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Sustainable Farming

EDM number 194 in 2008-09, proposed by Lindsay Hoyle on 09/12/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Agriculture and environment and Food.

That this House calls on the Government to adopt policies on the procurement and purchasing of food supplied by farmers to the supermarkets and shops in their local area; recognises the quality of locally-grown and reared produce; further calls for efforts to ensure less environmental damage by reducing the number of food miles; further calls for the creation of sustainable communities by bringing together farmers and buyers; and further calls for the establishment of local farm co-operatives to help build relationships between food outlets and their neighbourhood farmers.

This motion has been signed by a total of 38 MPs, 2 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Lindsay Hoyle09/12/2008ChorleyLabourProposed
David Crausby09/12/2008Bolton North EastLabourSeconded
Peter Bottomley09/12/2008Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Andrew George09/12/2008St IvesLiberal DemocratSeconded
Mark Durkan09/12/2008FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySeconded
Nigel Evans09/12/2008Ribble ValleyConservativeSeconded
Lynne Jones10/12/2008Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Colin Breed10/12/2008South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Ronnie Campbell10/12/2008Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Martin Caton10/12/2008GowerLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn10/12/2008Islington NorthLabourSigned
David Drew10/12/2008StroudLabourSigned
David Taylor10/12/2008North West LeicestershireLabourSigned
Nicholas Winterton10/12/2008MacclesfieldConservativeSigned
John Leech10/12/2008Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Mike Hancock11/12/2008Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
James Gray11/12/2008North WiltshireConservativeSigned
Jim Dobbin11/12/2008Heywood and MiddletonLabourSigned
Ian Cawsey11/12/2008Brigg and GooleLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins11/12/2008TamworthLabourSigned
Alan Simpson11/12/2008Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Ann Cryer11/12/2008KeighleyLabourSigned
John McDonnell15/12/2008Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Betty Williams15/12/2008ConwyLabourSigned
Robert Walter16/12/2008North DorsetConservativeSigned
Bill Etherington16/12/2008Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Janet Dean16/12/2008BurtonLabourSigned
Frank Cook16/12/2008Stockton NorthLabourSigned
Eric Illsley16/12/2008Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Greg Mulholland17/12/2008Leeds North WestLiberal DemocratSigned
David Hamilton12/01/2009MidlothianLabourSigned
Rudi Vis19/01/2009Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Adam Price26/01/2009Carmarthen East and DinefwrPlaid CymruSigned
Albert Owen27/01/2009Ynys MLabourSigned
Christopher Huhne28/01/2009EastleighLiberal DemocratSigned
Simon Hughes11/11/2009North Southwark and BermondseyLiberal DemocratSigned
David WrightUnknownWithdrawn
Michael Jabez FosterUnknownWithdrawn

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