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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.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Graham Brady16/03/2000Altrincham & Sale WestConservativeProposed
Stephen O'Brien16/03/2000EddisburyConservativeSigned
Stephen Day16/03/2000CheadleConservativeSigned
Ann Winterton16/03/2000CongletonConservativeSigned
Nicholas Winterton16/03/2000MacclesfieldConservativeSigned
Owen Paterson21/03/2000North ShropshireConservativeSigned
Michael Jack21/03/2000FyldeConservativeSigned
Lynne Jones21/03/2000Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Julian Lewis21/03/2000New Forest EastConservativeSigned
Anne McIntosh21/03/2000Vale of YorkConservativeSigned
Robert Wareing22/03/2000Liverpool, West DerbyLabourSigned
Andrew Stunell23/03/2000Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
Kevin McNamara28/03/2000Kingston upon Hull NorthLabourSigned
John McDonnell06/04/2000Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
Eric Illsley17/04/2000Barnsley CentralLabourSigned

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