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Christmas Island Test Veterans

EDM number 193 in 2002-03, proposed by Ian Gibson on 26/11/2002.

That this House welcomes the 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 74 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Ian Gibson26/11/2002Norwich NorthLabourProposed
Iris Robinson27/11/2002StrangfordDUPSigned
Michael Weir27/11/2002AngusScottish National PartySigned
Robert Wareing27/11/2002Liverpool, West DerbyLabourSigned
Rudi Vis27/11/2002Finchley & Golders GreenLabourSigned
Harry Barnes27/11/2002North East DerbyshireLabourSigned
Win Griffiths27/11/2002BridgendLabourSigned
Andrew George27/11/2002St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew Dismore27/11/2002HendonLabourSigned
Terry Davis27/11/2002Birmingham, Hodge HillLabourSigned
Martin Caton27/11/2002GowerLabourSigned
Edward O'Hara27/11/2002Knowsley SouthLabourSigned
Alan Meale27/11/2002MansfieldLabourSigned
Lynne Jones27/11/2002Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Lindsay Hoyle27/11/2002ChorleyLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins27/11/2002Luton NorthLabourSigned
Syd Rapson28/11/2002Portsmouth NorthLabourSigned
Paul Tyler28/11/2002North CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Tony Colman28/11/2002PutneyLabourSigned
Richard Burden28/11/2002Birmingham, NorthfieldLabourSigned
Colin Breed28/11/2002South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Terry Lewis28/11/2002WorsleyLabourSigned
David Lepper28/11/2002Brighton, PavilionLabour Co-operativeSigned
Eric Illsley28/11/2002Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Alan Simpson28/11/2002Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Bob Russell28/11/2002ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Greg Pope28/11/2002HyndburnLabourSigned
Tony Banks02/12/2002West HamLabourSigned
Harold Best02/12/2002Leeds North WestLabourSigned
David Taylor02/12/2002North West LeicestershireLabour Co-operativeSigned
Derek Wyatt02/12/2002Sittingbourne & SheppeyLabourSigned
Annabelle Ewing03/12/2002PerthScottish National PartySigned
David Wright03/12/2002TelfordLabourSigned
Paul Truswell03/12/2002PudseyLabourSigned
Janet Dean03/12/2002BurtonLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn03/12/2002Islington NorthLabourSigned
Paul Marsden03/12/2002Shrewsbury & AtchamLiberal DemocratSigned
Andy King03/12/2002Rugby & KenilworthLabourSigned
Llew Smith03/12/2002Blaenau GwentLabourSigned
Jim Cousins03/12/2002Newcastle upon Tyne CentralLabourSigned
Clive Efford04/12/2002ElthamLabourSigned
Mike Hancock04/12/2002Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Ashok Kumar04/12/2002Middlesbrough South & East ClevelandLabourSigned
Alex Salmond04/12/2002Banff & BuchanScottish National PartySigned
Peter Pike04/12/2002BurnleyLabourSigned
Lady Hermon05/12/2002North DownUUPSigned
Michael Clapham05/12/2002Barnsley West & PenistoneLabourSigned
Jim Dobbin05/12/2002Heywood & MiddletonLabour Co-operativeSigned
Bill Etherington05/12/2002Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Betty Williams10/12/2002ConwyLabourSigned
Simon Thomas10/12/2002CeredigionPlaid CymruSigned
John Austin10/12/2002Erith & ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Jim Knight10/12/2002South DorsetLabourSigned
Marsha Singh10/12/2002Bradford WestLabourSigned
George Galloway10/12/2002Glasgow, KelvinLabourSigned
Ann Cryer11/12/2002KeighleyLabourSigned
John McDonnell12/12/2002Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
Kevin McNamara16/12/2002Kingston upon Hull NorthLabourSigned
David Hinchliffe17/12/2002WakefieldLabourSigned
Jeff Ennis17/12/2002Barnsley East & MexboroughLabourSigned
Hywel Williams17/12/2002CaernarfonPlaid CymruSigned
Patsy Calton18/12/2002CheadleLiberal DemocratSigned
Nick Harvey19/12/2002North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
Nigel Jones13/01/2003CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Connarty16/01/2003Falkirk EastLabourSigned
Don Foster21/01/2003BathLiberal DemocratSigned
Diane Abbott23/01/2003Hackney North & Stoke NewingtonLabourSigned
Peter Viggers23/01/2003GosportConservativeSigned
Huw Irranca-Davies30/01/2003OgmoreLabourSigned
Stephen Pound07/02/2003Ealing NorthLabourSigned
John Lyons07/02/2003Strathkelvin & BearsdenLabourSigned
Tony McWalter24/02/2003Hemel HempsteadLabour Co-operativeSigned
Angus Robertson03/03/2003MorayScottish National PartySigned
Andrew Stunell12/03/2003Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned

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