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170th Anniversary Of The Husker Pit Disaster

EDM number 1827 in 2007-08, proposed by Michael Clapham on 17/06/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Coal, Industrial health and safety and Industry.

That this House welcomes the Awards for All Grant and all other contributions that have made possible the staging of a play by local children at All Saints Church in Silkstone village to commemorate the 170th anniversary of the Husker Colliery disaster which happened on 4th July 1838 when 26 children were drowned, causing Victorian society to examine its laissez-faire attitude, leading to a national enquiry by the Children's Employment Commission of 1840 and to the first Mines Act of 1842 which prohibited females and boys under 10 years of age from working underground.

This motion has been signed by a total of 82 MPs, 3 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Michael Clapham17/06/2008Barnsley West & PenistoneLabourProposed
Dennis Skinner17/06/2008BolsoverLabourSeconded
David Hamilton17/06/2008MidlothianLabourSeconded
Bill Etherington17/06/2008Sunderland NorthLabourSeconded
Denis Murphy17/06/2008WansbeckLabourSeconded
John Cummings17/06/2008EasingtonLabourSeconded
David Borrow17/06/2008South RibbleLabourSigned
Joe Benton17/06/2008BootleLabourSigned
Peter Hain17/06/2008NeathLabourSigned
John Grogan17/06/2008SelbyLabourSigned
Ian Gibson17/06/2008Norwich NorthLabourSigned
Bruce George17/06/2008Walsall SouthLabourSigned
Hywel Francis17/06/2008AberavonLabourSigned
Desmond Turner17/06/2008Brighton, KemptownLabourSigned
Rudi Vis17/06/2008Finchley & Golders GreenLabourSigned
David Winnick17/06/2008Walsall NorthLabourSigned
Gordon Banks17/06/2008Ochil & Perthshire SouthLabourSigned
Nia Griffith17/06/2008LlanelliLabourSigned
Angela Smith17/06/2008Sheffield, HillsboroughLabourSigned
Linda Riordan17/06/2008HalifaxLabourSigned
Jim Devine17/06/2008LivingstonLabourSigned
Dai Davies17/06/2008Blaenau GwentIndependentSigned
Virendra Sharma17/06/2008Ealing, SouthallLabourSigned
Frank Field17/06/2008BirkenheadLabourSigned
Paul Farrelly17/06/2008Newcastle-under-LymeLabourSigned
Jeff Ennis17/06/2008Barnsley East & MexboroughLabourSigned
Ken Purchase17/06/2008Wolverhampton North EastLabourSigned
Terry Rooney17/06/2008Bradford NorthLabourSigned
Jim Sheridan17/06/2008Paisley & Renfrewshire NorthLabourSigned
Kate Hoey17/06/2008VauxhallLabourSigned
Jimmy Hood17/06/2008Lanark & Hamilton EastLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins17/06/2008Luton NorthLabourSigned
Brian Iddon17/06/2008Bolton South EastLabourSigned
Eric Illsley17/06/2008Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Bob Laxton17/06/2008Derby NorthLabourSigned
David Lepper17/06/2008Brighton, PavilionLabourSigned
Ian Davidson17/06/2008Glasgow South WestLabourSigned
Ann Cryer17/06/2008KeighleyLabourSigned
Ronnie Campbell17/06/2008Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Colin Burgon17/06/2008ElmetLabourSigned
Bill Olner17/06/2008NuneatonLabourSigned
Andrew MacKinlay17/06/2008ThurrockLabourSigned
Tom Levitt17/06/2008High PeakLabourSigned
Stephen Williams18/06/2008Bristol WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Robert Wareing18/06/2008Liverpool, West DerbyIndependentSigned
David Taylor18/06/2008North West LeicestershireLabourSigned
Graham Stringer18/06/2008Manchester, BlackleyLabourSigned
Nigel Evans18/06/2008Ribble ValleyConservativeSigned
David Drew18/06/2008StroudLabourSigned
Andrew Dismore18/06/2008HendonLabourSigned
Chris McCafferty18/06/2008Calder ValleyLabourSigned
Lynne Jones18/06/2008Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins18/06/2008TamworthLabourSigned
Lindsay Hoyle18/06/2008ChorleyLabourSigned
Keith Vaz19/06/2008Leicester EastLabourSigned
Peter Bottomley19/06/2008Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Clive Efford19/06/2008ElthamLabourSigned
Janet Dean19/06/2008BurtonLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn19/06/2008Islington NorthLabourSigned
Vincent Cable19/06/2008TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Richard Burden19/06/2008Birmingham, NorthfieldLabourSigned
John McDonnell23/06/2008Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
Jim Dobbin23/06/2008Heywood & MiddletonLabourSigned
Willie Rennie24/06/2008Dunfermline & Fife WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Betty Williams24/06/2008ConwyLabourSigned
Janet Anderson24/06/2008Rossendale & DarwenLabourSigned
Gordon Prentice24/06/2008PendleLabourSigned
Alasdair McDonnell25/06/2008Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Doug Naysmith25/06/2008Bristol North WestLabourSigned
Martin Caton25/06/2008GowerLabourSigned
Mike Hancock25/06/2008Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
John Battle25/06/2008Leeds WestLabourSigned
David Anderson25/06/2008BlaydonLabourSigned
Greg Pope26/06/2008HyndburnLabourSigned
Michael Jabez Foster30/06/2008Hastings & RyeLabourSigned
Alan Simpson02/07/2008Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
David Crausby02/07/2008Bolton North EastLabourSigned
Paul Truswell02/07/2008PudseyLabourSigned
John Leech09/07/2008Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Kevan JonesUnknownWithdrawn
Ann McKechinUnknownWithdrawn
Jon TrickettUnknownWithdrawn

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