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Procurement Of Innovative Technologies

EDM number 799 in 2005-06, proposed by Kitty Ussher on 19/10/2005.

That this House continues to be concerned that small UK science and technology businesses are at present significantly disadvantaged compared with their US competitors because of the absence of an effective UK programme similar to the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) programme in the US, which requires that federal government agencies spend a minimum proportion of their research and development budgets with small businesses according to a regular, timely and transparent competitive process; believes that the commercial exploitation of the UK science base for the benefit of the UK economy is being jeopardised as a result; notes that the introduction of such a scheme would be of benefit both to the UK Government departments commissioning research and development projects and to the companies undertaking them; supports the announcement in the Chancellor's Budget speech of 16th March of a similar measure giving small technology intensive companies a guaranteed £100 million share of public sector research contracts, but believes that, because of the special requirements of innovation projects and the inadequacy of normal Government procurement processes to deal with them, this initiative will be succesful only if legislation is introduced to define the processes involved in a similar way to the legislation underpinning the US SBIR programme; and therefore urges the Government to support proposals to introduce such legislation in a form similar to the Procurement of Innovative Technologies and Research Bill presented to the House by Anne Campbell on 22nd March.

This motion has been signed by a total of 80 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Kitty Ussher19/10/2005BurnleyLabourProposed
Janet Anderson19/10/2005Rossendale and DarwenLabourSeconded
Jim Dobbin19/10/2005Heywood and MiddletonLabourSeconded
Mark Lazarowicz19/10/2005Edinburgh North and LeithLabourSeconded
Paul Flynn19/10/2005Newport WestLabourSeconded
Ian Gibson20/10/2005Norwich NorthLabourSeconded
Chris McCafferty20/10/2005Calder ValleyLabourSigned
Andrew Dismore20/10/2005HendonLabourSigned
Mike Hancock20/10/2005Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Clive Efford21/10/2005ElthamLabourSigned
John Hemming21/10/2005Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Desmond Turner21/10/2005Brighton, KemptownLabourSigned
Martin Caton21/10/2005GowerLabourSigned
John McDonnell21/10/2005Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins21/10/2005Luton NorthLabourSigned
David Heath24/10/2005Somerton & FromeLiberal DemocratSigned
David Lepper24/10/2005Brighton, PavilionLabourSigned
David Crausby24/10/2005Bolton North EastLabourSigned
Peter Bottomley24/10/2005Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Rudi Vis24/10/2005Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Edward Vaizey25/10/2005WantageConservativeSigned
Ann Cryer25/10/2005KeighleyLabourSigned
Annette Brooke25/10/2005Mid Dorset and North PooleLiberal DemocratSigned
Rob Marris26/10/2005Wolverhampton South WestLabourSigned
Piara S Khabra27/10/2005Ealing, SouthallLabourSigned
Bill Olner27/10/2005NuneatonLabourSigned
Colin Challen27/10/2005Morley and RothwellLabourSigned
Michael Clapham27/10/2005Barnsley West and PenistoneLabourSigned
Mark Durkan27/10/2005FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Madeleine Moon27/10/2005BridgendLabourSigned
Phyllis Starkey28/10/2005Milton Keynes South WestLabourSigned
Stewart Hosie28/10/2005Dundee EastScottish National PartySigned
Gordon Banks28/10/2005Ochil and South PerthshireLabourSigned
Joan Walley28/10/2005Stoke-on-Trent NorthLabourSigned
Mark Todd28/10/2005South DerbyshireLabourSigned
Bill Etherington28/10/2005Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
David Drew28/10/2005StroudLabourSigned
Frank Doran28/10/2005Aberdeen NorthLabourSigned
Ann McKechin28/10/2005Glasgow NorthLabourSigned
Joan Ruddock28/10/2005Lewisham, DeptfordLabourSigned
Betty Williams31/10/2005ConwyLabourSigned
Jim McGovern31/10/2005Dundee WestLabourSigned
Jessica Morden31/10/2005Newport EastLabourSigned
Lynda Waltho31/10/2005StourbridgeLabourSigned
Fraser Kemp31/10/2005Houghton and Washington EastLabourSigned
Frank Cook31/10/2005Stockton NorthLabourSigned
David Hamilton31/10/2005MidlothianLabourSigned
Albert Owen31/10/2005Ynys MLabourSigned
Tom Clarke31/10/2005Coatbridge, Chryston and BellshillLabourSigned
David Clelland31/10/2005Tyne BridgeLabourSigned
Austin Mitchell01/11/2005Great GrimsbyLabourSigned
Sadiq Khan01/11/2005TootingLabourSigned
Alison Seabeck01/11/2005Plymouth, DevonportLabourSigned
Greg Pope02/11/2005HyndburnLabourSigned
Doug Henderson02/11/2005Newcastle upon Tyne NorthLabourSigned
Tony Wright02/11/2005Cannock ChaseLabourSigned
David Anderson02/11/2005BlaydonLabourSigned
Sharon Hodgson02/11/2005Gateshead East and Washington WestLabourSigned
Roberta Blackman-Woods02/11/2005City of DurhamLabourSigned
Rosie Cooper02/11/2005West LancashireLabourSigned
Pete Wishart03/11/2005Perth and North PerthshireScottish National PartySigned
Michael Weir03/11/2005AngusScottish National PartySigned
Alan Simpson03/11/2005Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Alex Salmond03/11/2005Banff and BuchanScottish National PartySigned
Angus Robertson03/11/2005MorayScottish National PartySigned
Fabian Hamilton03/11/2005Leeds North EastLabourSigned
Andrew Miller07/11/2005Ellesmere Port and NestonLabourSigned
Diane Abbott07/11/2005Hackney North and Stoke NewingtonLabourSigned
Sarah McCarthy-Fry07/11/2005Portsmouth NorthLabourSigned
Peter Soulsby07/11/2005Leicester SouthLabourSigned
Tony Lloyd09/11/2005Manchester CentralLabourSigned
Janet Dean11/11/2005BurtonLabourSigned
Eric Illsley14/11/2005Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Barry Sheerman16/11/2005HuddersfieldLabourSigned
Brian H Donohoe21/11/2005Central AyrshireLabourSigned
Adam Price30/11/2005Carmarthen East and DinefwrPlaid CymruSigned
Nicholas Winterton30/11/2005MacclesfieldConservativeSigned
Jim Cunningham12/12/2005Coventry SouthLabourSigned
Natascha Engel17/01/2006North East DerbyshireLabourSigned
Phil Willis20/01/2006Harrogate and KnaresboroughLiberal DemocratSigned

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