40676 2009-10 1048 Bob Russell 2010-03-09 That this House congratulates the Conservation Foundation on launching the Great British Elm Experiment which is an inspirational project aimed at restoring elm trees to the British landscape which from the late 1960s onwards witnessed the loss of an estimated 25 million elm trees destroyed by Dutch elm disease, leaving little more than 200 survivors according to research undertaken by the Natural History Museum; welcomes the involvement of 250 schools across Britain who have planted cuttings taken from some of the few mature trees that survived, from Hampshire, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire; further welcomes the announcement by the Conservation Foundation that in the coming years it intends to provide thousands more saplings which it will propagate; notes that this process will take decades but hopes that future generations will be able to enjoy the British landscape immortalised by the paintings of John Constable and the evocative lines of John Betjeman; and calls on the Government, across departments, to encourage the planting of elm trees, of which there are 40 different varieties, on land which it owns and also for other public bodies and land-owners to do the same. Nature conservation Bob Russell 2010-03-09 Proposed Colchester Liberal Democrat Peter Bottomley 2010-03-09 Seconded Worthing West Conservative Andrew George 2010-03-09 Seconded St Ives Liberal Democrat Keith Vaz 2010-03-10 Seconded Leicester East Labour Andrew Dismore 2010-03-10 Seconded Hendon Labour David Drew 2010-03-10 Seconded Stroud Labour Stephen Williams 2010-03-10 Signed Bristol West Liberal Democrat John Leech 2010-03-10 Signed Manchester, Withington Liberal Democrat Graham Stringer 2010-03-10 Signed Manchester, Blackley Labour Jeremy Corbyn 2010-03-10 Signed Islington North Labour Michael Connarty 2010-03-10 Signed Linlithgow & Falkirk East Labour John McDonnell 2010-03-10 Signed Hayes & Harlington Labour William McCrea 2010-03-10 Signed South Antrim DUP Robert Key 2010-03-10 Signed Salisbury Conservative David Simpson 2010-03-10 Signed Upper Bann DUP Ann Cryer 2010-03-11 Signed Keighley Labour Dai Davies 2010-03-11 Signed Blaenau Gwent Independent Kelvin Hopkins 2010-03-12 Signed Luton North Labour Betty Williams 2010-03-15 Signed Conwy Labour Mike Hancock 2010-03-15 Signed Portsmouth South Liberal Democrat Ian Davidson 2010-03-15 Signed Glasgow South West Labour Lynne Jones 2010-03-15 Signed Birmingham, Selly Oak Labour Nick Harvey 2010-03-15 Signed North Devon Liberal Democrat Alan Meale 2010-03-16 Signed Mansfield Labour Tom Brake 2010-03-16 Signed Carshalton & Wallington Liberal Democrat James Gray 2010-03-16 Signed North Wiltshire Conservative Tony Baldry 2010-03-16 Signed Banbury Conservative Rudi Vis 2010-03-16 Signed Finchley & Golders Green Labour Bill Etherington 2010-03-17 Signed Sunderland North Labour Stephen Hepburn 2010-03-17 Signed Jarrow Labour Malcolm Moss 2010-03-18 Signed North East Cambridgeshire Conservative Edward Davey 2010-03-18 Signed Kingston & Surbiton Liberal Democrat Paul Flynn 2010-03-22 Signed Newport West Labour Peter Ainsworth 2010-03-22 Signed East Surrey Conservative Jennifer Willott 2010-03-22 Signed Cardiff Central Liberal Democrat Alan Simpson 2010-03-24 Signed Nottingham South Labour Brian Jenkins 2010-03-24 Signed Tamworth Labour Andrew Pelling 2010-04-07 Signed Croydon Central Independent