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Duty To Promote Gender Equality

EDM number 1428 in 2003-04, proposed by Angela Eagle on 30/06/2004.

That this House welcomes the publication of the White Paper, Fairness for All: A New Commission for Equality and Human Rights, published by the Department of Trade and Industry on 12th May, and wholeheartedly supports the Government's aim to create a fairer and more inclusive Britain; notes that recent statistics on the stubborn persistence of the gender pay gap demonstrate the need to make mechanisms protecting women from being discriminated against in pay purely on the grounds of their gender easier to understand and to use; believes that part of the solution is the introduction of a duty to promote gender equality similar to that enacted to combat racial discrimination in the Race Relations Amendment Act 2000 and that present in the draft Disability Discrimination Bill; further believes that the forthcoming Bill creating the Single Commission for Equality and Human Rights is the ideal legislative vehicle to introduce the positive duty to promote gender equality which has been promised since 1999; and calls upon the Government to include this public duty in the forthcoming Bill.

This motion has been signed by a total of 124 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Angela Eagle30/06/2004WallaseyLabourProposed
Lorna Fitzsimons30/06/2004RochdaleLabourSigned
Louise Ellman30/06/2004Liverpool, RiversideLabour Co-operativeSigned
Gwyneth Dunwoody30/06/2004Crewe & NantwichLabourSigned
Frank Dobson30/06/2004Holborn & St PancrasLabourSigned
Jim Cunningham30/06/2004Coventry SouthLabourSigned
Ann Cryer30/06/2004KeighleyLabourSigned
Jon Cruddas30/06/2004DagenhamLabourSigned
Michael Connarty30/06/2004Falkirk EastLabourSigned
Karen Buck30/06/2004Signed
Chris Bryant30/06/2004RhonddaLabourSigned
Kevin Brennan30/06/2004Cardiff WestLabourSigned
Albert Owen30/06/2004Ynys MLabourSigned
George Foulkes30/06/2004Carrick, Cumnock and Doon ValleyLabour Co-operativeSigned
Neil Gerrard30/06/2004WalthamstowLabourSigned
Shaun Woodward30/06/2004St Helens SouthLabourSigned
David Winnick30/06/2004Walsall NorthLabourSigned
Dave Watts30/06/2004St Helens NorthLabourSigned
David Taylor30/06/2004North West LeicestershireLabour Co-operativeSigned
Howard Stoate30/06/2004DartfordLabourSigned
Bob Blizzard30/06/2004WaveneyLabourSigned
Clive Betts30/06/2004Sheffield, AttercliffeLabourSigned
Anne Begg30/06/2004Aberdeen SouthLabourSigned
Vera Baird30/06/2004RedcarLabourSigned
Candy Atherton30/06/2004Falmouth & CamborneLabourSigned
Janet Anderson30/06/2004Rossendale & DarwenLabourSigned
Irene Adams30/06/2004Paisley NorthLabourSigned
Diana Organ30/06/2004Forest of DeanLabourSigned
Kali Mountford30/06/2004Colne ValleyLabourSigned
Chris Mole30/06/2004IpswichLabourSigned
Helen Jackson30/06/2004Sheffield, HillsboroughLabourSigned
George Howarth30/06/2004Knowsley North & Sefton EastLabourSigned
David Hinchliffe30/06/2004WakefieldLabourSigned
Dennis Skinner30/06/2004BolsoverLabourSigned
Alan Simpson30/06/2004Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Clare Short30/06/2004Birmingham, LadywoodLabourSigned
Brian Sedgemore30/06/2004Hackney South & ShoreditchLabourSigned
Ernie Ross30/06/2004Dundee WestLabourSigned
Terry Rooney30/06/2004Bradford NorthLabourSigned
Ken Purchase30/06/2004Wolverhampton North EastLabour/Co-operativeSigned
Greg Pope30/06/2004HyndburnLabourSigned
Julie Morgan30/06/2004Cardiff NorthLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins30/06/2004TamworthLabourSigned
Helen Jones30/06/2004Warrington NorthLabourSigned
Michael Meacher30/06/2004Oldham West & RoytonLabourSigned
Rosemary McKenna30/06/2004Cumbernauld & KilsythLabourSigned
Ann McKechin30/06/2004Glasgow, MaryhillLabourSigned
Gordon Marsden30/06/2004Blackpool SouthLabourSigned
Alice Mahon30/06/2004HalifaxLabourSigned
Ian Lucas30/06/2004WrexhamLabourSigned
Andrew Love30/06/2004EdmontonLabour Co-operativeSigned
Kevan Jones30/06/2004North DurhamLabourSigned
Sally Keeble30/06/2004Northampton NorthLabourSigned
Peter Kilfoyle30/06/2004Liverpool, WaltonLabourSigned
Tom Levitt30/06/2004High PeakLabourSigned
Tony Lloyd30/06/2004Manchester CentralLabourSigned
Rudi Vis01/07/2004Finchley & Golders GreenLabourSigned
Harry Barnes01/07/2004North East DerbyshireLabourSigned
Janet Dean01/07/2004BurtonLabourSigned
Martin Caton01/07/2004GowerLabourSigned
Kevin McNamara01/07/2004Kingston upon Hull NorthLabourSigned
Glenda Jackson01/07/2004Hampstead & HighgateLabourSigned
Eric Illsley01/07/2004Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Stephen Hesford01/07/2004Wirral WestLabourSigned
John Austin05/07/2004Erith & ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Sandra Gidley05/07/2004RomseyLiberal DemocratSigned
Derek Foster05/07/2004Bishop AucklandLabourSigned
Paul Flynn05/07/2004Newport WestLabourSigned
Hilton Dawson05/07/2004Lancaster & WyreLabourSigned
Tony Banks05/07/2004West HamLabourSigned
Roger Berry05/07/2004KingswoodLabourSigned
Harold Best05/07/2004Leeds North WestLabourSigned
Desmond Turner05/07/2004Brighton, KemptownLabourSigned
Joan Walley05/07/2004Stoke-on-Trent NorthLabourSigned
Alan Whitehead05/07/2004Southampton, TestLabourSigned
Betty Williams05/07/2004ConwyLabourSigned
Valerie Davey05/07/2004Bristol WestLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn05/07/2004Islington NorthLabourSigned
Ann Clwyd05/07/2004Cynon ValleyLabourSigned
Colin Pickthall05/07/2004West LancashireLabourSigned
Linda Perham05/07/2004Ilford NorthLabourSigned
Joyce Quin05/07/2004Gateshead East & Washington WestLabourSigned
Phil Sawford05/07/2004KetteringLabourSigned
Clive Soley05/07/2004Signed
Beverley Hughes05/07/2004Stretford & UrmstonLabourSigned
Eric Martlew05/07/2004CarlisleLabourSigned
John McDonnell05/07/2004Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
Alan Meale05/07/2004MansfieldLabourSigned
Colin Challen05/07/2004Morley & RothwellLabourSigned
Michael Clapham05/07/2004Barnsley West & PenistoneLabourSigned
David Clelland05/07/2004Tyne BridgeLabourSigned
David Borrow06/07/2004South RibbleLabourSigned
Bill Etherington06/07/2004Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
David Drew06/07/2004StroudLabour Co-operativeSigned
Nigel Jones06/07/2004CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Lynne Jones06/07/2004Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Lady Hermon06/07/2004North DownUUPSigned
Dennis Turner07/07/2004Wolverhampton South EastLabour Co-operativeSigned
Mike Hancock07/07/2004Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Huw Edwards07/07/2004MonmouthLabourSigned
Andrew Dismore07/07/2004HendonLabourSigned
Tony Clarke07/07/2004Northampton SouthLabourSigned
Vincent Cable07/07/2004TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Chris Smith07/07/2004Islington South & FinsburyLabourSigned
Stephen Pound07/07/2004Ealing NorthLabourSigned
Joan Humble08/07/2004Blackpool North & FleetwoodLabourSigned
Claire Curtis-Thomas08/07/2004CrosbyLabourSigned
Martin O'Neill12/07/2004OchilLabourSigned
Chris McCafferty12/07/2004Calder ValleyLabourSigned
Rob Marris12/07/2004Wolverhampton South WestLabourSigned
Anne Campbell13/07/2004CambridgeLabourSigned
David Hamilton13/07/2004MidlothianLabourSigned
Gregory Campbell14/07/2004East LondonderryDUPSigned
Annabelle Ewing14/07/2004PerthScottish National PartySigned
Bill Tynan15/07/2004Hamilton SouthLabourSigned
Win Griffiths15/07/2004BridgendLabourSigned
Peter Pike15/07/2004BurnleyLabourSigned
David Heyes20/07/2004Ashton-under-LyneLabourSigned
Doug Naysmith20/07/2004Bristol North WestLabour Co-operativeSigned
John Cryer20/07/2004HornchurchLabourSigned
Mohammad Sarwar21/07/2004Glasgow, GovanLabourSigned
David Chaytor21/07/2004Bury NorthLabourSigned
Sue Doughty07/09/2004GuildfordLiberal DemocratSigned
John Barrett14/09/2004Edinburgh WestLiberal DemocratSigned

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