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Proposed Closure Of The Nuclear Structure Facility, Daresbury

EDM number 368 in 1990-91, proposed by Michael Spicer on 29/01/1991.

That this House notes with deep concern reports of the possible closure of Britain's experimental Nuclear Structure Facility at Daresbury, Warrington, with the loss of 150 jobs, because of a funding crisis at the Science and Engineering Research Council; agrees with the many leading universities who have protested against this move that the closure of the Nuclear Structure Facility would be a serious blow to British science, leaving much vital research work unfinished, terminating important collaborative research projects, damaging the reputation of British science abroad and leading to the premature termination of work on one of the world's most successful particle accelerators; supports the view of the former Prime Minister, the Right honourable Member for Finchley, who wrote last July that the Facility `. .. is at the frontiers of research in several fundamental areas' through `exciting projects' like the Anglo-French Eurogam programme, which is now threatened; calls upon the Science and Engineering Research Council not to take any irrevocable action until all available scientific and financial options have been fully examined; and asks the Secretary of State for Education and Science to intervene to save the Facility by providing extra funding as required.

This motion has been signed by a total of 53 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Michael Spicer29/01/1991Worcestershire SouthProposed
Doug Hoyle29/01/1991Warrington NorthSigned
Matthew Taylor29/01/1991TruroSigned
Gerry Bermingham29/01/1991St Helens SouthSigned
John Evans29/01/1991St Helens NorthSigned
Jeremy Bray29/01/1991Motherwell SouthSigned
Gordon Oakes29/01/1991HaltonSigned
Tam Dalyell29/01/1991LinlithgowSigned
Alan Meale30/01/1991MansfieldSigned
Gerry Steinberg30/01/1991Durham, City ofSigned
Keith Hampson30/01/1991Leeds North WestSigned
Derek Fatchett30/01/1991Leeds CentralSigned
Harry Ewing30/01/1991Falkirk EastSigned
Jimmy Dunnachie30/01/1991Glasgow, PollokSigned
Terry Davis30/01/1991Birmingham, Hodge HillSigned
Patrick Cormack30/01/1991South StaffordshireSigned
Alf Morris30/01/1991Manchester WythenshaweSigned
John McAllion30/01/1991Dundee EastSigned
Geoffrey Lofthouse30/01/1991Pontefract & CastlefordSigned
Tony Lloyd30/01/1991StretfordSigned
Kim Howells30/01/1991PontypriddSigned
Norman Hogg30/01/1991Cumbernauld & KilsythSigned
Andrew Smith30/01/1991Oxford EastSigned
John Reid30/01/1991Motherwell NorthSigned
Peter Pike30/01/1991BurnleySigned
Gerard Vaughan31/01/1991Reading EastSigned
Dennis Turner31/01/1991Wolverhampton South EastSigned
Terry Dicks31/01/1991Hayes & HarlingtonSigned
Peter Hardy04/02/1991WentworthSigned
Simon Coombs04/02/1991SwindonSigned
Jerry Hayes05/02/1991HarlowSigned
Sylvia Heal05/02/1991Staffordshire MidSigned
Tom Cox05/02/1991TootingSigned
John Cummings05/02/1991EasingtonSigned
Alistair Darling05/02/1991Edinburgh CentralSigned
Stephen Day05/02/1991CheadleSigned
David Sumberg05/02/1991Bury SouthSigned
Robert Wareing05/02/1991Liverpool, West DerbySigned
Edward O'Hara06/02/1991Knowsley SouthSigned
Patrick Thompson06/02/1991Norwich NorthSigned
Joe Benton06/02/1991BootleSigned
Bob Dunn06/02/1991DartfordSigned
Richard Livsey06/02/1991Brecon and RadnorSigned
Robert Parry06/02/1991Liverpool, RiversideSigned
Adam Ingram07/02/1991East KilbrideSigned
David Alton07/02/1991Liverpool Mossley HillSigned
Ann Winterton07/02/1991CongletonSigned
Peter Bottomley08/02/1991ElthamSigned
John Garrett11/02/1991Norwich SouthSigned
Peter Griffiths12/02/1991Portsmouth NorthSigned
Alex Carlile28/02/1991MontgomerySigned
Barry Porter05/03/1991Wirral SouthSigned
George Howarth07/03/1991Knowsley NorthSigned

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