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Threats To UK Trees From Invasive Pests And Diseases

EDM number 663 in 2012-13, proposed by Zac Goldsmith on 31/10/2012.
Categorised under the topic of Countryside.

That this House recognises the threat to the UK's native trees, woods and forests from the growing number of imported, invasive pests and diseases; expresses its concerns that the number of new pests and diseases, such as ash dieback, acute and chronic oak decline, chestnut blight, oak processionary moth andphytophthora ramorum, as recorded in the Countryside Restoration Trust's research report, has doubled over the past decade; welcomes the Government's ban on the import of ash trees to tackle ash dieback, and the Tree Health and Plant Biosecurity Action Plan launched in October 2011; but calls for increased resources to ensure both a rapid response to other such outbreaks and greater screening and control of imports to minimise this vector of disease; and further calls on the Government to require the relevant horticultural sectors to contribute more to the costs of inspection services and forestry research.

This motion has been signed by a total of 45 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Zac Goldsmith31/10/2012Richmond ParkConservativeProposed
Bob Russell31/10/2012ColchesterLiberal DemocratSeconded
Caroline Lucas31/10/2012Brighton, PavilionGreenSeconded
Barry Gardiner31/10/2012Brent NorthLabourSeconded
Peter Bottomley31/10/2012Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Martin Horwood31/10/2012CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSeconded
John Leech01/11/2012Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Graham Stringer01/11/2012Blackley and BroughtonLabourSigned
James Gray01/11/2012North WiltshireConservativeSigned
Nigel Dodds01/11/2012Belfast NorthDUPSigned
Alan Meale01/11/2012MansfieldLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn02/11/2012Islington NorthLabourSigned
Adrian Sanders05/11/2012TorbayLiberal DemocratSigned
Jim Shannon05/11/2012StrangfordDUPSigned
Kelvin Hopkins05/11/2012Luton NorthLabourSigned
Mark Durkan05/11/2012FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Frank Field05/11/2012BirkenheadLabourSigned
Martin Caton06/11/2012GowerLabourSigned
Lindsay Roy06/11/2012GlenrothesLabourSigned
Mark Williams06/11/2012CeredigionLiberal DemocratSigned
John McDonnell06/11/2012Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Mark Lazarowicz06/11/2012Edinburgh North and LeithLabourSigned
Nicholas Soames06/11/2012Mid SussexConservativeSigned
Margaret Ritchie06/11/2012South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Elfyn Llwyd06/11/2012Dwyfor MeirionnyddPlaid CymruSigned
David Simpson07/11/2012Upper BannDUPSigned
William McCrea07/11/2012South AntrimDUPSigned
David Crausby07/11/2012Bolton North EastLabourSigned
George Galloway07/11/2012Bradford WestRespectSigned
Andrew George07/11/2012St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Mike Hancock07/11/2012Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Yasmin Qureshi07/11/2012Bolton South EastLabourSigned
Mary Glindon07/11/2012North TynesideLabourSigned
John Pugh08/11/2012SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
Mike Weatherley08/11/2012HoveConservativeSigned
Virendra Sharma08/11/2012Ealing, SouthallLabourSigned
Clive Betts08/11/2012Sheffield South EastLabourSigned
Grahame Morris09/11/2012EasingtonLabourSigned
Lady Hermon12/11/2012North DownIndependentSigned
Julian Lewis12/11/2012New Forest EastConservativeSigned
Roger Godsiff12/11/2012Birmingham, Hall GreenLabourSigned
John Hemming12/11/2012Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Sandra Osborne19/11/2012Ayr, Carrick and CumnockLabourSigned
Naomi Long21/11/2012Belfast EastAllianceSigned
Andrew Stunell21/11/2012Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned

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