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Dining Room Staff Beards

EDM number 713 in 1995-96, proposed by Colin Pickthall on 02/04/1996.

That this House deplores the instructions to the Dining Room staff by the House of Commons Refreshment Department that they can no longer have beards; regards this instruction as a gross infringement of male liberties;re-asserts that the sporting of a beard is a harmless and reasonable and perfectly hygenic habit; and instructs the Refreshment Department to rescind this absurd prohibition forthwith.

This motion has been signed by a total of 29 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Colin Pickthall02/04/1996West LancashireProposed
Lynne Jones03/04/1996Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
Alan Meale03/04/1996MansfieldSigned
Bill Michie03/04/1996Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Eric Clarke03/04/1996MidlothianSigned
John Evans03/04/1996St Helens NorthSigned
Harry Barnes03/04/1996North East DerbyshireSigned
Paddy Tipping03/04/1996SherwoodSigned
Mike Hall17/04/1996Warrington SouthSigned
Jack Thompson17/04/1996WansbeckSigned
David Clelland18/04/1996Tyne BridgeSigned
John Cummings18/04/1996EasingtonSigned
Bill Etherington18/04/1996Sunderland NorthSigned
Paul Tyler18/04/1996North CornwallSigned
Ian McCartney19/04/1996MakerfieldSigned
Martin Redmond22/04/1996Don ValleySigned
Clive Soley22/04/1996HammersmithSigned
Ken Livingstone22/04/1996Brent EastSigned
Andrew Faulds23/04/1996Warley EastSigned
Mike Watson23/04/1996Glasgow CentralSigned
Paul Flynn24/04/1996Newport WestSigned
Russell Johnston29/04/1996Inverness, Nairn and LochaberSigned
Martyn Jones30/04/1996Clwyd South WestSigned
Dale Campbell-Savours02/05/1996WorkingtonSigned
Jim Wallace02/05/1996Orkney & ShetlandSigned
Elfyn Llwyd07/05/1996Meirionnydd Nant ConwySigned
Robert Parry09/05/1996Liverpool, RiversideSigned
Don Touhig15/05/1996IslwynSigned
Nigel Jones21/05/1996CheltenhamSigned

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