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Recognition Of Sir Ludwig Guttmann

EDM number 439 in 2012-13, proposed by Alan Beith on 03/09/2012.
Categorised under the topic of Sports.

That this House supports the Jewish News' campaign for Sir Ludwig Guttmann, the founder of the Paralympics, to be formally recognised by the Olympic Authorities; calls on the London Development Legacy Corporation, the Government and all relevant authorities to recognise Sir Ludwig in the post-Games Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park; notes that Sir Ludwig represents triumph in the face of adversity after he fled Nazi Germany and later became head of Stoke Mandeville Hospital's National Spinal Injury Centre which led him to establish the first Games for the disabled in 1948 which eventually paved the way for the realisation of his dream of a parallel Olympics for disabled people in 1960; and considers that it is therefore fitting, in this year of Olympic and Paralympic triumph for Great Britain, that Sir Ludwig Guttmann is formally recognised so that generations to come can be inspired by his significant contribution to the Paralympic movement.

This motion has been signed by a total of 38 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Alan Beith03/09/2012Berwick-upon-TweedLiberal DemocratProposed
Mark Durkan03/09/2012FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySeconded
Peter Bottomley03/09/2012Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Jeremy Corbyn04/09/2012Islington NorthLabourSeconded
James Arbuthnot04/09/2012North East HampshireConservativeSeconded
Bob Blackman04/09/2012Harrow EastConservativeSeconded
Julian Lewis04/09/2012New Forest EastConservativeSigned
David Morris04/09/2012Morecambe and LunesdaleConservativeSigned
Dan Rogerson04/09/2012North CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Don Foster04/09/2012BathLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Meale04/09/2012MansfieldLabourSigned
John McDonnell04/09/2012Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Glenda Jackson04/09/2012Hampstead and KilburnLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins04/09/2012Luton NorthLabourSigned
Andrew Stephenson05/09/2012PendleConservativeSigned
Michael Crockart05/09/2012Edinburgh WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Greg Mulholland05/09/2012Leeds North WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Christopher Huhne05/09/2012EastleighLiberal DemocratSigned
Jim Shannon05/09/2012StrangfordDUPSigned
Elfyn Llwyd05/09/2012Dwyfor MeirionnyddPlaid CymruSigned
Lady Hermon06/09/2012North DownIndependentSigned
Paul Flynn06/09/2012Newport WestLabourSigned
Mary Glindon06/09/2012North TynesideLabourSigned
George Galloway07/09/2012Bradford WestRespectSigned
Mike Hancock07/09/2012Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
John Leech10/09/2012Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Gordon Marsden11/09/2012Blackpool SouthLabourSigned
Therese Coffey11/09/2012Suffolk CoastalConservativeSigned
Stephen Williams11/09/2012Bristol WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Martin Caton11/09/2012GowerLabourSigned
Margaret Ritchie11/09/2012South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Naomi Long12/09/2012Belfast EastAllianceSigned
Sandra Osborne12/09/2012Ayr, Carrick and CumnockLabourSigned
Jim McGovern14/09/2012Dundee WestLabourSigned
Martin Horwood15/10/2012CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Julian Huppert15/10/2012CambridgeLiberal DemocratSigned
Menzies Campbell29/10/2012North East FifeLiberal DemocratSigned
Alasdair McDonnell05/11/2012Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned

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