Trade Justice And Economic Partnership Agreements With Africa

EDM number 333 in 2004-05, proposed by John Battle on 07/12/2004.

That this House welcomes the United Kingdom Government's commitment to tackling African poverty in 2005; notes that changes in trade rules to ensure trade justice are vital to achieving poverty reduction in developing countries, particularly in Africa; notes with concern that current proposals by the European Commission for free trade areas with Africa through economic partnership agreements could lead to the liberalisation of 90 per cent. of African trade over 12 years, including agricultural products; further notes with concern that the European Commission is refusing to talk about its own Common Agricultural Policy in these talks; further notes that economic partnership agreements may undermine Africa's own regional trade integration; further notes that Europe is including issues in these talks that have been rejected by those African countries at the World Trade Organisation; and calls on the United Kingdom Government to lead the way for changes in the Commission's negotiating mandate to take account of these concerns and take an important step towards trade justice by fulfilling its own commitments to provide alternative forms of market access into the EU to those African countries which do not want to sign up to economic partnership agreements.

This motion has been signed by a total of 182 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
John Battle	07/12/2004	Leeds West	Labour	Proposed
Tony Baldry	07/12/2004	Banbury	Conservative	Seconded
John Barrett	07/12/2004	Edinburgh West	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Tony Colman	07/12/2004	Putney	Labour	Seconded
Bob Spink	07/12/2004	Castle Point	Conservative	Seconded
Bob Russell	07/12/2004	Colchester	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Andrew George	08/12/2004	St Ives	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Michael Weir	08/12/2004	Angus	Scottish National Party	Signed
Harry Barnes	08/12/2004	North East Derbyshire	Labour	Signed
Mike Hancock	08/12/2004	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Hywel Francis	08/12/2004	Aberavon	Labour	Signed
Jeff Ennis	08/12/2004	Barnsley East & Mexborough	Labour	Signed
Andrew Dismore	08/12/2004	Hendon	Labour	Signed
Ann Cryer	08/12/2004	Keighley	Labour	Signed
Martin Caton	08/12/2004	Gower	Labour	Signed
Annette Brooke	08/12/2004	Mid Dorset & North Poole	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Paul Keetch	08/12/2004	Hereford	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Stephen Hepburn	08/12/2004	Jarrow	Labour	Signed
Martin Smyth	08/12/2004	Belfast South	UUP	Signed
Andy Reed	08/12/2004	Loughborough	Labour Co-operative	Signed
David Drew	09/12/2004	Stroud	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Jim Dobbin	09/12/2004	Heywood & Middleton	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Wayne David	09/12/2004	Caerphilly	Labour	Signed
Jeremy Corbyn	09/12/2004	Islington North	Labour	Signed
Anne Campbell	09/12/2004	Cambridge	Labour	Signed
George Foulkes	09/12/2004	Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Jane Griffiths	09/12/2004	Reading East	Labour	Signed
Win Griffiths	09/12/2004	Bridgend	Labour	Signed
David Taylor	09/12/2004	North West Leicestershire	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Paul Tyler	09/12/2004	North Cornwall	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Dave Watts	09/12/2004	St Helens North	Labour	Signed
Richard Younger-Ross	09/12/2004	Teignbridge	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Richard Burden	09/12/2004	Birmingham, Northfield	Labour	Signed
Kevin McNamara	09/12/2004	Kingston upon Hull North	Labour	Signed
Greg Pope	09/12/2004	Hyndburn	Labour	Signed
Ernie Ross	09/12/2004	Dundee West	Labour	Signed
Lady Hermon	09/12/2004	North Down	UUP	Signed
George Howarth	09/12/2004	Knowsley North & Sefton East	Labour	Signed
Lindsay Hoyle	09/12/2004	Chorley	Labour	Signed
Kevin Hughes	09/12/2004	Doncaster North	Labour	Signed
Helen Jones	09/12/2004	Warrington North	Labour	Signed
David Lepper	09/12/2004	Brighton, Pavilion	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Alice Mahon	09/12/2004	Halifax	Labour	Signed
Rob Marris	09/12/2004	Wolverhampton South West	Labour	Signed
John McFall	09/12/2004	Dumbarton	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Ann McKechin	09/12/2004	Glasgow, Maryhill	Labour	Signed
Janet Dean	13/12/2004	Burton	Labour	Signed
Julia Drown	13/12/2004	South Swindon	Labour	Signed
Annabelle Ewing	13/12/2004	Perth	Scottish National Party	Signed
Simon Thomas	13/12/2004	Ceredigion	Plaid Cymru	Signed
Rudi Vis	13/12/2004	Finchley & Golders Green	Labour	Signed
Betty Williams	13/12/2004	Conwy	Labour	Signed
Valerie Davey	13/12/2004	Bristol West	Labour	Signed
Tom Cox	13/12/2004	Tooting	Labour	Signed
John McDonnell	13/12/2004	Hayes & Harlington	Labour	Signed
Peter Pike	13/12/2004	Burnley	Labour	Signed
Alan Simpson	13/12/2004	Nottingham South	Labour	Signed
Marsha Singh	13/12/2004	Bradford West	Labour	Signed
Nick Harvey	13/12/2004	North Devon	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Kelvin Hopkins	13/12/2004	Luton North	Labour	Signed
Simon Hughes	13/12/2004	North Southwark & Bermondsey	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Steve Webb	14/12/2004	Northavon	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Desmond Turner	14/12/2004	Brighton, Kemptown	Labour	Signed
Jenny Tonge	14/12/2004	Richmond Park	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Roy Beggs	14/12/2004	East Antrim	UUP	Signed
Neil Gerrard	14/12/2004	Walthamstow	Labour	Signed
Harry Cohen	14/12/2004	Leyton & Wanstead	Labour	Signed
Chris McCafferty	14/12/2004	Calder Valley	Labour	Signed
Mark Lazarowicz	14/12/2004	Edinburgh North & Leith	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Lynne Jones	14/12/2004	Birmingham, Selly Oak	Labour	Signed
David Hamilton	15/12/2004	Midlothian	Labour	Signed
Michael Clapham	15/12/2004	Barnsley West & Penistone	Labour	Signed
Keith Bradley	15/12/2004	Manchester, Withington	Labour	Signed
Terry Lewis	15/12/2004	Worsley	Labour	Signed
Nigel Jones	15/12/2004	Cheltenham	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Stephen Pound	16/12/2004	Ealing North	Labour	Signed
Edward O'Hara	16/12/2004	Knowsley South	Labour	Signed
Ross Cranston	16/12/2004	Dudley North	Labour	Signed
Paul Stinchcombe	20/12/2004	Wellingborough	Labour	Signed
Helen Clark	20/12/2004	Peterborough	Labour	Signed
Bill Olner	20/12/2004	Nuneaton	Labour	Signed
Paul Marsden	20/12/2004	Shrewsbury & Atcham	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Llew Smith	20/12/2004	Blaenau Gwent	Labour	Signed
Syd Rapson	20/12/2004	Portsmouth North	Labour	Signed
Joyce Quin	20/12/2004	Gateshead East & Washington West	Labour	Signed
Tony Wright	21/12/2004	Cannock Chase	Labour	Signed
Tony Worthington	21/12/2004	Clydebank & Milngavie	Labour	Signed
Teddy Taylor	21/12/2004	Rochford & Southend East	Conservative	Signed
David Borrow	21/12/2004	South Ribble	Labour	Signed
Mike Gapes	21/12/2004	Ilford South	Labour Co-operative	Signed
George Galloway	21/12/2004	Glasgow, Kelvin	Independent	Signed
Tony Clarke	21/12/2004	Northampton South	Labour	Signed
Helen Jackson	21/12/2004	Sheffield, Hillsborough	Labour	Signed
Mohammad Sarwar	21/12/2004	Glasgow, Govan	Labour	Signed
Linda Perham	21/12/2004	Ilford North	Labour	Signed
Michael Connarty	10/01/2005	Falkirk East	Labour	Signed
David Chidgey	10/01/2005	Eastleigh	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Menzies Campbell	10/01/2005	Fife North East	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Colin Breed	10/01/2005	South East Cornwall	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Jim Cunningham	10/01/2005	Coventry South	Labour	Signed
Denzil Davies	10/01/2005	Llanelli	Labour	Signed
Don Foster	10/01/2005	Bath	Liberal Democrat	Signed
David Amess	10/01/2005	Southend West	Conservative	Signed
Robert Walter	10/01/2005	North Dorset	Conservative	Signed
Mike Wood	10/01/2005	Batley & Spen	Labour	Signed
Martin O'Neill	10/01/2005	Ochil	Labour	Signed
Michael Moore	10/01/2005	Tweeddale, Ettrick & Lauderdale	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Kerry Pollard	10/01/2005	St Albans	Labour	Signed
Chris Ruane	10/01/2005	Vale of Clwyd	Labour	Signed
Christine Russell	10/01/2005	Chester, City of	Labour	Signed
Debra Shipley	10/01/2005	Stourbridge	Labour	Signed
Mark Hendrick	10/01/2005	Preston	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Paul Holmes	10/01/2005	Chesterfield	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Andrew Hunter	10/01/2005	Basingstoke	DUP	Signed
Elfyn Llwyd	10/01/2005	Meirionnydd Nant Conwy	Plaid Cymru	Signed
John McWilliam	10/01/2005	Blaydon	Labour	Signed
Alan Meale	10/01/2005	Mansfield	Labour	Signed
John Taylor	11/01/2005	Solihull	Conservative	Signed
Roger Berry	11/01/2005	Kingswood	Labour	Signed
Tom Brake	11/01/2005	Carshalton & Wallington	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Austin Mitchell	11/01/2005	Great Grimsby	Labour	Signed
Andy King	11/01/2005	Rugby & Kenilworth	Labour	Signed
Dennis Turner	12/01/2005	Wolverhampton South East	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Paul Truswell	12/01/2005	Pudsey	Labour	Signed
Barbara Follett	12/01/2005	Stevenage	Labour	Signed
Jim Dowd	12/01/2005	Lewisham West	Labour	Signed
David Crausby	12/01/2005	Bolton North East	Labour	Signed
David Marshall	12/01/2005	Glasgow, Shettleston	Labour	Signed
Joan Ruddock	12/01/2005	Lewisham, Deptford	Labour	Signed
David Heyes	13/01/2005	Ashton-under-Lyne	Labour	Signed
Brian Jenkins	13/01/2005	Tamworth	Labour	Signed
Richard Taylor	17/01/2005	Wyre Forest	Independent	Signed
Sandra Gidley	17/01/2005	Romsey	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Derek Foster	17/01/2005	Bishop Auckland	Labour	Signed
Edward Davey	17/01/2005	Kingston & Surbiton	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Iain Coleman	17/01/2005	Hammersmith & Fulham	Labour	Signed
Tony Lloyd	17/01/2005	Manchester Central	Labour	Signed
Bill Etherington	18/01/2005	Sunderland North	Labour	Signed
Vera Baird	18/01/2005	Redcar	Labour	Signed
Brian White	18/01/2005	North East Milton Keynes	Labour	Signed
Chris Mole	19/01/2005	Ipswich	Labour	Signed
Angus Robertson	19/01/2005	Moray	Scottish National Party	Signed
Jeffrey M Donaldson	20/01/2005	Lagan Valley	DUP	Signed
Paul Flynn	20/01/2005	Newport West	Labour	Signed
John Randall	24/01/2005	Uxbridge	Conservative	Signed
Karen Buck	24/01/2005			Signed
George Mudie	27/01/2005	Leeds East	Labour	Signed
Phil Sawford	27/01/2005	Kettering	Labour	Signed
Geoffrey Robinson	27/01/2005	Coventry North West	Labour	Signed
Brian Sedgemore	01/02/2005	Hackney South & Shoreditch	Labour	Signed
Phil Willis	01/02/2005	Harrogate & Knaresborough	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Mann	04/02/2005	Bassetlaw	Labour	Signed
Tom Clarke	08/02/2005	Coatbridge & Chryston	Labour	Signed
Russell Brown	09/02/2005	Dumfries	Labour	Signed
Doug Naysmith	09/02/2005	Bristol North West	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Julie Morgan	10/02/2005	Cardiff North	Labour	Signed
Joe Benton	10/02/2005	Bootle	Labour	Signed
Glenda Jackson	21/02/2005	Hampstead & Highgate	Labour	Signed
Brian Iddon	21/02/2005	Bolton South East	Labour	Signed
George Stevenson	22/02/2005	Stoke-on-Trent South	Labour	Signed
Gerald Kaufman	23/02/2005	Manchester, Gorton	Labour	Signed
Colin Challen	24/02/2005	Morley & Rothwell	Labour	Signed
Jim Cousins	24/02/2005	Newcastle upon Tyne Central	Labour	Signed
Roger Williams	25/02/2005	Brecon & Radnorshire	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Patsy Calton	25/02/2005	Cheadle	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Tony McWalter	25/02/2005	Hemel Hempstead	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Pete Wishart	07/03/2005	North Tayside	Scottish National Party	Signed
Mark Fisher	08/03/2005	Stoke-on-Trent Central	Labour	Signed
Hywel Williams	14/03/2005	Caernarfon	Plaid Cymru	Signed
John Pugh	14/03/2005	Southport	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Adam Price	14/03/2005	Carmarthen East & Dinefwr	Plaid Cymru	Signed
Michael Jabez Foster	15/03/2005	Hastings & Rye	Labour	Signed
Diane Abbott	16/03/2005	Hackney North & Stoke Newington	Labour	Signed
Hugh Bayley	16/03/2005	York, City of	Labour	Signed
Matthew Taylor	16/03/2005	Truro & St Austell	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Lembit	17/03/2005	Montgomeryshire	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Sarah Teather	23/03/2005	Brent East	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Tim Loughton	24/03/2005	East Worthing & Shoreham	Conservative	Signed
Alistair Carmichael	24/03/2005	Orkney & Shetland	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Ian Davidson	24/03/2005	Glasgow, Pollok	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Patrick Hall	04/04/2005	Bedford	Labour	Signed
Gavin Strang	04/04/2005	Edinburgh East & Musselburgh	Labour	Signed

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