabourSigned
Nick Palmer08/11/1999BroxtoweLabourSigned
Martin Salter08/11/1999Reading WestLabourSigned
Maria Fyfe08/11/1999Glasgow, MaryhillLabourSigned
John McDonnell09/11/1999Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
Terry Davis09/11/1999Birmingham, Hodge HillLabourSigned
John Austin10/11/1999Erith & ThamesmeadLabourSigned

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