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<id>19121</id>
<session>1999-00</session>
<number>119</number>
<title>30th ANNIVERSARY OF THE WOMEN'S NATIONAL COMMISSION</title>
<proposer id="10519">Joan Ruddock</proposer>
<date>1999-11-30</date>
<text>That this House sends its warmest congratulations to the Women's National Commission on 30 years of ensuring that the views of women in this country are made known to government; notes that following a comprehensive review, the WNC is being modernised and strengthened and currently has more that 100 partners representing eight million women; applauds its role in compiling the National Agenda for Action, following the United Nations Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995; welcomes the WNC's role in encouraging more women to take an active role in public life; further welcomes its work on Women @ the Millennium in conjunction with the Equal Opportunities Commission for Great Britain and the Equality Commission in Northern Ireland; and looks forward to the imminent publication of its report to the United Nations on the United Kingdom Government's response to key areas of action on women's human rights.</text>
<topics>
</topics>
<signatures>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10519">Joan Ruddock</mp>
		<date>1999-11-30</date>
		<type>Proposed</type>
		<constituency>Lewisham, Deptford</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10200">Lorna Fitzsimons</mp>
		<date>1999-11-30</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Rochdale</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10261">Evan Harris</mp>
		<date>1999-11-30</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Oxford West &amp; Abingdon</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10509">Marion Roe</mp>
		<date>1999-11-30</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Broxbourne</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10024">Jackie Ballard</mp>
		<date>1999-11-30</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Taunton</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10442">Julie Morgan</mp>
		<date>1999-11-30</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Cardiff North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10018">Charlotte Atkins</mp>
		<date>1999-11-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Staffordshire Moorlands</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10046">Liz Blackman</mp>
		<date>1999-11-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Erewash</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10585">Dari Taylor</mp>
		<date>1999-11-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Stockton South</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10619">Joan Walley</mp>
		<date>1999-11-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Stoke-on-Trent North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10640">Betty Williams</mp>
		<date>1999-11-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Conwy</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10235">Eileen Gordon</mp>
		<date>1999-11-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Romford</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10233">Llin Golding</mp>
		<date>1999-11-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Newcastle-under-Lyme</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10166">Janet Dean</mp>
		<date>1999-11-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Burton</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10299">Joan Humble</mp>
		<date>1999-11-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Blackpool North &amp; Fleetwood</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10341">Oona King</mp>
		<date>1999-11-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bethnal Green &amp; Bow</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10350">Jackie Lawrence</mp>
		<date>1999-11-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Preseli Pembrokeshire</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10466">Diana Organ</mp>
		<date>1999-11-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Forest of Dean</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10156">Valerie Davey</mp>
		<date>1999-11-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bristol West</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10648">Rosie Winterton</mp>
		<date>1999-12-01</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Doncaster Central</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10048">Hazel Blears</mp>
		<date>1999-12-01</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Salford</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10026">Harry Barnes</mp>
		<date>1999-12-01</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North East Derbyshire</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10230">Norman Godman</mp>
		<date>1999-12-01</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Greenock &amp; Inverclyde</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10222">Andrew George</mp>
		<date>1999-12-01</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>St Ives</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10178">Julia Drown</mp>
		<date>1999-12-01</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>South Swindon</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10133">Jeremy Corbyn</mp>
		<date>1999-12-01</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Islington North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10084">Vincent Cable</mp>
		<date>1999-12-01</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Twickenham</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10407">Alice Mahon</mp>
		<date>1999-12-01</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Halifax</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10346">Ashok Kumar</mp>
		<date>1999-12-01</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Middlesbrough South &amp; East Cleveland</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10513">Ernie Ross</mp>
		<date>1999-12-01</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Dundee West</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10021">John Austin</mp>
		<date>1999-12-02</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Erith &amp; Thamesmead</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10196">Ronnie Fearn</mp>
		<date>1999-12-02</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Southport</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10277">Stephen Hesford</mp>
		<date>1999-12-02</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wirral West</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10262">Nick Harvey</mp>
		<date>1999-12-02</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North Devon</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10017">Candy Atherton</mp>
		<date>1999-12-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Falmouth &amp; Camborne</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10258">Mike Hancock</mp>
		<date>1999-12-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Portsmouth South</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10244">Jane Griffiths</mp>
		<date>1999-12-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Reading East</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10186">Louise Ellman</mp>
		<date>1999-12-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Liverpool, Riverside</constituency>
		<party>Labour Co-operative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10096">Martin Caton</mp>
		<date>1999-12-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Gower</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10063">Tom Brake</mp>
		<date>1999-12-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Carshalton &amp; Wallington</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10564">Phyllis Starkey</mp>
		<date>1999-12-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Milton Keynes South West</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10476">Linda Perham</mp>
		<date>1999-12-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ilford North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10246">Win Griffiths</mp>
		<date>1999-12-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bridgend</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10185">Clive Efford</mp>
		<date>1999-12-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Eltham</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10150">Claire Curtis-Thomas</mp>
		<date>1999-12-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Crosby</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10138">Tom Cox</mp>
		<date>1999-12-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Tooting</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10437">Laura Moffatt</mp>
		<date>1999-12-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Crawley</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10323">Lynne Jones</mp>
		<date>1999-12-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Birmingham, Selly Oak</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10599">Jenny Tonge</mp>
		<date>1999-12-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Richmond Park</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10203">Paul Flynn</mp>
		<date>1999-12-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Newport West</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10189">Bill Etherington</mp>
		<date>1999-12-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Sunderland North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10184">Huw Edwards</mp>
		<date>1999-12-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Monmouth</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10142">Ann Cryer</mp>
		<date>1999-12-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Keighley</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10433">Ray Michie</mp>
		<date>1999-12-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Argyll &amp; Bute</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10432">Bill Michie</mp>
		<date>1999-12-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Sheffield, Heeley</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10331">Paul Keetch</mp>
		<date>1999-12-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hereford</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10308">Glenda Jackson</mp>
		<date>1999-12-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hampstead &amp; Highgate</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10521">Bob Russell</mp>
		<date>1999-12-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Colchester</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10343">Tess Kingham</mp>
		<date>1999-12-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Gloucester</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10124">Iain Coleman</mp>
		<date>1999-12-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hammersmith &amp; Fulham</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10215">Maria Fyfe</mp>
		<date>1999-12-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Glasgow, Maryhill</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10126">Tony Colman</mp>
		<date>1999-12-13</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Putney</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10372">Andrew Love</mp>
		<date>1999-12-13</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Edmonton</constituency>
		<party>Labour Co-operative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10070">Russell Brown</mp>
		<date>1999-12-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Dumfries</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10403">Tony McWalter</mp>
		<date>1999-12-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hemel Hempstead</constituency>
		<party>Labour Co-operative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10204">Barbara Follett</mp>
		<date>1999-12-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Stevenage</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10616">Rudi Vis</mp>
		<date>1999-12-20</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Finchley &amp; Golders Green</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10383">John McDonnell</mp>
		<date>2000-01-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hayes &amp; Harlington</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10649">Audrey Wise</mp>
		<date></date>
		<type>Withdrawn</type>
		<constituency></constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
</signatures>
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