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UK Role In Global Nuclear Disarmament

EDM number 277 in 2008-09, proposed by Dai Davies on 15/12/2008.
Categorised under the topic of Arms control.

That this House welcomes the article, A world without nuclear weapons, by the Foreign Secretary, published on the Comment is Free section of The Guardian website on 8 December 2008; notes his claim that the United Kingdom is committed to working actively to create a world free from nuclear weapons; contrasts this assertion wth the oral response by the Secretary of State for Defence to the hon. Member for Islington North in topical questions at Defence Question Time on 3 November 2008, Official Report, column 16, that `it is vital for the long-term strategic security of the United Kingdom that we maintain our minimum nuclear deterrent. We are absolutely committed to doing so, and that will not change'; requests an assurance that the decision-making process in terms of replacement of the Trident nuclear submarine fleet will be governed by national interest and not the interest of levels of employment in particular constituencies; and calls upon the Government to demonstrate active support for the Global Zero campaign launched in Paris on 9 December 2008, to pro-actively reduce the United Kingdom nuclear weapons of mass destruction arsenal to zero, just as United States President-elect Barack Obama has committed his incoming administration to deliver with the United States and the Russian nuclear arsenals.

This motion has been signed by a total of 32 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Dai Davies15/12/2008Blaenau GwentIndependentProposed
Bob Spink16/12/2008Castle PointIndependentSeconded
Martin Caton16/12/2008GowerLabourSeconded
Jeremy Corbyn16/12/2008Islington NorthLabourSeconded
Frank Cook16/12/2008Stockton NorthLabourSeconded
Paul Holmes16/12/2008ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSeconded
Lynne Jones16/12/2008Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Ann Cryer16/12/2008KeighleyLabourSigned
David Drew16/12/2008StroudLabourSigned
Gordon Prentice17/12/2008PendleLabourSigned
John Hemming17/12/2008Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Mike Hancock17/12/2008Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Mark Durkan17/12/2008FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
David Lepper17/12/2008Brighton, PavilionLabourSigned
Alan Simpson17/12/2008Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Hywel Williams18/12/2008CaernarfonPlaid CymruSigned
John McDonnell18/12/2008Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Neil Gerrard18/12/2008WalthamstowLabourSigned
Colin Challen18/12/2008Morley and RothwellLabourSigned
Evan Harris18/12/2008Oxford West and AbingdonLiberal DemocratSigned
Julie Morgan12/01/2009Cardiff NorthLabourSigned
Marsha Singh12/01/2009Bradford WestLabourSigned
Andrew Stunell12/01/2009Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
Richard Burden13/01/2009Birmingham, NorthfieldLabourSigned
Jim Cousins13/01/2009Newcastle upon Tyne CentralLabourSigned
Desmond Turner13/01/2009Brighton, KemptownLabourSigned
Elfyn Llwyd14/01/2009Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Bill Etherington14/01/2009Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Rudi Vis19/01/2009Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Roger Godsiff26/01/2009Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small HeathLabourSigned
Andy Reed05/03/2009LoughboroughLabourSigned
Ian GibsonUnknownWithdrawn

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