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<id>30832</id>
<session>2005-06</session>
<number>2289</number>
<title>The Leader Of The Opposition, The Shadow Chancellor And Their Position On The Habitual Exclusion Of Women</title>
<proposer id="11447">Dawn Butler</proposer>
<date>2006-06-05</date>
<text>That this House notes newspaper reports that the Leader of the Opposition and the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, the right hon. Members for Witney and Tatton, belong to a private members' club that excludes women; further notes the comments of the right hon. Member for Witney to the Equal Opportunities Commission on 13th March 2006, when he said `How can we draw on all the talents of the country when we habitually exclude half the population?'; believes that the right hon. Member for Witney should further clarify his position on whether he supports the habitual exclusion of half the population as is done at White's, the club that he and the right hon. Member for Tatton are reportedly members of; and, if they are members, calls for both right hon. Members to resign their membership and undertake no longer to support institutions that habitually exclude women.</text>
<topics>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="11447">Dawn Butler</mp>
		<date>2006-06-05</date>
		<type>Proposed</type>
		<constituency>Brent South</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11656">Emily Thornberry</mp>
		<date>2006-06-05</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Islington South &amp; Finsbury</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10614">Keith Vaz</mp>
		<date>2006-06-05</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Leicester East</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11845">Lynda Waltho</mp>
		<date>2006-06-05</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Stourbridge</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10367">Tony Lloyd</mp>
		<date>2006-06-05</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Manchester Central</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10330">Ann Keen</mp>
		<date>2006-06-05</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Brentford &amp; Isleworth</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11667">Rosie Cooper</mp>
		<date>2006-06-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>West Lancashire</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11531">Andrew Gwynne</mp>
		<date>2006-06-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Denton &amp; Reddish</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11647">Diana Johnson</mp>
		<date>2006-06-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Kingston upon Hull North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11943">Barbara Keeley</mp>
		<date>2006-06-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Worsley</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11814">Angela Smith</mp>
		<date>2006-06-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Sheffield, Hillsborough</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11921">Lyn Brown</mp>
		<date>2006-06-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>West Ham</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11558">Roberta Blackman-Woods</mp>
		<date>2006-06-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Durham, City of</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11644">Celia Barlow</mp>
		<date>2006-06-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hove</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10564">Phyllis Starkey</mp>
		<date>2006-06-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Milton Keynes South West</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11093">John Mann</mp>
		<date>2006-06-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bassetlaw</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11095">Rob Marris</mp>
		<date>2006-06-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wolverhampton South West</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10645">David Winnick</mp>
		<date>2006-06-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Walsall North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="12005">Gordon Banks</mp>
		<date>2006-06-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ochil &amp; Perthshire South</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10169">Andrew Dismore</mp>
		<date>2006-06-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hendon</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10203">Paul Flynn</mp>
		<date>2006-06-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Newport West</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="12834">Jim Devine</mp>
		<date>2006-06-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Livingston</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11766">Sarah McCarthy-Fry</mp>
		<date>2006-06-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Portsmouth North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10001">Diane Abbott</mp>
		<date>2006-06-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hackney North &amp; Stoke Newington</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10096">Martin Caton</mp>
		<date>2006-06-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Gower</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10378">Chris McCafferty</mp>
		<date>2006-06-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Calder Valley</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10442">Julie Morgan</mp>
		<date>2006-06-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Cardiff North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10166">Janet Dean</mp>
		<date>2006-06-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Burton</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10133">Jeremy Corbyn</mp>
		<date>2006-06-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Islington North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10761">Chris Bryant</mp>
		<date>2006-06-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Rhondda</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10900">Hywel Francis</mp>
		<date>2006-06-12</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Aberavon</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11898">Mary Creagh</mp>
		<date>2006-06-12</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wakefield</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11421">Helen Goodman</mp>
		<date>2006-06-12</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bishop Auckland</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11878">Sadiq Khan</mp>
		<date>2006-06-12</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Tooting</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11974">James McGovern</mp>
		<date>2006-06-13</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Dundee West</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11592">Sharon Hodgson</mp>
		<date>2006-06-13</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Gateshead East &amp; Washington West</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10934">David Hamilton</mp>
		<date>2006-06-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Midlothian</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10640">Betty Williams</mp>
		<date>2006-06-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Conwy</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10410">Judy Mallaber</mp>
		<date>2006-06-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Amber Valley</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10142">Ann Cryer</mp>
		<date>2006-06-20</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Keighley</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11513">Daniel Rogerson</mp>
		<date>2006-06-20</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North Cornwall</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10961">David Heyes</mp>
		<date>2006-06-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ashton-under-Lyne</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10012">Janet Anderson</mp>
		<date>2006-06-22</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Rossendale &amp; Darwen</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10541">Alan Simpson</mp>
		<date>2006-06-27</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Nottingham South</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10055">David Borrow</mp>
		<date>2006-06-27</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>South Ribble</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10305">Eric Illsley</mp>
		<date>2006-06-29</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Barnsley Central</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10383">John McDonnell</mp>
		<date>2006-11-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hayes &amp; Harlington</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
</signatures>
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