Classroom Assistants

EDM number 455 in 2001-02, proposed by Tom Watson on 20/11/2001.

That this House pays tribute to the invaluable work of the country's 186,000 hardworking classroom assistants; welcomes the Government's plans to increase the number of teaching assistants and learning mentors; supports plans to build on their expertise by enabling them to work more closely with pupils with reading and writing, supervising lunchtime activities and giving pastoral and other individual support to pupils; notes that this will free up the country's 425,000 teachers to do what they do best, teach; and expresses disappointment at recent comments in the press disparaging their work and status.

This motion has been signed by a total of 64 MPs, 2 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Tom Watson	20/11/2001	West Bromwich East	Labour	Proposed
David Wright	20/11/2001	Telford	Labour	Signed
Mark Tami	20/11/2001	Alyn & Deeside	Labour	Signed
Paul Flynn	20/11/2001	Newport West	Labour	Signed
Kevin Brennan	20/11/2001	Cardiff West	Labour	Signed
Meg Munn	20/11/2001	Sheffield, Heeley	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Alan Meale	20/11/2001	Mansfield	Labour	Signed
Khalid Mahmood	20/11/2001	Birmingham, Perry Barr	Labour	Signed
Stephen Hepburn	20/11/2001	Jarrow	Labour	Signed
Dai Havard	20/11/2001	Merthyr Tydfil & Rhymney	Labour	Signed
Si	20/11/2001	Birmingham, Erdington	Labour	Signed
Russell Brown	21/11/2001	Dumfries	Labour	Signed
Jeremy Corbyn	21/11/2001	Islington North	Labour	Signed
Tom Cox	21/11/2001	Tooting	Labour	Signed
John Cummings	21/11/2001	Easington	Labour	Signed
Wayne David	21/11/2001	Caerphilly	Labour	Signed
Jim Dobbin	21/11/2001	Heywood & Middleton	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Win Griffiths	21/11/2001	Bridgend	Labour	Signed
Derek Wyatt	21/11/2001	Sittingbourne & Sheppey	Labour	Signed
Edward O'Hara	21/11/2001	Knowsley South	Labour	Signed
Kevin McNamara	21/11/2001	Kingston upon Hull North	Labour	Signed
Linda Perham	21/11/2001	Ilford North	Labour	Signed
Lady Hermon	21/11/2001	North Down	UUP	Signed
Joan Humble	21/11/2001	Blackpool North & Fleetwood	Labour	Signed
Lynne Jones	21/11/2001	Birmingham, Selly Oak	Labour	Signed
Jim Knight	21/11/2001	South Dorset	Labour	Signed
Ashok Kumar	21/11/2001	Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland	Labour	Signed
David Lepper	21/11/2001	Brighton, Pavilion	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Gordon Marsden	21/11/2001	Blackpool South	Labour	Signed
Martin Caton	22/11/2001	Gower	Labour	Signed
David Chaytor	22/11/2001	Bury North	Labour	Signed
David Drew	22/11/2001	Stroud	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Ian Gibson	22/11/2001	Norwich North	Labour	Signed
Paul Truswell	22/11/2001	Pudsey	Labour	Signed
John McFall	22/11/2001	Dumbarton	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Helen Jones	22/11/2001	Warrington North	Labour	Signed
Eric Illsley	22/11/2001	Barnsley Central	Labour	Signed
Lindsay Hoyle	22/11/2001	Chorley	Labour	Signed
Kelvin Hopkins	22/11/2001	Luton North	Labour	Signed
Dennis Skinner	22/11/2001	Bolsover	Labour	Signed
Syd Rapson	22/11/2001	Portsmouth North	Labour	Signed
Jon Trickett	23/11/2001	Hemsworth	Labour	Signed
Richard Burden	23/11/2001	Birmingham, Northfield	Labour	Signed
Laura Moffatt	23/11/2001	Crawley	Labour	Signed
David Kidney	23/11/2001	Stafford	Labour	Signed
Bill Etherington	26/11/2001	Sunderland North	Labour	Signed
Tony Lloyd	27/11/2001	Manchester Central	Labour	Signed
Janet Dean	27/11/2001	Burton	Labour	Signed
Vera Baird	28/11/2001	Redcar	Labour	Signed
George Mudie	28/11/2001	Leeds East	Labour	Signed
Huw Edwards	29/11/2001	Monmouth	Labour	Signed
Stephen Pound	03/12/2001	Ealing North	Labour	Signed
Rob Marris	03/12/2001	Wolverhampton South West	Labour	Signed
Ann Cryer	03/12/2001	Keighley	Labour	Signed
Betty Williams	03/12/2001	Conwy	Labour	Signed
Brian Jenkins	05/12/2001	Tamworth	Labour	Signed
John McDonnell	17/12/2001	Hayes & Harlington	Labour	Signed
Alan Simpson	18/12/2001	Nottingham South	Labour	Signed
John Grogan	08/01/2002	Selby	Labour	Signed
Paul Stinchcombe	18/01/2002	Wellingborough	Labour	Signed
Doug Naysmith	22/01/2002	Bristol North West	Labour Co-operative	Signed
David Crausby	23/01/2002	Bolton North East	Labour	Signed
Ian Davidson	Unknown			Withdrawn
Harold Best	Unknown			Withdrawn

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