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Official Recognition Of Darts As A Sport

EDM number 307 in 2005-06, proposed by Bob Russell on 13/06/2005.

That this House welcomes the decision of the Sports Councils of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to give official recognition that darts is a sport; pays tribute to the British Darts Organisation for the leading role it has played in ensuring that darts is given its rightful status as a sport, and to all others involved in the campaign, including the Professional Darts Corporation; notes that darts is played by millions of people and has always enjoyed popular acclaim as being a sport although national sports bodies have hitherto declined to recognise it as such; and looks forward to an even brighter future for British darts as a result of the official declaration that it is a sport with competitors rightly entitled to the description sportsmen and sportswomen.

This motion has been signed by a total of 23 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Bob Russell13/06/2005ColchesterLiberal DemocratProposed
Martin Caton14/06/2005GowerLabourSeconded
Albert Owen14/06/2005Ynys MLabourSeconded
Stephen Hepburn15/06/2005JarrowLabourSeconded
Andrew Dismore15/06/2005HendonLabourSeconded
Paul Keetch15/06/2005HerefordLiberal DemocratSeconded
Brian Jenkins16/06/2005TamworthLabourSigned
Vincent Cable16/06/2005TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
David Hamilton16/06/2005MidlothianLabourSigned
Mike Hancock16/06/2005Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Rudi Vis16/06/2005Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Adam Price20/06/2005Carmarthen East and DinefwrPlaid CymruSigned
Tom Brake20/06/2005Carshalton and WallingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Jeremy Browne21/06/2005TauntonLiberal DemocratSigned
Simon Hughes22/06/2005North Southwark and BermondseyLiberal DemocratSigned
Norman Lamb23/06/2005North NorfolkLiberal DemocratSigned
Roger Godsiff28/06/2005Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small HeathLabourSigned
Alan Simpson30/06/2005Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
John Hemming30/06/2005Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
John McDonnell04/07/2005Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Betty Williams05/07/2005ConwyLabourSigned
Bill Etherington14/07/2005Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Andrew Rosindell10/10/2005RomfordConservativeSigned

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