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Butterflies

EDM number 1446 in 2007-08, proposed by Bob Russell on 28/04/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Animals, Nature conservation and Wildlife.

That this House registers its deep concern at the decline in the butterfly population, with numbers reported by the charity Butterfly Conservation to be at their lowest for 25 years, with the small tortoiseshell showing the biggest decline of 81 per cent; congratulates the thousands of volunteers who each year provide information for the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme operated by Butterfly Conservation and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology; welcomes the comments of Sir David Attenborough, President of Butterfly Conservation, who is promoting an appeal to raise funds for the charity's Stop Extinction Appeal; and calls on the Government to promote cross-departmental policies to assist in safeguarding Britain's butterflies.

This motion has been signed by a total of 44 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Bob Russell28/04/2008ColchesterLiberal DemocratProposed
Graham Stringer29/04/2008Manchester, BlackleyLabourSeconded
Alan Meale29/04/2008MansfieldLabourSeconded
Peter Bottomley29/04/2008Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Rudi Vis29/04/2008Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSeconded
Martin Caton29/04/2008GowerLabourSeconded
Andrew George29/04/2008St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Mike Hancock29/04/2008Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew Dismore29/04/2008HendonLabourSigned
Ann Cryer29/04/2008KeighleyLabourSigned
David Simpson29/04/2008Upper BannDUPSigned
Adrian Sanders29/04/2008TorbayLiberal DemocratSigned
Jeremy Corbyn30/04/2008Islington NorthLabourSigned
John Hemming30/04/2008Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Phil Willis30/04/2008Harrogate and KnaresboroughLiberal DemocratSigned
David Taylor30/04/2008North West LeicestershireLabourSigned
Paul Flynn30/04/2008Newport WestLabourSigned
David Drew30/04/2008StroudLabourSigned
Ronnie Campbell30/04/2008Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Colin Burgon30/04/2008ElmetLabourSigned
Laura Moffatt30/04/2008CrawleyLabourSigned
Gordon Marsden30/04/2008Blackpool SouthLabourSigned
Robert Key30/04/2008SalisburyConservativeSigned
Lynne Jones30/04/2008Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Lindsay Hoyle30/04/2008ChorleyLabourSigned
John Horam30/04/2008OrpingtonConservativeSigned
Bob Spink30/04/2008Castle PointUKIPSigned
Annette Brooke30/04/2008Mid Dorset and North PooleLiberal DemocratSigned
Bill Etherington01/05/2008Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Norman Baker01/05/2008LewesLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Jabez Foster07/05/2008Hastings and RyeLabourSigned
Janet Dean08/05/2008BurtonLabourSigned
Dai Davies08/05/2008Blaenau GwentIndependentSigned
Edward O'Hara08/05/2008Knowsley SouthLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins09/05/2008Luton NorthLabourSigned
Alistair Carmichael09/05/2008Orkney and ShetlandLiberal DemocratSigned
Jo Swinson09/05/2008East DunbartonshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Katy Clark12/05/2008North Ayrshire and ArranLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins13/05/2008TamworthLabourSigned
Iris Robinson14/05/2008StrangfordDUPSigned
David Crausby14/05/2008Bolton North EastLabourSigned
John McDonnell23/06/2008Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
John Barrett04/11/2008Edinburgh WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Hugo Swire06/11/2008East DevonConservativeSigned

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