Age Of Armed Forces Recruitment

EDM number 595 in 2005-06, proposed by David Drew on 14/07/2005.

That this House notes that those currently entering the army at the age of 16 years are committed for four years beyond their eighteenth birthday; welcomes the recommendation of the Defence Select Committee that the Ministry of Defence consider raising the age of recruitment into the armed forces to 18 years; further welcomes the finding of the Joint Committee on Human Rights that the UK Government's declaration on ratifying the UN Optional Protocol to the Rights of the Child is overly broad, thereby undermining the UK's commitment not to deploy under-18s in conflict zones; and urges the Government to withdraw its declaration and to raise the age at which young recruits can be enlisted into the armed forces to 18 years and thereby set an example of good practice internationally.

This motion has been signed by a total of 70 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
David Drew	14/07/2005	Stroud	Labour	Proposed
Peter Bottomley	14/07/2005	Worthing West	Conservative	Seconded
Helen Goodman	14/07/2005	Bishop Auckland	Labour	Seconded
Neil Gerrard	14/07/2005	Walthamstow	Labour	Seconded
Mike Hancock	19/07/2005	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Jeff Ennis	19/07/2005	Barnsley East & Mexborough	Labour	Seconded
Ann Cryer	19/07/2005	Keighley	Labour	Signed
Jeremy Corbyn	20/07/2005	Islington North	Labour	Signed
Michael Clapham	20/07/2005	Barnsley West & Penistone	Labour	Signed
John McDonnell	20/07/2005	Hayes & Harlington	Labour	Signed
Elfyn Llwyd	20/07/2005	Meirionnydd Nant Conwy	Plaid Cymru	Signed
Alan Simpson	21/07/2005	Nottingham South	Labour	Signed
Kelvin Hopkins	21/07/2005	Luton North	Labour	Signed
Brian Jenkins	21/07/2005	Tamworth	Labour	Signed
Phil Willis	21/07/2005	Harrogate & Knaresborough	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Bill Etherington	10/10/2005	Sunderland North	Labour	Signed
Chris McCafferty	14/10/2005	Calder Valley	Labour	Signed
Gavin Strang	18/10/2005	Edinburgh East	Labour	Signed
David Crausby	24/10/2005	Bolton North East	Labour	Signed
John Barrett	24/10/2005	Edinburgh West	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Rudi Vis	01/11/2005	Finchley & Golders Green	Labour	Signed
Nicholas Clegg	15/11/2005	Sheffield, Hallam	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Frank Cook	29/11/2005	Stockton North	Labour	Signed
Katy Clark	29/11/2005	Ayrshire North & Arran	Labour	Signed
Michael Penning	30/11/2005	Hemel Hempstead	Conservative	Signed
Roger Godsiff	30/11/2005	Birmingham, Sparkbrook & Small Heath	Labour	Signed
Martin Caton	30/11/2005	Gower	Labour	Signed
Clare Short	30/11/2005	Birmingham, Ladywood	Labour	Signed
Shahid Malik	01/12/2005	Dewsbury	Labour	Signed
Kerry McCarthy	01/12/2005	Bristol East	Labour	Signed
Janet Dean	02/12/2005	Burton	Labour	Signed
Betty Williams	05/12/2005	Conwy	Labour	Signed
Lorely Burt	07/12/2005	Solihull	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Leech	07/12/2005	Manchester, Withington	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Alasdair McDonnell	08/12/2005	Belfast South	Social Democratic and Labour Party	Signed
Diane Abbott	12/12/2005	Hackney North & Stoke Newington	Labour	Signed
Susan Kramer	13/12/2005	Richmond Park	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Jim Cunningham	15/12/2005	Coventry South	Labour	Signed
Mark Lancaster	11/01/2006	North East Milton Keynes	Conservative	Signed
Danny Alexander	10/03/2006	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch & Strathspey	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Andrew George	20/04/2006	St Ives	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Dawn Butler	09/10/2006	Brent South	Labour	Signed
Robert Walter	09/10/2006	North Dorset	Conservative	Signed
Roger Berry	09/10/2006	Kingswood	Labour	Signed
Joe Benton	09/10/2006	Bootle	Labour	Signed
Mary Creagh	09/10/2006	Wakefield	Labour	Signed
Tim Farron	09/10/2006	Westmorland & Lonsdale	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Martin Horwood	09/10/2006	Cheltenham	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Emily Thornberry	09/10/2006	Islington South & Finsbury	Labour	Signed
Madeleine Moon	09/10/2006	Bridgend	Labour	Signed
Jamie Reed	09/10/2006	Copeland	Labour	Signed
Norman Baker	09/10/2006	Lewes	Liberal Democrat	Signed
George Galloway	09/10/2006	Bethnal Green & Bow	Respect	Signed
Hywel Francis	09/10/2006	Aberavon	Labour	Signed
Gwyn Prosser	09/10/2006	Dover	Labour	Signed
Adrian Sanders	09/10/2006	Torbay	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Marsha Singh	09/10/2006	Bradford West	Labour	Signed
Evan Harris	09/10/2006	Oxford West & Abingdon	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Lynne Jones	09/10/2006	Birmingham, Selly Oak	Labour	Signed
Alan Meale	09/10/2006	Mansfield	Labour	Signed
Mark Oaten	09/10/2006	Winchester	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Annette Brooke	09/10/2006	Mid Dorset & North Poole	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Alistair Carmichael	09/10/2006	Orkney & Shetland	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Michael Jabez Foster	09/10/2006	Hastings & Rye	Labour	Signed
Sarah McCarthy-Fry	10/10/2006	Portsmouth North	Labour	Signed
Joan Walley	10/10/2006	Stoke-on-Trent North	Labour	Signed
Lyn Brown	12/10/2006	West Ham	Labour	Signed
Julie Morgan	16/10/2006	Cardiff North	Labour	Signed
Keith Vaz	31/10/2006	Leicester East	Labour	Signed
Paul Rowen	06/11/2006	Rochdale	Liberal Democrat	Signed

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