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Food Miles

EDM number 148 in 2007-08, proposed by James Paice on 07/11/2007.
Categorised under the topics of Aviation, Environmental protection, Food and Roads.

That this House notes with concern that carbon dioxide emissions from food transport for UK consumption increased by five per cent. last year; further notes that imports by air increased by 31 per cent. in 2006, equivalent to 65,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide; believes that the British farming industry and British consumers can play a key role in reducing food miles; calls on the Government to facilitate this by introducing country of origin food labelling; and urges public bodies to do everything they can within EU rules to source food for schools, hospitals and other public institutions locally.

This motion has been signed by a total of 51 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
James Paice07/11/2007South East CambridgeshireConservativeProposed
Peter Ainsworth07/11/2007East SurreyConservativeSeconded
Bill Wiggin07/11/2007LeominsterConservativeSeconded
Gregory Barker07/11/2007Bexhill and BattleConservativeSeconded
Anne McIntosh07/11/2007Vale of YorkConservativeSeconded
Richard Benyon07/11/2007NewburyConservativeSeconded
Colin Breed08/11/2007South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Peter Bottomley08/11/2007Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Rudi Vis08/11/2007Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Lynne Jones12/11/2007Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
David Jones12/11/2007Clwyd WestConservativeSigned
Nicholas Winterton12/11/2007MacclesfieldConservativeSigned
David Taylor12/11/2007North West LeicestershireLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins12/11/2007Luton NorthLabourSigned
Mark Lancaster13/11/2007North East Milton KeynesConservativeSigned
Dai Davies13/11/2007Blaenau GwentIndependentSigned
Tony Baldry13/11/2007BanburyConservativeSigned
Mike Hancock13/11/2007Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Jabez Foster13/11/2007Hastings and RyeLabourSigned
David Drew13/11/2007StroudLabourSigned
Derek Conway13/11/2007Old Bexley & SidcupConservativeSigned
Alan Meale13/11/2007MansfieldLabourSigned
David Maclean13/11/2007Penrith and The BorderConservativeSigned
Peter Luff13/11/2007Mid WorcestershireConservativeSigned
Tim Loughton13/11/2007East Worthing and ShorehamConservativeSigned
Robert Key13/11/2007SalisburyConservativeSigned
Jeremy Corbyn13/11/2007Islington NorthLabourSigned
Malcolm Moss14/11/2007North East CambridgeshireConservativeSigned
Doug Naysmith14/11/2007Bristol North WestLabourSigned
Martin Caton14/11/2007GowerLabourSigned
Janet Dean14/11/2007BurtonLabourSigned
Michael Penning14/11/2007Hemel HempsteadConservativeSigned
Alan Simpson15/11/2007Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Stephen Williams15/11/2007Bristol WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Mark Pritchard19/11/2007The WrekinConservativeSigned
Ann Cryer19/11/2007KeighleyLabourSigned
John Horam20/11/2007OrpingtonConservativeSigned
Brian Jenkins21/11/2007TamworthLabourSigned
Roger Godsiff21/11/2007Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small HeathLabourSigned
John Leech21/11/2007Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Bill Etherington22/11/2007Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Richard Younger-Ross22/11/2007TeignbridgeLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew Rosindell28/11/2007RomfordConservativeSigned
Christopher Fraser28/11/2007South West NorfolkConservativeSigned
Bob Spink10/12/2007Castle PointConservativeSigned
John McDonnell11/12/2007Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Andrew Selous07/01/2008South West BedfordshireConservativeSigned
Jeremy Wright31/01/2008Rugby and KenilworthConservativeSigned
Charles Hendry23/04/2008WealdenConservativeSigned
Nigel Dodds01/05/2008Belfast NorthDUPSigned
Mark Harper14/07/2008Forest of DeanConservativeSigned

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