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<id>27454</id>
<session>2004-05</session>
<number>1014</number>
<title>WEARING OF SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL DRESS AT CAMBRIDGE GRADUATION CEREMONIES</title>
<proposer id="11312">Mike Weir</proposer>
<date>2005-04-04</date>
<text>That this House notes with concern the decision by Cambridge University to ban national dress from graduation ceremonies; further notes that this includes restrictions on the wearing of the kilt, Scotland's national dress; believes that the kilt has graced far greater stages than the Cambridge graduation ceremony; and calls on the University to reverse its decision with immediate effect.</text>
<topics>
</topics>
<signatures>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11312">Michael Weir</mp>
		<date>2005-04-04</date>
		<type>Proposed</type>
		<constituency>Angus</constituency>
		<party>Scottish National Party</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10142">Ann Cryer</mp>
		<date>2005-04-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Keighley</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10033">Roy Beggs</mp>
		<date>2005-04-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>East Antrim</constituency>
		<party>UUP</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10057">Peter Bottomley</mp>
		<date>2005-04-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Worthing West</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10616">Rudi Vis</mp>
		<date>2005-04-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Finchley &amp; Golders Green</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11189">Angus Robertson</mp>
		<date>2005-04-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Moray</constituency>
		<party>Scottish National Party</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10383">John McDonnell</mp>
		<date>2005-04-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hayes &amp; Harlington</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10467">Sandra Osborne</mp>
		<date>2005-04-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ayr</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10188">Jeff Ennis</mp>
		<date>2005-04-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Barnsley East &amp; Mexborough</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10934">David Hamilton</mp>
		<date>2005-04-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Midlothian</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10258">Mike Hancock</mp>
		<date>2005-04-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Portsmouth South</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10675">Simon Thomas</mp>
		<date>2005-04-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ceredigion</constituency>
		<party>Plaid Cymru</party>
	</signature>
</signatures>
</edm>