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Postal Voting

EDM number 1492 in 2001-02, proposed by Mike Wood on 24/06/2002.

That this House welcomes the Government's attempts to make voting easier and more convenient; acknowledges that a postal vote facility does have a positive impact on turnout, but expresses its concern at the potential opportunity for abuse of the postal vote system; and therefore calls upon the Government to make it compulsory for returning officers to publish a marked register of those who receive and cast postal votes at Parliamentary, European and council elections as an initial step towards investigating and clamping down on such fraud.

This motion has been signed by a total of 85 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Mike Wood24/06/2002Batley & SpenLabourProposed
Huw Edwards24/06/2002MonmouthLabourSigned
Mike Gapes24/06/2002Ilford SouthLabour Co-operativeSigned
Win Griffiths24/06/2002BridgendLabourSigned
John Grogan24/06/2002SelbyLabourSigned
Harry Barnes24/06/2002North East DerbyshireLabourSigned
John Battle24/06/2002Leeds WestLabourSigned
Peter Bottomley24/06/2002Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Gisela Stuart24/06/2002Birmingham, EdgbastonLabourSigned
David Taylor24/06/2002North West LeicestershireLabour Co-operativeSigned
Paul Truswell24/06/2002PudseyLabourSigned
Rudi Vis24/06/2002Finchley & Golders GreenLabourSigned
Tom Watson24/06/2002West Bromwich EastLabourSigned
Brian White24/06/2002North East Milton KeynesLabourSigned
Derek Wyatt24/06/2002Sittingbourne & SheppeyLabourSigned
David Drew24/06/2002StroudLabour Co-operativeSigned
Ross Cranston24/06/2002Dudley NorthLabourSigned
Jim Cousins24/06/2002Newcastle upon Tyne CentralLabourSigned
Kerry Pollard24/06/2002St AlbansLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins24/06/2002Luton NorthLabourSigned
Eric Illsley24/06/2002Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Nigel Jones24/06/2002CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Fiona Mactaggart24/06/2002SloughLabourSigned
Alice Mahon24/06/2002HalifaxLabourSigned
Michael Mates24/06/2002East HampshireConservativeSigned
Chris McCafferty24/06/2002Calder ValleyLabourSigned
Tony Colman24/06/2002PutneyLabourSigned
David Clelland24/06/2002Tyne BridgeLabourSigned
Colin Challen24/06/2002Morley & RothwellLabourSigned
Colin Burgon24/06/2002ElmetLabourSigned
John McDonnell24/06/2002Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
Siobhain McDonagh24/06/2002Mitcham & MordenLabourSigned
Simon Thomas25/06/2002CeredigionPlaid CymruSigned
Ian Gibson25/06/2002Norwich NorthLabourSigned
Wayne David25/06/2002CaerphillyLabourSigned
John Cummings25/06/2002EasingtonLabourSigned
Ashok Kumar25/06/2002Middlesbrough South & East ClevelandLabourSigned
Brian Iddon25/06/2002Bolton South EastLabourSigned
Gordon Prentice25/06/2002PendleLabourSigned
Clive Efford26/06/2002ElthamLabourSigned
Ronnie Campbell26/06/2002Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Vincent Cable26/06/2002TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Richard Burden26/06/2002Birmingham, NorthfieldLabourSigned
Paul Holmes26/06/2002ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSigned
Linda Perham26/06/2002Ilford NorthLabourSigned
Paul Tyler27/06/2002North CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Edward Davey27/06/2002Kingston & SurbitonLiberal DemocratSigned
Harry Cohen27/06/2002Leyton & WansteadLabourSigned
Rob Marris27/06/2002Wolverhampton South WestLabourSigned
Jim Knight27/06/2002South DorsetLabourSigned
Syd Rapson27/06/2002Portsmouth NorthLabourSigned
Betty Williams01/07/2002ConwyLabourSigned
Ann Widdecombe01/07/2002Maidstone & The WealdConservativeSigned
Andrew Dismore01/07/2002HendonLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins01/07/2002TamworthLabourSigned
Jon Trickett02/07/2002HemsworthLabourSigned
Jeff Ennis02/07/2002Barnsley East & MexboroughLabourSigned
Terry Davis02/07/2002Birmingham, Hodge HillLabourSigned
Ann Cryer02/07/2002KeighleyLabourSigned
Brian Cotter02/07/2002Weston-Super-MareLiberal DemocratSigned
Stephen Hepburn02/07/2002JarrowLabourSigned
Martin Smyth02/07/2002Belfast SouthUUPSigned
Dennis Skinner02/07/2002BolsoverLabourSigned
Adam Price02/07/2002Carmarthen East & DinefwrPlaid CymruSigned
Angela Watkinson03/07/2002UpminsterConservativeSigned
David Cairns03/07/2002Greenock & InverclydeLabourSigned
Edward O'Hara03/07/2002Knowsley SouthLabourSigned
Laura Moffatt03/07/2002CrawleyLabourSigned
Frank Roy03/07/2002Motherwell & WishawLabourSigned
David Crausby04/07/2002Bolton North EastLabourSigned
Denis Murphy04/07/2002WansbeckLabourSigned
George Mudie04/07/2002Leeds EastLabourSigned
Terry Lewis04/07/2002WorsleyLabourSigned
Bob Spink04/07/2002Castle PointConservativeSigned
Alan Simpson04/07/2002Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Roger Godsiff08/07/2002Birmingham, Sparkbrook & Small HeathLabourSigned
David Borrow08/07/2002South RibbleLabourSigned
Bill Etherington09/07/2002Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Helen Clark09/07/2002PeterboroughLabourSigned
Doug Naysmith09/07/2002Bristol North WestLabour Co-operativeSigned
Janet Dean10/07/2002BurtonLabourSigned
Parmjit Dhanda11/07/2002GloucesterLabourSigned
Tony Clarke17/07/2002Northampton SouthLabourSigned
Nick Harvey24/07/2002North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
Tony McWalter31/10/2002Hemel HempsteadLabour Co-operativeSigned

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