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Visits By Scottish Schools To Auschwitz

EDM number 1466 in 2007-08, proposed by Willie Rennie on 30/04/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Religion and faith communities and Schools.

That this House commends the work of the Holocaust Educational Trust in educating school children throughout the United Kingdom on the history of the Holocaust and the ongoing threats of genocide throughout the world; supports the Government's programme to finance these visits and notes that last year the Trust successfully arranged its first direct flights from Scotland to allow more children in Scotland to participate and to share their experiences with their other school colleagues; but is dismayed to note that the SNP-led Scottish Executive supported by the Tory group in the Scottish Parliament have voted this month against the use of the Barnett consequential amounting to £150,000 per annum to continue funding these visits in Scotland; and calls upon the Secretary of State for Scotland when he next meets the First Minister to urge him urgently to reconsider this regressive and narrow-minded decision.

This motion has been signed by a total of 40 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Willie Rennie30/04/2008Dunfermline and West FifeLiberal DemocratProposed
Gordon Banks30/04/2008Ochil and South PerthshireLabourSeconded
Mark Lazarowicz30/04/2008Edinburgh North and LeithLabourSeconded
Ian Stewart30/04/2008EcclesLabourSeconded
Ian Davidson30/04/2008Glasgow South WestLabourSeconded
Sandra Osborne30/04/2008Ayr, Carrick and CumnockLabourSeconded
Elliot Morley30/04/2008ScunthorpeLabourSigned
Jim Devine30/04/2008LivingstonLabourSigned
Jim McGovern30/04/2008Dundee WestLabourSigned
Gavin Strang30/04/2008Edinburgh EastLabourSigned
Anne Begg30/04/2008Aberdeen SouthLabourSigned
David Hamilton30/04/2008MidlothianLabourSigned
Michael Connarty30/04/2008Linlithgow and East FalkirkLabourSigned
Tom Clarke30/04/2008Coatbridge, Chryston and BellshillLabourSigned
John McFall30/04/2008West DunbartonshireLabourSigned
Brian Iddon30/04/2008Bolton South EastLabourSigned
Jim Sheridan30/04/2008Paisley and Renfrewshire NorthLabourSigned
Mohammad Sarwar30/04/2008Glasgow CentralLabourSigned
John Robertson30/04/2008Glasgow North WestLabourSigned
Anne Moffat30/04/2008East LothianLabourSigned
Bill Etherington01/05/2008Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Mike Hancock06/05/2008Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Betty Williams06/05/2008ConwyLabourSigned
Ann Cryer06/05/2008KeighleyLabourSigned
Nigel Griffiths07/05/2008Edinburgh SouthLabourSigned
Alan Simpson07/05/2008Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Andrew Dismore07/05/2008HendonLabourSigned
Rudi Vis07/05/2008Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Hywel Francis08/05/2008AberavonLabourSigned
Janet Dean08/05/2008BurtonLabourSigned
Michael Clapham08/05/2008Barnsley West and PenistoneLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins09/05/2008Luton NorthLabourSigned
Eric Illsley09/05/2008Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Alistair Carmichael09/05/2008Orkney and ShetlandLiberal DemocratSigned
Jo Swinson09/05/2008East DunbartonshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Katy Clark12/05/2008North Ayrshire and ArranLabourSigned
David Borrow13/05/2008South RibbleLabourSigned
Iris Robinson14/05/2008StrangfordDUPSigned
David Crausby14/05/2008Bolton North EastLabourSigned
William McCrea17/06/2008South AntrimDUPSigned

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