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Christmas Island Test Veterans

EDM number 645 in 2001-02, proposed by Mike Weir on 14/01/2002.

That this House welcomes last month's ruling by the Pensions Appeal Tribunal that Tom Duggan, a nuclear test veteran who served in the armed forces during the UK's first A bomb programme on Christmas Island in 1958, contracted Lymphatic Cancer following exposure to radiation; notes that the tribunal's decision could finally prove to be the decisive case which overturns decades of claims by successive UK governments that the Christmas Island explosions could not have harmed UK servicemen; further notes the Ministry of Defence's refusal to grant funding to a test pioneered at Dundee University which would determine the effects of radiation on servicemen; and calls upon the Government to reconsider its position and grant the ú300,000 necessary to carry out these tests.

This motion has been signed by a total of 62 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Michael Weir14/01/2002AngusScottish National PartyProposed
Alex Salmond15/01/2002Banff & BuchanScottish National PartySigned
Paul Holmes15/01/2002ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSigned
Kevin McNamara15/01/2002Kingston upon Hull NorthLabourSigned
Alistair Carmichael15/01/2002Orkney & ShetlandLiberal DemocratSigned
Ian Gibson15/01/2002Norwich NorthLabourSigned
Mike Hancock15/01/2002Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Roy Beggs15/01/2002East AntrimUUPSigned
David Taylor15/01/2002North West LeicestershireLabour Co-operativeSigned
Janet Dean16/01/2002BurtonLabourSigned
Simon Thomas16/01/2002CeredigionPlaid CymruSigned
Annabelle Ewing16/01/2002PerthScottish National PartySigned
Ronnie Campbell16/01/2002Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Siobhain McDonagh16/01/2002Mitcham & MordenLabourSigned
Angus Robertson16/01/2002MorayScottish National PartySigned
Lynne Jones16/01/2002Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins16/01/2002TamworthLabourSigned
Edward O'Hara16/01/2002Knowsley SouthLabourSigned
Win Griffiths17/01/2002BridgendLabourSigned
Paul Tyler17/01/2002North CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Desmond Turner17/01/2002Brighton, KemptownLabourSigned
John Barrett17/01/2002Edinburgh WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew George17/01/2002St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Huw Edwards17/01/2002MonmouthLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins17/01/2002Luton NorthLabourSigned
Tony Lloyd18/01/2002Manchester CentralLabourSigned
Vera Baird18/01/2002RedcarLabourSigned
Rudi Vis18/01/2002Finchley & Golders GreenLabourSigned
Jimmy Wray21/01/2002Glasgow, BailliestonLabourSigned
Betty Williams21/01/2002ConwyLabourSigned
Lindsay Hoyle21/01/2002ChorleyLabourSigned
Jim Cunningham21/01/2002Coventry SouthLabourSigned
Syd Rapson22/01/2002Portsmouth NorthLabourSigned
Nigel Jones22/01/2002CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Ashok Kumar22/01/2002Middlesbrough South & East ClevelandLabourSigned
Elfyn Llwyd22/01/2002Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Martin Caton22/01/2002GowerLabourSigned
Jackie Lawrence23/01/2002Preseli PembrokeshireLabourSigned
Bob Russell24/01/2002ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Jeremy Corbyn24/01/2002Islington NorthLabourSigned
Jim Cousins24/01/2002Newcastle upon Tyne CentralLabourSigned
Tom Cox24/01/2002TootingLabourSigned
Paul Farrelly25/01/2002Newcastle-under-LymeLabourSigned
Ian Davidson28/01/2002Glasgow, PollokLabour Co-operativeSigned
Derek Wyatt28/01/2002Sittingbourne & SheppeyLabourSigned
Paul Flynn28/01/2002Newport WestLabourSigned
Ann Cryer28/01/2002KeighleyLabourSigned
Patsy Calton28/01/2002CheadleLiberal DemocratSigned
George Mudie28/01/2002Leeds EastLabourSigned
Michael Clapham29/01/2002Barnsley West & PenistoneLabourSigned
Alan Williams30/01/2002Swansea WestLabourSigned
Bill Etherington31/01/2002Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Matthew Green01/02/2002LudlowLiberal DemocratSigned
Nick Harvey06/02/2002North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
Don Foster06/02/2002BathLiberal DemocratSigned
George Galloway08/02/2002Glasgow, KelvinLabourSigned
Terry Davis12/02/2002Birmingham, Hodge HillLabourSigned
Alan Simpson07/03/2002Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Tony McWalter11/04/2002Hemel HempsteadLabour Co-operativeSigned
John Lyons15/10/2002Strathkelvin & BearsdenLabourSigned
Pete Wishart15/10/2002North TaysideScottish National PartySigned
Keith VazUnknownWithdrawn

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