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Afghanistan Drug Cultivation

EDM number 749 in 2005-06, proposed by Paul Flynn on 12/10/2005.

That this House notes that spending £115 million of taxpayers' money on the eradication of heroin production in Afghanistan has failed, with a reduction of only 2 per cent. in production in 2004 compared with the previous year's record harvest; questions the planned spending of a further £155 million in an impossible mission; is convinced that a fall in heroin exports from Afghanistan will be replaced with increased production from Myanmar and Pakistan; and urges the diversion of poppy cultivation into legal diamorphine production to answer the current world shortage of this valuable, widely used medicine.

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

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Paul Flynn12/10/2005Newport WestLabourProposed
Alan Simpson13/10/2005Nottingham SouthLabourSeconded
Bill Etherington14/10/2005Sunderland NorthLabourSeconded
Kelvin Hopkins14/10/2005Luton NorthLabourSeconded
Mike Hancock14/10/2005Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSeconded
Desmond Turner17/10/2005Brighton, KemptownLabourSeconded
Ann Cryer17/10/2005KeighleyLabourSigned
David Taylor17/10/2005North West LeicestershireLabourSigned
Colin Breed18/10/2005South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew Pelling18/10/2005Croydon CentralConservativeSigned
Jeremy Corbyn19/10/2005Islington NorthLabourSigned
Rudi Vis19/10/2005Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Ronnie Campbell19/10/2005Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Brian Iddon20/10/2005Bolton South EastLabourSigned
Lynne Jones20/10/2005Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Chris McCafferty20/10/2005Calder ValleyLabourSigned
Paul Keetch21/10/2005HerefordLiberal DemocratSigned
John McDonnell21/10/2005Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Alan Meale25/10/2005MansfieldLabourSigned
David Hamilton31/10/2005MidlothianLabourSigned
Neil Gerrard01/11/2005WalthamstowLabourSigned
Elfyn Llwyd08/11/2005Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Eric Illsley14/11/2005Barnsley CentralLabourSigned

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