The Diamond Synchrotron Project
EDM number 547 in 1999-00, proposed by Graham Brady on 16/03/2000.
That this House regrets the Government's decision to award the ú200 million Diamond Synchrotron project to Oxfordshire and not to the existing synchrotron facility at Daresbury in Cheshire; notes that the long-term cost to the North West economy will be ú550 million; notes that it will damage the science base of the North West risking the loss of over 200 high-skilled jobs, likely to go overseas; further notes that the Science and Technology Select Committee found no scientific case to favour Oxfordshire over Cheshire as a site for the new investment; and believes that this decision taken personally by the Prime Minister, shows that he has not given sufficient weight to the importance of regional policy or to the need to promote science and encourage investment in the North West.
This motion has been signed by a total of 15 MPs.
MP | Date | Constituency | Party | Type |
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Graham Brady | 16/03/2000 | Altrincham & Sale West | Conservative | Proposed |
Stephen O'Brien | 16/03/2000 | Eddisbury | Conservative | Signed |
Stephen Day | 16/03/2000 | Cheadle | Conservative | Signed |
Ann Winterton | 16/03/2000 | Congleton | Conservative | Signed |
Nicholas Winterton | 16/03/2000 | Macclesfield | Conservative | Signed |
Owen Paterson | 21/03/2000 | North Shropshire | Conservative | Signed |
Michael Jack | 21/03/2000 | Fylde | Conservative | Signed |
Lynne Jones | 21/03/2000 | Birmingham, Selly Oak | Labour | Signed |
Julian Lewis | 21/03/2000 | New Forest East | Conservative | Signed |
Anne McIntosh | 21/03/2000 | Vale of York | Conservative | Signed |
Robert Wareing | 22/03/2000 | Liverpool, West Derby | Labour | Signed |
Andrew Stunell | 23/03/2000 | Hazel Grove | Liberal Democrat | Signed |
Kevin McNamara | 28/03/2000 | Kingston upon Hull North | Labour | Signed |
John McDonnell | 06/04/2000 | Hayes & Harlington | Labour | Signed |
Eric Illsley | 17/04/2000 | Barnsley Central | Labour | Signed |
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