Conduct Of The Honourable Member For Thanet South And The Scott Inquiry
EDM number 1220 in 1994-95, proposed by Stephen Byers on 09/06/1995.
That this House notes that on 2nd or 3rd September 1992 the Right honourable Member for Thanet South signed a public interest immunity certificate covering documents required by the defence in the Matrix Churchill case; believes that the only reason the certificate was not used was due to the intervention of the Treasury Solicitor; deplores the action of the Right honourable Member when the documents covered by the certificate included reports relating to the supply of arms to Iraq by BMARC, a company of which he was a director at the relevant time; is further concerned at the Right honourable Member's refusal to disclose the two sets of evidence that he has submitted to Sir Richard Scott's inquiry, especially given his position as a director of BMARC when its parent company Astra acquired in July 1989 the Belgian company PRB which was responsible for manufacturing the propellant for use by the Iraqui supergun and that at the same time as the Right honourable Member was Deputy Chairman of Aitken Hume it was acting as financial advisers to Walter Somers, who produced part of the supergun, and when one of Aitken Hume's directors, a Mr S. Twentyman, was also a director of Sheffield Forgemasters who built the remainder of the supergun; and believes that in the public interest the Right honourable Member for Thanet South should disclose his evidence to the Scott Inquiry and make a full personal statement to the House.
This motion has been signed by a total of 46 MPs.
| MP | Date | Constituency | Party | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stephen Byers | 09/06/1995 | Wallsend | Proposed | |
| Alan Wynne Williams | 12/06/1995 | Carmarthen | Signed | |
| Harry Barnes | 12/06/1995 | North East Derbyshire | Signed | |
| Norman Godman | 12/06/1995 | Greenock and Port Glasgow | Signed | |
| Jimmy Dunnachie | 12/06/1995 | Glasgow, Pollok | Signed | |
| Jim Dowd | 12/06/1995 | Lewisham West | Signed | |
| John Cummings | 12/06/1995 | Easington | Signed | |
| Jeremy Corbyn | 12/06/1995 | Islington North | Signed | |
| Bill Michie | 12/06/1995 | Sheffield, Heeley | Signed | |
| Rachel Squire | 12/06/1995 | Dunfermline West | Signed | |
| Colin Pickthall | 12/06/1995 | West Lancashire | Signed | |
| Dennis Turner | 13/06/1995 | Wolverhampton South East | Signed | |
| Jack Thompson | 13/06/1995 | Wansbeck | Signed | |
| John Denham | 13/06/1995 | Southampton, Itchen | Signed | |
| Michael Connarty | 13/06/1995 | Falkirk East | Signed | |
| Lynne Jones | 13/06/1995 | Birmingham, Selly Oak | Signed | |
| Eric Illsley | 13/06/1995 | Barnsley Central | Signed | |
| Robert Parry | 13/06/1995 | Liverpool, Riverside | Signed | |
| Mike Hall | 14/06/1995 | Warrington South | Signed | |
| Richard Burden | 14/06/1995 | Birmingham, Northfield | Signed | |
| Eddie Loyden | 14/06/1995 | Liverpool, Garston | Signed | |
| Dennis Skinner | 14/06/1995 | Bolsover | Signed | |
| David Winnick | 15/06/1995 | Walsall North | Signed | |
| Mike Watson | 15/06/1995 | Glasgow Central | Signed | |
| Win Griffiths | 15/06/1995 | Bridgend | Signed | |
| Neil Gerrard | 15/06/1995 | Walthamstow | Signed | |
| Bill Etherington | 15/06/1995 | Sunderland North | Signed | |
| Anne Campbell | 15/06/1995 | Cambridge | Signed | |
| Keith Bradley | 15/06/1995 | Manchester, Withington | Signed | |
| Terry Lewis | 15/06/1995 | Worsley | Signed | |
| Helen Jackson | 15/06/1995 | Sheffield, Hillsborough | Signed | |
| Alan Simpson | 15/06/1995 | Nottingham South | Signed | |
| Denis MacShane | 19/06/1995 | Rotherham | Signed | |
| Michael Clapham | 19/06/1995 | Barnsley West & Penistone | Signed | |
| David Clelland | 19/06/1995 | Tyne Bridge | Signed | |
| Clive Betts | 20/06/1995 | Sheffield, Attercliffe | Signed | |
| Roland Boyes | 20/06/1995 | Houghton and Washington | Signed | |
| Jean Corston | 21/06/1995 | Bristol East | Signed | |
| John Gunnell | 21/06/1995 | Leeds South and Morley | Signed | |
| Martin Redmond | 22/06/1995 | Don Valley | Signed | |
| Ken Livingstone | 22/06/1995 | Brent East | Signed | |
| Tommy Graham | 29/06/1995 | Renfrew West and Inverclyde | Signed | |
| Paul Flynn | 29/06/1995 | Newport West | Signed | |
| Harry Cohen | 29/06/1995 | Leyton | Signed | |
| Peter Kilfoyle | 29/06/1995 | Liverpool, Walton | Signed | |
| Martyn Jones | 06/07/1995 | Clwyd South West | Signed |
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