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Black And Ethnic Minority Women In Public Life

EDM number 1555 in 2006-07, proposed by Dawn Butler on 23/05/2007.

That this House celebrates the 20th anniversary of the current hon. Member for Hackney North and Stoke Newington becoming the first ethnic minority woman to be elected to Parliament; notes that the Fawcett Society's research shows that two decades later, ethnic minority women are still severely under-represented in Parliament, Government and public life; regrets that only three black women have ever been elected and there has never been an Asian woman MP; expresses concern that at the current pace of change it will take more than three centuries for Parliament to reflect the UK's population of ethnic minority women; and calls on the Government to renew its commitment to positive measures by extending the time limit on all-women shortlists and prioritising the needs of ethnic minority women.

This motion has been signed by a total of 42 MPs, 2 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Dawn Butler23/05/2007Brent SouthLabourProposed
Andrew George23/05/2007St IvesLiberal DemocratSeconded
Stephen Williams24/05/2007Bristol WestLiberal DemocratSeconded
Laura Moffatt24/05/2007CrawleyLabourSeconded
Lynne Jones24/05/2007Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSeconded
Jim Devine24/05/2007LivingstonLabourSeconded
Martin Caton24/05/2007GowerLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn24/05/2007Islington NorthLabourSigned
Mike Hancock04/06/2007Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
John Hemming04/06/2007Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Ian Gibson04/06/2007Norwich NorthLabourSigned
Michael Jabez Foster04/06/2007Hastings and RyeLabourSigned
Evan Harris04/06/2007Oxford West and AbingdonLiberal DemocratSigned
Vincent Cable05/06/2007TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Ann Cryer05/06/2007KeighleyLabourSigned
Janet Dean06/06/2007BurtonLabourSigned
Paul Truswell06/06/2007PudseyLabourSigned
Karen Buck07/06/2007Regent's Park and Kensington NorthLabourSigned
Mark Williams07/06/2007CeredigionLiberal DemocratSigned
David Anderson11/06/2007BlaydonLabourSigned
Nick Harvey11/06/2007North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Meale11/06/2007MansfieldLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins12/06/2007Luton NorthLabourSigned
Chris McCafferty12/06/2007Calder ValleyLabourSigned
David Drew12/06/2007StroudLabourSigned
Alan Simpson13/06/2007Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Rudi Vis13/06/2007Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Simon Hughes15/06/2007North Southwark and BermondseyLiberal DemocratSigned
Mark Durkan15/06/2007FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Katy Clark19/06/2007North Ayrshire and ArranLabourSigned
Alasdair McDonnell20/06/2007Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Brian Jenkins25/06/2007TamworthLabourSigned
Harry Cohen26/06/2007Leyton and WansteadLabourSigned
Neil Gerrard26/06/2007WalthamstowLabourSigned
Bill Etherington28/06/2007Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Lyn Brown02/07/2007West HamLabourSigned
Lynne Featherstone05/07/2007Hornsey and Wood GreenLiberal DemocratSigned
Marsha Singh10/07/2007Bradford WestLabourSigned
John Battle19/07/2007Leeds WestLabourSigned
Sarah Teather25/07/2007Brent EastLiberal DemocratSigned
Sadiq KhanUnknownWithdrawn
Joan RuddockUnknownWithdrawn

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