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Down House Bid For World Heritage Status

EDM number 1806 in 2006-07, proposed by Ashok Kumar on 02/07/2007.

That this House notes with regret the failure of the International Council on Monuments and Sites to recognise Charles Darwin's former residence Down House as a significant site to the heritage of science and the consequent withdrawal of Down House's bid for World Heritage status; further notes the landmark scientific importance of Down House, where Charles Darwin wrote the revolutionary work On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; looks forward to the 150th anniversary of the publication of this work and the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth in 2009; welcomes the Government's offer to host an international conference to discuss the criteria for scientific World Heritage sites; calls on the International Council of Monuments and Sites to reconsider its evaluation of Down House and its criteria for World Heritage listing; and urges the Government to maintain its commitment to Down House's bid.

This motion has been signed by a total of 26 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Ashok Kumar02/07/2007Middlesbrough South and East ClevelandLabourProposed
Nigel Evans02/07/2007Ribble ValleyConservativeSeconded
Robert Key03/07/2007SalisburyConservativeSeconded
Andrew Dismore03/07/2007HendonLabourSeconded
Peter Bottomley03/07/2007Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Martin Caton03/07/2007GowerLabourSeconded
Alan Simpson03/07/2007Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn03/07/2007Islington NorthLabourSigned
Ann Cryer03/07/2007KeighleyLabourSigned
Derek Conway04/07/2007Old Bexley & SidcupConservativeSigned
Janet Dean04/07/2007BurtonLabourSigned
Rudi Vis04/07/2007Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins05/07/2007TamworthLabourSigned
Clive Efford05/07/2007ElthamLabourSigned
Alan Meale05/07/2007MansfieldLabourSigned
Greg Pope05/07/2007HyndburnLabourSigned
Michael Jabez Foster09/07/2007Hastings and RyeLabourSigned
Betty Williams09/07/2007ConwyLabourSigned
Phil Willis09/07/2007Harrogate and KnaresboroughLiberal DemocratSigned
Stephen Williams10/07/2007Bristol WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Colin Burgon11/07/2007ElmetLabourSigned
Bill Etherington12/07/2007Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Janet Anderson12/07/2007Rossendale and DarwenLabourSigned
John Battle12/07/2007Leeds WestLabourSigned
Eric Illsley25/07/2007Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
John McDonnell25/07/2007Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned

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