Butterflies

EDM number 8 in 2008-09, proposed by Bob Russell on 03/12/2008.
Categorised under the topic of Nature conservation.

That this House registers its deep concern at the decline in the butterfly population, with numbers reported by the charity Butterfly Conservation to be at their lowest for 25 years, with the small tortoiseshell showing the biggest decline of 81 per cent.; congratulates the thousands of volunteers who each year provide information for the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme operated by Butterfly Conservation and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology; welcomes the comments of Sir David Attenborough, President of Butterfly Conservation, who is promoting an appeal to raise funds for the charity's Stop Extinction Appeal; and calls on the Government to promote cross-departmental policies to assist in safeguarding Britain's butterflies.

This motion has been signed by a total of 92 MPs, 3 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Bob Russell	03/12/2008	Colchester	Liberal Democrat	Proposed
John Hemming	03/12/2008	Birmingham, Yardley	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Andrew George	03/12/2008	St Ives	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Peter Bottomley	03/12/2008	Worthing West	Conservative	Seconded
Adrian Sanders	04/12/2008	Torbay	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
David Drew	04/12/2008	Stroud	Labour	Seconded
David Taylor	04/12/2008	North West Leicestershire	Labour	Signed
Andrew Dismore	04/12/2008	Hendon	Labour	Signed
Colin Breed	04/12/2008	South East Cornwall	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Lynne Jones	04/12/2008	Birmingham, Selly Oak	Labour	Signed
Paul Flynn	08/12/2008	Newport West	Labour	Signed
Mike Hancock	08/12/2008	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Paul Truswell	08/12/2008	Pudsey	Labour	Signed
John Leech	08/12/2008	Manchester, Withington	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Daniel Rogerson	08/12/2008	North Cornwall	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Mark Williams	08/12/2008	Ceredigion	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Mark Hunter	08/12/2008	Cheadle	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Ann Cryer	08/12/2008	Keighley	Labour	Signed
Jeremy Corbyn	08/12/2008	Islington North	Labour	Signed
Derek Conway	08/12/2008	Old Bexley & Sidcup	Independent	Signed
Kelvin Hopkins	08/12/2008	Luton North	Labour	Signed
Lindsay Hoyle	08/12/2008	Chorley	Labour	Signed
Elfyn Llwyd	08/12/2008	Meirionnydd Nant Conwy	Plaid Cymru	Signed
David Maclean	08/12/2008	Penrith & The Border	Conservative	Signed
John McDonnell	08/12/2008	Hayes & Harlington	Labour	Signed
Alan Meale	08/12/2008	Mansfield	Labour	Signed
Annette Brooke	08/12/2008	Mid Dorset & North Poole	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Graham Stringer	09/12/2008	Manchester, Blackley	Labour	Signed
Dai Davies	10/12/2008	Blaenau Gwent	Independent	Signed
Willie Rennie	10/12/2008	Dunfermline & Fife West	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Anne Main	10/12/2008	St Albans	Conservative	Signed
Jo Swinson	10/12/2008	East Dunbartonshire	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Janet Dean	10/12/2008	Burton	Labour	Signed
Martin Caton	10/12/2008	Gower	Labour	Signed
Alistair Carmichael	10/12/2008	Orkney & Shetland	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Nick Harvey	10/12/2008	North Devon	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Michael Penning	11/12/2008	Hemel Hempstead	Conservative	Signed
Roger Williams	11/12/2008	Brecon & Radnorshire	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Battle	11/12/2008	Leeds West	Labour	Signed
David Lepper	11/12/2008	Brighton, Pavilion	Labour	Signed
Brian Jenkins	11/12/2008	Tamworth	Labour	Signed
John Pugh	11/12/2008	Southport	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Horam	15/12/2008	Orpington	Conservative	Signed
Don Foster	15/12/2008	Bath	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Rudi Vis	15/12/2008	Finchley & Golders Green	Labour	Signed
Bill Etherington	16/12/2008	Sunderland North	Labour	Signed
David Crausby	16/12/2008	Bolton North East	Labour	Signed
Frank Cook	16/12/2008	Stockton North	Labour	Signed
Tom Brake	17/12/2008	Carshalton & Wallington	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Simon Hughes	18/12/2008	North Southwark & Bermondsey	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Paul Burstow	18/12/2008	Sutton & Cheam	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Paul Rowen	12/01/2009	Rochdale	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Malcolm Bruce	12/01/2009	Gordon	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Lembit	19/01/2009	Montgomeryshire	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Bill Olner	28/01/2009	Nuneaton	Labour	Signed
Julia Goldsworthy	29/01/2009	Falmouth & Camborne	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Eddie McGrady	02/02/2009	South Down	Social Democratic and Labour Party	Signed
Tim Yeo	02/02/2009	South Suffolk	Conservative	Signed
Norman Baker	03/02/2009	Lewes	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Betty Williams	04/02/2009	Conwy	Labour	Signed
David Laws	05/02/2009	Yeovil	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Michael Mates	05/02/2009	East Hampshire	Conservative	Signed
David Curry	05/02/2009	Skipton & Ripon	Conservative	Signed
Jennifer Willott	09/02/2009	Cardiff Central	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Roger Berry	09/02/2009	Kingswood	Labour	Signed
Michael Ancram	09/02/2009	Devizes	Conservative	Signed
Mark Oaten	10/02/2009	Winchester	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Doug Naysmith	11/02/2009	Bristol North West	Labour	Signed
David Howarth	23/02/2009	Cambridge	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Norman Lamb	23/02/2009	North Norfolk	Liberal Democrat	Signed
James Gray	26/02/2009	North Wiltshire	Conservative	Signed
Joan Walley	04/03/2009	Stoke-on-Trent North	Labour	Signed
David Anderson	04/03/2009	Blaydon	Labour	Signed
Richard Younger-Ross	05/03/2009	Teignbridge	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Gavin Strang	05/03/2009	Edinburgh East	Labour	Signed
Harry Cohen	05/03/2009	Leyton & Wanstead	Labour	Signed
Malcolm Moss	05/03/2009	North East Cambridgeshire	Conservative	Signed
Andy Reed	05/03/2009	Loughborough	Labour	Signed
Frank Doran	06/03/2009	Aberdeen North	Labour	Signed
Dari Taylor	06/03/2009	Stockton South	Labour	Signed
Phil Willis	10/03/2009	Harrogate & Knaresborough	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Andrew Rosindell	11/03/2009	Romford	Conservative	Signed
David Heath	12/03/2009	Somerton & Frome	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Gummer	17/03/2009	Suffolk Coastal	Conservative	Signed
Julie Morgan	20/03/2009	Cardiff North	Labour	Signed
Helen Southworth	20/03/2009	Warrington South	Labour	Signed
Sandra Gidley	26/03/2009	Romsey	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Graham Stuart	21/04/2009	Beverley & Holderness	Conservative	Signed
Elliot Morley	23/04/2009	Scunthorpe	Labour	Signed
Ian Gibson	Unknown			Withdrawn
Michael Jabez Foster	Unknown			Withdrawn
David Wright	Unknown			Withdrawn

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