90th Anniversary Of First Woman Hon. Member

EDM number 328 in 2009-10, proposed by Jo Swinson on 02/12/2009.
Categorised under the topics of Equality and Members of Parliament.

That this House celebrates the 90th anniversary on 1 December 2009 of the day that Nancy Astor became the first woman to take her seat in the House of Commons; notes that just 291 women have succeeded her as hon. Members in the House and that currently only one in five hon. Members are women; and calls on all political parties to redouble their efforts to improve the representation of women to make gender balance in Parliament a reality.

This motion has been signed by a total of 42 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Jo Swinson	02/12/2009	East Dunbartonshire	Liberal Democrat	Proposed
Andrew George	02/12/2009	St Ives	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Peter Bottomley	02/12/2009	Worthing West	Conservative	Seconded
Mark Durkan	02/12/2009	Foyle	Social Democratic and Labour Party	Seconded
David Taylor	03/12/2009	North West Leicestershire	Labour	Withdrawn
Andrew Dismore	03/12/2009	Hendon	Labour	Seconded
David Drew	03/12/2009	Stroud	Labour	Seconded
Stephen Williams	03/12/2009	Bristol West	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Derek Wyatt	03/12/2009	Sittingbourne & Sheppey	Labour	Signed
Mike Gapes	03/12/2009	Ilford South	Labour	Signed
Lynne Jones	03/12/2009	Birmingham, Selly Oak	Labour	Signed
John Pugh	03/12/2009	Southport	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Betty Williams	07/12/2009	Conwy	Labour	Signed
Keith Vaz	07/12/2009	Leicester East	Labour	Signed
Mike Hancock	07/12/2009	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Ann Cryer	07/12/2009	Keighley	Labour	Signed
Menzies Campbell	07/12/2009	Fife North East	Liberal Democrat	Signed
David Lepper	07/12/2009	Brighton, Pavilion	Labour	Signed
Eric Illsley	07/12/2009	Barnsley Central	Labour	Signed
Kelvin Hopkins	07/12/2009	Luton North	Labour	Signed
Marsha Singh	07/12/2009	Bradford West	Labour	Signed
Mark Williams	08/12/2009	Ceredigion	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Martin Caton	08/12/2009	Gower	Labour	Signed
Annette Brooke	08/12/2009	Mid Dorset & North Poole	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Colin Breed	08/12/2009	South East Cornwall	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Mark Hunter	09/12/2009	Cheadle	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Jennifer Willott	09/12/2009	Cardiff Central	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Leech	09/12/2009	Manchester, Withington	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Phil Willis	09/12/2009	Harrogate & Knaresborough	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Jim Dobbin	09/12/2009	Heywood & Middleton	Labour	Signed
Janet Dean	09/12/2009	Burton	Labour	Signed
Denis Murphy	09/12/2009	Wansbeck	Labour	Signed
George Howarth	09/12/2009	Knowsley North & Sefton East	Labour	Signed
Rudi Vis	10/12/2009	Finchley & Golders Green	Labour	Signed
Nick Harvey	14/12/2009	North Devon	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Mason	15/12/2009	Glasgow East	Scottish National Party	Signed
Charlotte Atkins	15/12/2009	Staffordshire Moorlands	Labour	Signed
Sandra Gidley	15/12/2009	Romsey	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Alan Simpson	07/01/2010	Nottingham South	Labour	Signed
Bill Etherington	19/01/2010	Sunderland North	Labour	Signed
Shona McIsaac	20/01/2010	Cleethorpes	Labour	Signed
Bruce George	08/02/2010	Walsall South	Labour	Signed

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