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EDM number 26 in 2001-02, proposed by Austin Mitchell on 22/06/2001.

That this House is strongly concerned that well over a million devoted listeners to BBC World Service will be abandoned on 1st July by the BBC's ill considered proposal to drop its short wave service to North America and the Pacific, including Australia and New Zealand; urges the BBC urgently to reconsider its decision and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to persuade it to do so, so as to maintain services to these crucial areas and keep Britain's voice speaking loud and clear to the devoted elite audience reached by short wave transmissions who want and need a news and current affairs service which is of great value not only to them but to Britain's reputation and standing overseas; notes that the service cannot be adequately replaced by the BBC website's very limited capacity; and urges that full consideration be given by the BBC and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to the compelling arguments against the decision developed on the website www.savebbc.org, which effectively demolishes the BBC's entire case for the penny pinching folly of abandoning a devoted audience with a real interest in Britain.

This motion has been signed by a total of 67 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Austin Mitchell22/06/2001Great GrimsbyLabourProposed
Michael Fabricant25/06/2001LichfieldConservativeSigned
Harry Barnes26/06/2001North East DerbyshireLabourSigned
Nicholas Winterton26/06/2001MacclesfieldConservativeSigned
Valerie Davey26/06/2001Bristol WestLabourSigned
Nigel Jones26/06/2001CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Martin Smyth26/06/2001Belfast SouthUUPSigned
Alan Simpson26/06/2001Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Bob Russell26/06/2001ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
John Robertson26/06/2001Glasgow, AnnieslandLabourSigned
Lawrie Quinn26/06/2001Scarborough & WhitbyLabourSigned
Harold Best27/06/2001Leeds North WestLabourSigned
Richard Younger-Ross27/06/2001TeignbridgeLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Weir27/06/2001AngusScottish National PartySigned
Robert Wareing27/06/2001Liverpool, West DerbyLabourSigned
Joan Walley27/06/2001Stoke-on-Trent NorthLabourSigned
Peter Viggers27/06/2001GosportConservativeSigned
Paul Tyler27/06/2001North CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
John Austin27/06/2001Erith & ThamesmeadLabourSigned
John Cummings27/06/2001EasingtonLabourSigned
Martin Caton27/06/2001GowerLabourSigned
Colin Breed27/06/2001South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Tom Brake27/06/2001Carshalton & WallingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Julian Lewis27/06/2001New Forest EastConservativeSigned
Alice Mahon28/06/2001HalifaxLabourSigned
Win Griffiths28/06/2001BridgendLabourSigned
Janet Dean28/06/2001BurtonLabourSigned
Ronnie Campbell28/06/2001Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
John McDonnell28/06/2001Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins28/06/2001Luton NorthLabourSigned
Julie Morgan28/06/2001Cardiff NorthLabourSigned
Ann Cryer02/07/2001KeighleyLabourSigned
Ann Winterton02/07/2001CongletonConservativeSigned
Betty Williams02/07/2001ConwyLabourSigned
Roy Beggs02/07/2001East AntrimUUPSigned
Matthew Green02/07/2001LudlowLiberal DemocratSigned
Kevin McNamara02/07/2001Kingston upon Hull NorthLabourSigned
Paul Keetch02/07/2001HerefordLiberal DemocratSigned
Mike Hancock02/07/2001Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Angus Robertson03/07/2001MorayScottish National PartySigned
Christine Russell03/07/2001Chester, City ofLabourSigned
Lynne Jones03/07/2001Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Brian Cotter03/07/2001Weston-Super-MareLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Connarty04/07/2001Falkirk EastLabourSigned
James Plaskitt05/07/2001Warwick & LeamingtonLabourSigned
Bob Spink05/07/2001Castle PointConservativeSigned
David Marshall05/07/2001Glasgow, ShettlestonLabourSigned
Frank Cook05/07/2001Stockton NorthLabourSigned
Andrew Dismore05/07/2001HendonLabourSigned
Bill Etherington05/07/2001Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Elfyn Llwyd09/07/2001Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Andrew Rosindell09/07/2001RomfordConservativeSigned
Jeff Ennis10/07/2001Barnsley East & MexboroughLabourSigned
Vincent Cable11/07/2001TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Terry Davis11/07/2001Birmingham, Hodge HillLabourSigned
Russell Brown17/07/2001DumfriesLabourSigned
Michael Clapham17/07/2001Barnsley West & PenistoneLabourSigned
Rudi Vis18/07/2001Finchley & Golders GreenLabourSigned
John McFall19/07/2001DumbartonLabour Co-operativeSigned
Tony McWalter19/07/2001Hemel HempsteadLabour Co-operativeSigned
Ian Davidson19/07/2001Glasgow, PollokLabour Co-operativeSigned
Bill Tynan19/07/2001Hamilton SouthLabourSigned
Barry Sheerman14/09/2001HuddersfieldLabour Co-operativeSigned
Ann Widdecombe15/10/2001Maidstone & The WealdConservativeSigned
David Burnside18/10/2001South AntrimUUPSigned
Huw Edwards18/10/2001MonmouthLabourSigned
Martin Salter20/11/2001Reading WestLabourSigned

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