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Future Of The National Missing Persons Helpline

EDM number 258 in 1995-96, proposed by Simon Hughes on 10/01/1996.

That this House strongly commends the work of the National Missing Persons Helpline; notes that the Helpline receives over 80,000 calls a year and has achieved a success rate of 64 per cent. of those cases that it publicises; further notes that it receives over 30 calls a day from the police needing its help and has so far received glowing testimonials from 22 chief constables from around the United Kingdom; further notes the particular help it gave to the investigations at 25 Cromwell Street, identifying four of the victims; is concerned that the Helpline is fast becoming a victim of its own success, as it relies mostly on unpaid volunteers to cover its burgeoning work; notes that the Helpline does not receive a penny of public funds and that its application has now been turned down by the National Lottery Charities Board; is deeply concerned that its dire financial position has led to the Helpline becoming seriously overstretched; and calls on the Home Secretary to urgently consider the Helpline's appeals for public support.

This motion has been signed by a total of 69 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Simon Hughes10/01/1996Southwark and BermondseyProposed
Kate Hoey10/01/1996VauxhallSigned
Liz Lynne10/01/1996RochdaleSigned
Austin Mitchell10/01/1996Great GrimsbySigned
Richard Tracey10/01/1996SurbitonSigned
Tony Banks11/01/1996Newham North WestSigned
Llin Golding11/01/1996Newcastle-under-LymeSigned
Norman Godman11/01/1996Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
Maria Fyfe11/01/1996Glasgow, MaryhillSigned
Jeremy Corbyn11/01/1996Islington NorthSigned
John McAllion11/01/1996Dundee EastSigned
Lynne Jones11/01/1996Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
Barry Jones11/01/1996Alyn & DeesideSigned
Ernie Ross11/01/1996Dundee WestSigned
Bridget Prentice11/01/1996Lewisham EastSigned
William McKelvey11/01/1996Kilmarnock & LoudounSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe15/01/1996LeighSigned
Dafydd Wigley15/01/1996CaernarfonSigned
Neil Gerrard15/01/1996WalthamstowSigned
Harry Cohen15/01/1996LeytonSigned
Alex Carlile15/01/1996MontgomerySigned
Ken Livingstone15/01/1996Brent EastSigned
Russell Johnston15/01/1996Inverness, Nairn and LochaberSigned
Jim Wallace16/01/1996Orkney & ShetlandSigned
Paddy Tipping16/01/1996SherwoodSigned
Hugh Bayley16/01/1996York, City ofSigned
Harry Barnes16/01/1996North East DerbyshireSigned
John Gunnell16/01/1996Leeds South and MorleySigned
Menzies Campbell16/01/1996Fife North EastSigned
James Callaghan16/01/1996Heywood & MiddletonSigned
Bill Michie16/01/1996Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Keith Bradley16/01/1996Manchester, WithingtonSigned
Robert Parry16/01/1996Liverpool, RiversideSigned
Allan Rogers16/01/1996RhonddaSigned
Peter Hardy16/01/1996WentworthSigned
Eric Illsley16/01/1996Barnsley CentralSigned
Glenda Jackson16/01/1996Hampstead & HighgateSigned
Eddie Loyden16/01/1996Liverpool, GarstonSigned
David Knox17/01/1996Staffordshire MoorlandsSigned
Alan Meale17/01/1996MansfieldSigned
Andrew Miller17/01/1996Ellesmere Port & NestonSigned
Eric Clarke17/01/1996MidlothianSigned
Jean Corston17/01/1996Bristol EastSigned
Roger Godsiff17/01/1996Birmingham Small HeathSigned
Mike Hall17/01/1996Warrington SouthSigned
John Battle17/01/1996Leeds WestSigned
Alan Williams17/01/1996Swansea WestSigned
Win Griffiths18/01/1996BridgendSigned
Don Foster18/01/1996BathSigned
David Chidgey18/01/1996EastleighSigned
Martyn Jones18/01/1996Clwyd South WestSigned
Alan Simpson18/01/1996Nottingham SouthSigned
Michael Clapham18/01/1996Barnsley West & PenistoneSigned
Ray Michie19/01/1996Argyll & ButeSigned
Roland Boyes19/01/1996Houghton and WashingtonSigned
Tom Cox19/01/1996TootingSigned
David Nicholson22/01/1996TauntonSigned
Janet Anderson22/01/1996Rossendale & DarwenSigned
Bill Etherington23/01/1996Sunderland NorthSigned
Kim Howells25/01/1996PontypriddSigned
Ian McCartney25/01/1996MakerfieldSigned
Nigel Jones25/01/1996CheltenhamSigned
Jack Thompson30/01/1996WansbeckSigned
Nick Harvey01/02/1996North DevonSigned
Audrey Wise06/02/1996PrestonSigned
Terry Davis07/02/1996Birmingham, Hodge HillSigned
Terry Rooney08/02/1996Bradford NorthSigned
Greg Pope15/02/1996HyndburnSigned
Dale Campbell-Savours15/02/1996WorkingtonSigned

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