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Conduct Of The Honourable Member For Morecambe And Lunesdale, Arms Sale And Trade

EDM number 1187 in 1993-94, proposed by Llew Smith on 09/05/1994.

That this House notes that in the Dispatches programme which exposed the ways Ministers can withhold information from Parliament, the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs asserted he had said 'No' when asked by the honourable Member for Blaenau, Gwent whether the decision to grant support for the Pergau Hydro-electric project in Malaysia was linked to any other bilateral trade agreement because he was not prepared to go into any detailed qualification of the word 'No' since 'The Secretary of State himself was giving evidence to the Select Committee two days later' and that it seemed to him 'That's where the matter should be properly investigated'; notes that Parliament was prorogued on 5th November; notes that the Foreign Secretary appeared before the Foreign Affairs Committee on 23rd November but did not discuss Pergau before the Committee until four months later on 2nd March; further notes that at that hearing the Foreign Secretary did admit to a 'temporary entanglement' between arms sales and aid given to Malaysia; notes the Foreign Secretary failed to reveal this in replying to the Right honourable Member for Copeland's question on this matter on 25th January; is concerned that the Parliamentary Under Secretary simply referred to the Foreign Secretary's partial reply in refusing to correct his reply of 3rd November, when requested to do so by the honourable Member for Blaenau, Gwent on 26th January; believes this misrepresentation demonstrates a failure to convey the facts to Parliament; and calls for both Ministers to apologise to Parliament and then resign.

This motion has been signed by a total of 36 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Llew Smith09/05/1994Blaenau GwentProposed
Alice Mahon09/05/1994HalifaxSigned
Ian McCartney09/05/1994MakerfieldSigned
Robert Parry10/05/1994Liverpool, RiversideSigned
Alan Simpson10/05/1994Nottingham SouthSigned
Dennis Skinner10/05/1994BolsoverSigned
Lynne Jones10/05/1994Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
Keith Bradley10/05/1994Manchester, WithingtonSigned
Michael Connarty10/05/1994Falkirk EastSigned
John Cummings10/05/1994EasingtonSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe10/05/1994LeighSigned
John Evans10/05/1994St Helens NorthSigned
Harry Barnes10/05/1994North East DerbyshireSigned
John Battle10/05/1994Leeds WestSigned
Dennis Turner11/05/1994Wolverhampton South EastSigned
Janet Anderson11/05/1994Rossendale & DarwenSigned
Bill Michie11/05/1994Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Terry Patchett11/05/1994Barnsley EastSigned
Norman Godman11/05/1994Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
Colin Pickthall12/05/1994West LancashireSigned
Eric Illsley12/05/1994Barnsley CentralSigned
Alan Meale12/05/1994MansfieldSigned
Eric Clarke12/05/1994MidlothianSigned
Jim Dowd12/05/1994Lewisham WestSigned
Ken Livingstone13/05/1994Brent EastSigned
Jeremy Corbyn16/05/1994Islington NorthSigned
Jimmy Dunnachie17/05/1994Glasgow, PollokSigned
Tommy Graham17/05/1994Renfrew West and InverclydeSigned
Max Madden18/05/1994Bradford WestSigned
Paul Flynn19/05/1994Newport WestSigned
Martyn Jones14/06/1994Clwyd South WestSigned
Harry Cohen17/06/1994LeytonSigned
Mike Hall22/06/1994Warrington SouthSigned
Jack Thompson30/06/1994WansbeckSigned
Dale Campbell-Savours07/07/1994WorkingtonSigned
Audrey Wise11/07/1994PrestonSigned

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