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EDM number 845 in 2005-06, proposed by Andrew Mackinlay on 24/10/2005.

That this House recalls three decades ago the enormous furore caused, and the humbug advanced, by those people who had an interest in resisting daylight and transparency descending on the arcane process of the machinery of government and decision-making when Harold Wilson published his memoire A Personal Record — The Labour Government 1964-70, and Richard Crossman and his estate published The Diaries of a Cabinet Minister; regrets that similar forces exist in this generation, designed to minimise openness; believes that everyone in public life should try to record their recollections of key conversations and events to which they are privy for posterity as history; and in this regard encourages Sir Jeremy Greenstock and Sir Christopher Meyer to resist all pressures and `publish and be damned'.

This motion has been signed by a total of 22 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Andrew MacKinlay24/10/2005ThurrockLabourProposed
Ian Gibson25/10/2005Norwich NorthLabourSeconded
Lynne Jones25/10/2005Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSeconded
Paul Flynn25/10/2005Newport WestLabourSeconded
Graham Stringer25/10/2005Manchester, BlackleyLabourSeconded
Peter Bottomley25/10/2005Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Rudi Vis26/10/2005Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
John Hemming26/10/2005Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Tony Baldry26/10/2005BanburyConservativeSigned
Ann Cryer26/10/2005KeighleyLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn26/10/2005Islington NorthLabourSigned
Martin Caton26/10/2005GowerLabourSigned
Ronnie Campbell26/10/2005Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Chris McCafferty27/10/2005Calder ValleyLabourSigned
Vincent Cable27/10/2005TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Desmond Turner27/10/2005Brighton, KemptownLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins31/10/2005Luton NorthLabourSigned
Martin Horwood31/10/2005CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Clive Efford03/11/2005ElthamLabourSigned
Graham Stuart08/11/2005Beverley and HoldernessConservativeSigned
Eric Illsley14/11/2005Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
John McDonnell06/11/2006Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned

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