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Future Of UK Library Service

EDM number 248 in 2008-09, proposed by Kelvin Hopkins on 11/12/2008.
Categorised under the topic of Libraries.

That this House notes that UK libraries have made an essential contribution to the social, cultural and economic well-being of communities for the past 150 years and that more people in the UK visit libraries than football matches or cinemas; acknowledges that despite increased investment in the library service over the past decade, more needs to be done to keep libraries strong and central to their communities; therefore welcomes the launch of UNISON's report Taking Stock: The Future of our UK Library Service; supports the report's five point plan for a revitalised public library service maintained and improved by adequate resourcing and public funding, including empowered staff-shaping services in partnership with their local community, partnership working between libraries and councils across the UK, responsiveness to library users from all backgrounds and the provision of staff training and professional development; is confident that this fresh thinking will ensure that the library service can build on its past successes; and calls upon the Government to incorporate this plan as part of its current review of the library service.

This motion has been signed by a total of 72 MPs, 4 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Kelvin Hopkins11/12/2008Luton NorthLabourProposed
Peter Bottomley11/12/2008Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
David Anderson15/12/2008BlaydonLabourSeconded
Gordon Prentice15/12/2008PendleLabourSeconded
David Drew15/12/2008StroudLabourSeconded
John McDonnell15/12/2008Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSeconded
Andrew George15/12/2008St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Robert Wareing15/12/2008Liverpool, West DerbyIndependentSigned
David Taylor15/12/2008North West LeicestershireLabourSigned
John Battle15/12/2008Leeds WestLabourSigned
Andrew Dismore15/12/2008HendonLabourSigned
Alan Meale15/12/2008MansfieldLabourSigned
Lynne Jones15/12/2008Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Frank Cook16/12/2008Stockton NorthLabourSigned
Dai Davies16/12/2008Blaenau GwentIndependentSigned
Linda Riordan16/12/2008HalifaxLabourSigned
Katy Clark16/12/2008North Ayrshire and ArranLabourSigned
Ann Cryer16/12/2008KeighleyLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn16/12/2008Islington NorthLabourSigned
Martin Caton16/12/2008GowerLabourSigned
Eric Illsley16/12/2008Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Lindsay Hoyle16/12/2008ChorleyLabourSigned
David Heyes16/12/2008Ashton-under-LyneLabourSigned
Alan Simpson17/12/2008Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Nick Harvey17/12/2008North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
Edward O'Hara17/12/2008Knowsley SouthLabourSigned
John Hemming17/12/2008Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Mark Lazarowicz18/12/2008Edinburgh North and LeithLabourSigned
Keith Vaz18/12/2008Leicester EastLabourSigned
Joan Walley12/01/2009Stoke-on-Trent NorthLabourSigned
Angela Smith12/01/2009Sheffield, HillsboroughLabourSigned
Betty Williams12/01/2009ConwyLabourSigned
Ian Stewart12/01/2009EcclesLabourSigned
David Hamilton12/01/2009MidlothianLabourSigned
Fraser Kemp12/01/2009Houghton and Washington EastLabourSigned
Bob Laxton12/01/2009Derby NorthLabourSigned
Adrian Sanders12/01/2009TorbayLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Keetch12/01/2009HerefordLiberal DemocratSigned
Marsha Singh12/01/2009Bradford WestLabourSigned
Sally Keeble13/01/2009Northampton NorthLabourSigned
Bill Etherington14/01/2009Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Robert Walter14/01/2009North DorsetConservativeSigned
Mark Hunter14/01/2009CheadleLiberal DemocratSigned
Roger Godsiff15/01/2009Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small HeathLabourSigned
David Borrow15/01/2009South RibbleLabourSigned
Rudi Vis19/01/2009Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Eric Martlew20/01/2009CarlisleLabourSigned
Dari Taylor22/01/2009Stockton SouthLabourSigned
Nigel Evans26/01/2009Ribble ValleyConservativeSigned
Adrian Bailey26/01/2009West Bromwich WestLabourSigned
Albert Owen27/01/2009Ynys MLabourSigned
Michael Clapham27/01/2009Barnsley West and PenistoneLabourSigned
David Crausby09/02/2009Bolton North EastLabourSigned
Greg Pope10/02/2009HyndburnLabourSigned
Geraldine Smith12/02/2009Morecambe and LunesdaleLabourSigned
Gwyn Prosser23/02/2009DoverLabourSigned
Ronnie Campbell23/02/2009Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Judy Mallaber24/02/2009Amber ValleyLabourSigned
Andy Slaughter09/03/2009Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's BushLabourSigned
Lembit 19/03/2009MontgomeryshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Stephen Hepburn20/03/2009JarrowLabourSigned
Greg Mulholland20/03/2009Leeds North WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Don Touhig24/03/2009IslwynLabourSigned
David Chaytor25/03/2009Bury NorthLabourSigned
Jennifer Willott07/05/2009Cardiff CentralLiberal DemocratSigned
Parmjit Dhanda12/05/2009GloucesterLabourSigned
Austin Mitchell14/05/2009Great GrimsbyLabourSigned
Roger Berry20/05/2009KingswoodLabourSigned
Ian GibsonUnknownWithdrawn
Michael Jabez FosterUnknownWithdrawn
Lyn BrownUnknownWithdrawn
John HeppellUnknownWithdrawn

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