Parliament Website

Freedom Of Speech

EDM number 1061 in 1995-96, proposed by Peter Bottomley on 26/06/1996.

That this House recognises the risks accepted by journalists in their task of gathering news and investigating possible wrong-doing and pays tribute to the life and work of Veronica Guerin of the Sunday Independent in Ireland who has been murdered.

This motion has been signed by a total of 37 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Peter Bottomley26/06/1996ElthamProposed
Martin Smyth27/06/1996Belfast SouthSigned
Eddie Loyden27/06/1996Liverpool, GarstonSigned
John Evans27/06/1996St Helens NorthSigned
Norman Godman27/06/1996Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
David Knox01/07/1996Staffordshire MoorlandsSigned
Tom Cox01/07/1996TootingSigned
Robert Wareing02/07/1996Liverpool, West DerbySigned
Peter Thurnham02/07/1996Bolton North EastSigned
Roy Beggs02/07/1996East AntrimSigned
Harry Barnes02/07/1996North East DerbyshireSigned
Tony Banks02/07/1996Newham North WestSigned
Maria Fyfe02/07/1996Glasgow, MaryhillSigned
Keith Bradley02/07/1996Manchester, WithingtonSigned
Bill Michie02/07/1996Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Ken Livingstone02/07/1996Brent EastSigned
Lynne Jones02/07/1996Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
Colin Pickthall02/07/1996West LancashireSigned
Andrew Faulds02/07/1996Warley EastSigned
Eric Illsley03/07/1996Barnsley CentralSigned
David Nicholson03/07/1996TauntonSigned
John Cummings03/07/1996EasingtonSigned
Paul Tyler03/07/1996North CornwallSigned
Jim Wallace03/07/1996Orkney & ShetlandSigned
Michael Connarty04/07/1996Falkirk EastSigned
David Winnick04/07/1996Walsall NorthSigned
Russell Johnston04/07/1996Inverness, Nairn and LochaberSigned
Peter Pike08/07/1996BurnleySigned
Anne Campbell08/07/1996CambridgeSigned
Nigel Jones09/07/1996CheltenhamSigned
Bill Etherington09/07/1996Sunderland NorthSigned
Win Griffiths09/07/1996BridgendSigned
Mike Hall10/07/1996Warrington SouthSigned
Nick Harvey11/07/1996North DevonSigned
Audrey Wise17/07/1996PrestonSigned
Martyn Jones18/07/1996Clwyd South WestSigned
Jack Thompson24/07/1996WansbeckSigned

Download raw data as csv or xml.