Overstretch In The Army (EDM1353)

Overstretch In The Army

EDM number 1353 in 1992-93, proposed by Nicholas Bonsor on 09/02/1993.

That this House welcomes the Government's recognition of the problem of overstretch in the Army with the decision, announced by the Defence Secretary on 3rd February, to restore two of the 14 United Kingdom infantry battalions to be cut under Options for Change and 3, 000 of the planned manpower cuts of 40,000, but is concerned that these measures will be inadequate to deal with the present scale of overstretch; further endorses the Second Report of the Defence Select Committee (HC 306) entitled Britain's Army for the 90s: Commitments and Resources calling for a halt to all infantry amalgamations; and invites Her Majesty's Government to implement the Report's findings and to honour undertakings given by Ministers at the time of the Options announcement that manpower reductions would be offset by better equipment.

This motion has been signed by a total of 78 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MP	Date	Constituency	Type
Nicholas Bonsor	09/02/1993	Upminster	Proposed
John Home Robertson	09/02/1993	East Lothian	Signed
Neville Trotter	09/02/1993	Tynemouth	Signed
Bruce George	09/02/1993	Walsall South	Signed
Nicholas Fairbairn	09/02/1993	Perth and Kinross	Signed
Frank Cook	09/02/1993	Stockton North	Signed
Michael Colvin	09/02/1993	Romsey and Waterside	Signed
Winston Churchill	09/02/1993	Davyhulme	Signed
Menzies Campbell	09/02/1993	Fife North East	Signed
John McWilliam	09/02/1993	Blaydon	Signed
Michael Lord	10/02/1993	Suffolk Central	Signed
Calum MacDonald	10/02/1993	Na h-Eileanan an Iar	Signed
Andrew Faulds	10/02/1993	Warley East	Signed
Jack Thompson	10/02/1993	Wansbeck	Signed
Gwyneth Dunwoody	11/02/1993	Crewe & Nantwich	Signed
Nicholas Winterton	11/02/1993	Macclesfield	Signed
Paul Tyler	11/02/1993	North Cornwall	Signed
Peter Temple-Morris	11/02/1993	Leominster	Signed
Matthew Taylor	11/02/1993	Truro	Signed
Den Dover	11/02/1993	Chorley	Signed
Allan Rogers	11/02/1993	Rhondda	Signed
Martin Smyth	11/02/1993	Belfast South	Signed
Barry Jones	11/02/1993	Alyn & Deeside	Signed
Geoffrey Dickens	11/02/1993	Littleborough and Saddleworth	Signed
Tom Cox	11/02/1993	Tooting	Signed
Patrick Cormack	12/02/1993	South Staffordshire	Signed
Margaret Ewing	12/02/1993	Moray	Signed
Ann Winterton	12/02/1993	Congleton	Signed
Mark Wolfson	12/02/1993	Sevenoaks	Signed
Nigel Jones	15/02/1993	Cheltenham	Signed
William McCrea	15/02/1993	Mid Ulster	Signed
Peter Griffiths	15/02/1993	Portsmouth North	Signed
Harry Greenway	15/02/1993	Ealing North	Signed
Christopher Gill	15/02/1993	Ludlow	Signed
Mike Gapes	15/02/1993	Ilford South	Signed
Roland Boyes	15/02/1993	Houghton and Washington	Signed
Olga Maitland	15/02/1993	Sutton & Cheam	Signed
Andrew Hunter	15/02/1993	Basingstoke	Signed
Joyce Quin	15/02/1993	Gateshead East	Signed
Keith Vaz	16/02/1993	Leicester East	Signed
John Spellar	16/02/1993	Warley West	Signed
Don Foster	16/02/1993	Bath	Signed
Llin Golding	16/02/1993	Newcastle-under-Lyme	Signed
Andrew Robathan	16/02/1993	Blaby	Signed
Greville Janner	17/02/1993	Leicester West	Signed
Edward O'Hara	17/02/1993	Knowsley South	Signed
Jamie Cann	17/02/1993	Ipswich	Signed
James Couchman	17/02/1993	Gillingham	Signed
John Gilbert	17/02/1993	Dudley East	Signed
Norman Godman	17/02/1993	Greenock and Port Glasgow	Signed
David Alton	17/02/1993	Liverpool Mossley Hill	Signed
Alan Beith	17/02/1993	Berwick-upon-Tweed	Signed
Vivian Bendall	17/02/1993	Ilford North	Signed
Jim Wallace	17/02/1993	Orkney & Shetland	Signed
Dudley Smith	17/02/1993	Warwick & Leamington	Signed
Nick Harvey	18/02/1993	North Devon	Signed
James Hill	19/02/1993	Southampton, Test	Signed
Julian Critchley	19/02/1993	Aldershot	Signed
Win Griffiths	22/02/1993	Bridgend	Signed
Lewis Moonie	22/02/1993	Kirkcaldy	Signed
Michael Martin	22/02/1993	Glasgow, Springburn	Signed
Jane Kennedy	22/02/1993	Liverpool Broadgreen	Signed
Peter Robinson	23/02/1993	Belfast East	Signed
Ray Michie	23/02/1993	Argyll & Bute	Signed
Malcolm Bruce	24/02/1993	Gordon	Signed
Stephen Day	24/02/1993	Cheadle	Signed
John Gorst	24/02/1993	Hendon North	Signed
Tommy Graham	25/02/1993	Renfrew West and Inverclyde	Signed
Roy Beggs	25/02/1993	East Antrim	Signed
Ian Paisley	26/02/1993	North Antrim	Signed
Bill Walker	05/03/1993	North Tayside	Signed
George Stevenson	11/03/1993	Stoke-on-Trent South	Signed
William Ross	18/03/1993	East Londonderry	Signed
Ken Maginnis	24/03/1993	Fermanagh & South Tyrone	Signed
Mike Watson	24/03/1993	Glasgow Central	Signed
Andrew MacKinlay	25/03/1993	Thurrock	Signed
William McKelvey	02/04/1993	Kilmarnock & Loudoun	Signed
Peter Viggers	Unknown		Withdrawn

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