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Copex

EDM number 1518 in 1994-95, proposed by Ann Clwyd on 25/10/1995.

That this House is appalled that the Covert and Operational Procurement Exhibition (COPEX) highlighted in Channel Four's Dispatches programme, The Torture Trail, is being held at Sandown Race course in Esher, Surrey, from 31st October to 2nd November; notes that the exhibitors at COPEX includes companies supplying riot control and counter insurgency equipment and electro-shock weapons and that specialist law enforcement and intelligence agencies are among the groups invited to attend COPEX and that countries represented at the 1994 COPEX included China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Israel, Singapore, Columbia, Mexico and Algeria; and calls on Her Majesty's Government not to send representatives or provide any assistance to the organisers of COPEX nor to allow entry into the United Kingdom, for the purpose of attending COPEX, of representatives of governments with bad human rights records.

This motion has been signed by a total of 39 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Ann Clwyd25/10/1995Cynon ValleyProposed
Gordon Prentice25/10/1995PendleSigned
Tony Banks25/10/1995Newham North WestSigned
Nick Ainger25/10/1995PembrokeSigned
Neil Gerrard25/10/1995WalthamstowSigned
George Galloway25/10/1995Glasgow HillheadSigned
Paul Flynn25/10/1995Newport WestSigned
Jeremy Corbyn25/10/1995Islington NorthSigned
Michael Connarty25/10/1995Falkirk EastSigned
Dale Campbell-Savours25/10/1995WorkingtonSigned
Alice Mahon25/10/1995HalifaxSigned
Denis MacShane25/10/1995RotherhamSigned
John Home Robertson25/10/1995East LothianSigned
Norman Hogg25/10/1995Cumbernauld & KilsythSigned
David Hinchliffe25/10/1995WakefieldSigned
Win Griffiths26/10/1995BridgendSigned
Malcolm Chisholm26/10/1995Edinburgh LeithSigned
Bill Michie26/10/1995Sheffield, HeeleySigned
William McKelvey26/10/1995Kilmarnock & LoudounSigned
Helen Jackson26/10/1995Sheffield, HillsboroughSigned
John McAllion26/10/1995Dundee EastSigned
Eric Illsley26/10/1995Barnsley CentralSigned
Peter Hardy26/10/1995WentworthSigned
Dennis Skinner26/10/1995BolsoverSigned
Ernie Ross26/10/1995Dundee WestSigned
Lynne Jones26/10/1995Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
Diane Abbott27/10/1995Hackney North & Stoke NewingtonSigned
Andrew MacKinlay30/10/1995ThurrockSigned
Terry Davis30/10/1995Birmingham, Hodge HillSigned
Harry Barnes31/10/1995North East DerbyshireSigned
Clive Soley01/11/1995HammersmithSigned
Janet Anderson01/11/1995Rossendale & DarwenSigned
Mike Hall01/11/1995Warrington SouthSigned
John Cummings01/11/1995EasingtonSigned
Richard Burden01/11/1995Birmingham, NorthfieldSigned
Ken Livingstone02/11/1995Brent EastSigned
John Gunnell02/11/1995Leeds South and MorleySigned
Michael Clapham06/11/1995Barnsley West & PenistoneSigned
Jack Thompson07/11/1995WansbeckSigned

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