47749
2014-15
901
Alan Turing Square
John Leech
2015-03-20
That this House welcomes the campaign to rename Leningrad Square in Wythenshawe after Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) computer and Enigma code breaker, Alan Turing; notes that Manchester is currently twinned with St Petersburg, formerly Leningrad, the birthplace of Russia's appalling anti-gay laws which ban homosexual propaganda; further notes that Baby, the first modern computer, was born in Manchester thanks to Alan Turing's work at the University of Manchester; regrets that Turing was arrested by City of Manchester police in 1952 for homosexuality and was punished with chemical castration; further welcomes the posthumous Royal Pardon in 2013 and the campaign to achieve it; believes that Manchester's city leaders should stop honouring a city and country where LGBTQ people are so appallingly discriminated against; further regrets that too many LGBTQ people still suffer discrimination in the UK and abroad; recognises that renaming a landmark square after a gay Manchester hero would show solidarity to everyone fighting for equality in Manchester, Russia and around the world and that it would also help the fight to pardon the thousands of other gay men who were convicted of offences relating to their sexuality; and calls on Manchester City Council to back the campaign to rename the square in time for the 31 March anniversary of Alan Turing's conviction.
Cultural heritage
Equality
John Leech
2015-03-20
Proposed
Manchester, Withington
Liberal Democrat
John McDonnell
2015-03-20
Seconded
Hayes and Harlington
Labour
Alan Meale
2015-03-20
Seconded
Mansfield
Labour
Kelvin Hopkins
2015-03-23
Seconded
Luton North
Labour
Paul Flynn
2015-03-23
Seconded
Newport West
Labour
Roger Godsiff
2015-03-23
Seconded
Birmingham, Hall Green
Labour
Nick Harvey
2015-03-24
Signed
North Devon
Liberal Democrat
Mary Glindon
2015-03-24
Signed
North Tyneside
Labour
Liz McInnes
2015-03-24
Signed
Heywood and Middleton
Labour
Andrew George
2015-03-24
Signed
St Ives
Liberal Democrat
Mark Hunter
2015-03-24
Signed
Cheadle
Liberal Democrat
Martin Caton
2015-03-24
Signed
Gower
Labour
David Ward
2015-03-25
Signed
Bradford East
Liberal Democrat
Ronnie Campbell
2015-03-25
Signed
Blyth Valley
Labour
Caroline Lucas
2015-03-25
Signed
Brighton, Pavilion
Green
Sandra Osborne
2015-03-25
Signed
Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
Labour
Hugh Bayley
2015-03-25
Signed
York Central
Labour