<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><edm>
<id>43681</id>
<session>2010-12</session>
<number>2585</number>
<title>Future Of The Wedgwood Museum</title>
<proposer id="24850">Tristram Hunt</proposer>
<date>2012-01-11</date>
<text>That this House notes with grave concern the decision of the High Court on 19 December 2011 to allow the contents of the UNESCO-listed Wedgwood Museum to be sold to service a pension deficit; believes the Wedgwood Museum houses a collection of global significance which tells an essential part of the story of Britain from the industrial revolution to today; further notes its particularly important place within the heritage of Staffordshire and the Potteries; regards the legislation governing the Pension Protection Fund to be in need of urgent amendment if it leads to the unintended consequence of placing in jeopardy such a national museum collection; and urges Government Ministers to take every possible action to help ensure that this world-class pottery and fine art collection remains on open display for the people of Britain as part of our national heritage.</text>
<topics>
	<topic>Cultural heritage</topic>
</topics>
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		<mp id="24850">Tristram Hunt</mp>
		<date>2012-01-11</date>
		<type>Proposed</type>
		<constituency>Stoke-on-Trent Central</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="10619">Joan Walley</mp>
		<date>2012-01-11</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Stoke-on-Trent North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<date>2012-01-11</date>
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		<party>Labour</party>
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		<date>2012-01-11</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Stafford</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
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		<mp id="10095">William Cash</mp>
		<date>2012-01-11</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Stone</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
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		<mp id="13852">Ian Paisley Jnr</mp>
		<date>2012-01-11</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
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		<party>DUP</party>
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		<date>2012-01-11</date>
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		<date>2012-01-11</date>
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		<date>2012-01-11</date>
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		<date>2012-01-11</date>
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		<date>2012-01-11</date>
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		<constituency>Glasgow Central</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="24852">Valerie Vaz</mp>
		<date>2012-01-11</date>
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		<date>2012-01-11</date>
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		<date>2012-01-11</date>
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		<date>2012-01-11</date>
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		<date>2012-01-11</date>
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		<party>Labour</party>
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		<date>2012-01-11</date>
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		<date>2012-01-11</date>
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		<mp id="10678">David Lammy</mp>
		<date>2012-01-11</date>
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		<date>2012-01-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
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		<party>Conservative</party>
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		<mp id="10679">William McCrea</mp>
		<date>2012-01-11</date>
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		<party>DUP</party>
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		<mp id="10222">Andrew George</mp>
		<date>2012-01-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>St Ives</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
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		<mp id="24935">Steve Rotheram</mp>
		<date>2012-01-12</date>
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		<date>2012-01-12</date>
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		<constituency>Bristol West</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
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		<mp id="10029">Hugh Bayley</mp>
		<date>2012-01-12</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>York Central</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<date>2012-01-12</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North Wiltshire</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
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		<date>2012-01-12</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Islington North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="10428">Alan Meale</mp>
		<date>2012-01-12</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Mansfield</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<date>2012-01-12</date>
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		<constituency>Luton North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="24927">Mary Glindon</mp>
		<date>2012-01-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North Tyneside</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="24857">Fiona Bruce</mp>
		<date>2012-01-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Congleton</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
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		<mp id="13934">Virendra Sharma</mp>
		<date>2012-01-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ealing, Southall</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="10171">Frank Dobson</mp>
		<date>2012-01-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Holborn and St Pancras</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="10292">George Howarth</mp>
		<date>2012-01-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Knowsley</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="10282">Kate Hoey</mp>
		<date>2012-01-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Vauxhall</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<date>2012-01-17</date>
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		<party>Conservative</party>
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		<mp id="24862">Robin Walker</mp>
		<date>2012-01-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Worcester</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
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		<mp id="11427">David Anderson</mp>
		<date>2012-01-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Blaydon</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="10258">Mike Hancock</mp>
		<date>2012-01-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Portsmouth South</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
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		<mp id="10128">Michael Connarty</mp>
		<date>2012-01-17</date>
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		<constituency>Linlithgow and East Falkirk</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="10096">Martin Caton</mp>
		<date>2012-01-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Gower</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<date>2012-01-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Manchester Central</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="11199">Andrew Rosindell</mp>
		<date>2012-01-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Romford</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
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		<mp id="10454">Paul Murphy</mp>
		<date>2012-01-18</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Torfaen</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="11148">Albert Owen</mp>
		<date>2012-01-18</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ynys M</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="10900">Hywel Francis</mp>
		<date>2012-01-18</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Aberavon</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="24771">Therese Coffey</mp>
		<date>2012-01-19</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Suffolk Coastal</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
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		<mp id="10203">Paul Flynn</mp>
		<date>2012-01-19</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Newport West</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="10170">Jim Dobbin</mp>
		<date>2012-01-19</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Heywood and Middleton</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<date>2012-01-19</date>
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		<constituency>North East Fife</constituency>
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		<mp id="11707">John Leech</mp>
		<date>2012-01-20</date>
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		<constituency>Manchester, Withington</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
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		<date>2012-01-23</date>
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		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="10415">Gordon Marsden</mp>
		<date>2012-01-24</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Blackpool South</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<date>2012-01-30</date>
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		<constituency>West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
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		<mp id="11420">John Hemming</mp>
		<date>2012-01-31</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Birmingham, Yardley</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
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		<mp id="10208">Don Foster</mp>
		<date>2012-02-20</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bath</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
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		<mp id="24953">Heidi Alexander</mp>
		<date>2012-02-20</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Lewisham East</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="24892">Julian Huppert</mp>
		<date>2012-02-20</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Cambridge</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
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