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Commonwealth Day On Monday 11th March 1991

EDM number 539 in 1990-91, proposed by Donald Anderson on 27/02/1991.

That this House joins with all other parliaments throughout the Commonwealth in the observance of Commonwealth Day on Monday 11th March and in recognising that the Commonwealth plays an important role in promoting international co-operation and stability in the world; welcomes Members of the Namibian Parliament, which was accepted into the CPA at the recent Commonwealth Conference in Harare; and notes that the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, with 110 active branches in 41 countries, continues to serve the interests of Members by spreading knowledge and understanding of parliamentary democracy throughout the Commonwealth.

This motion has been signed by a total of 44 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Donald Anderson27/02/1991Swansea EastProposed
Peter Hordern27/02/1991HorshamSigned
Gordon Oakes27/02/1991HaltonSigned
Anthony Durant27/02/1991Reading WestSigned
David Alton28/02/1991Liverpool Mossley HillSigned
John Battle28/02/1991Leeds WestSigned
John Cummings28/02/1991EasingtonSigned
Paul Murphy28/02/1991TorfaenSigned
Alun Michael28/02/1991Cardiff South & PenarthSigned
Peter Hardy28/02/1991WentworthSigned
Ivan Lawrence01/03/1991BurtonSigned
Michael Shersby04/03/1991UxbridgeSigned
Nicholas Winterton04/03/1991MacclesfieldSigned
Robert Banks04/03/1991HarrogateSigned
Jacques Arnold04/03/1991GraveshamSigned
Roland Boyes04/03/1991Houghton and WashingtonSigned
Alan Meale04/03/1991MansfieldSigned
David Knox04/03/1991Staffordshire MoorlandsSigned
James Kilfedder04/03/1991North DownSigned
Roy Hughes04/03/1991Newport EastSigned
Robert Hughes04/03/1991Aberdeen NorthSigned
Colin Shepherd04/03/1991HerefordSigned
Tim Rathbone05/03/1991LewesSigned
Roger Gale05/03/1991North ThanetSigned
Patrick Cormack05/03/1991South StaffordshireSigned
Joan Lestor05/03/1991EcclesSigned
Ian McCartney05/03/1991MakerfieldSigned
Robert Wareing06/03/1991Liverpool, West DerbySigned
Ian Grist06/03/1991Cardiff CentralSigned
Win Griffiths06/03/1991BridgendSigned
George Foulkes06/03/1991Carrick, Cumnock and Doon ValleySigned
Andrew Faulds06/03/1991Warley EastSigned
Harry Cohen06/03/1991LeytonSigned
Eric Illsley06/03/1991Barnsley CentralSigned
Martin Smyth06/03/1991Belfast SouthSigned
Russell Johnston07/03/1991Inverness, Nairn and LochaberSigned
Bryan Gould07/03/1991DagenhamSigned
Bowen Wells07/03/1991Hertford & StortfordSigned
Elizabeth Peacock08/03/1991Batley & SpenSigned
Michael Jopling08/03/1991Westmorland & LonsdaleSigned
John Marek08/03/1991WrexhamSigned
Bruce Grocott12/03/1991Wrekin, TheSigned
Tommy Graham14/03/1991Renfrew West and InverclydeSigned
Alex Carlile23/04/1991MontgomerySigned

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