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Paul Cunningham And The Foreign And Commonwealth Office

EDM number 78 in 1996-97, proposed by Keith Vaz on 28/10/1996.

That this House condemns the handling by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the case of Paul Cunningham, who was pronounced 'dead' by the Foreign Office on 10th October 1996 without adequate and proper checks being carried out on the inaccurate information given by the Malaysian police; notes that contrary to the Foreign Office view, Mr Cunningham was not dead but had previously notified the British High Commission of his missing passport which had subsequently been altered and used by a heroin smuggler; considers it lamentable that Mr Cunningham and his family were subjected, through this lack of care by the Foreign Office, to enormous distress and anxiety; further considers the response by the Foreign Office once the truth was discovered to be totally unacceptable; and calls on the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs to initiate an immediate inquiry into this matter with a view to ensuring that this state of affairs never occurs again.

This motion has been signed by a total of 22 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Keith Vaz28/10/1996Leicester EastProposed
Lynne Jones29/10/1996Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
Bill Michie29/10/1996Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Michael Connarty29/10/1996Falkirk EastSigned
Harry Barnes29/10/1996North East DerbyshireSigned
Tom Cox30/10/1996TootingSigned
Jack Thompson30/10/1996WansbeckSigned
Eric Clarke30/10/1996MidlothianSigned
Alan Meale30/10/1996MansfieldSigned
Kevin McNamara30/10/1996Kingston upon Hull NorthSigned
William McKelvey30/10/1996Kilmarnock & LoudounSigned
John McAllion30/10/1996Dundee EastSigned
Eddie Loyden30/10/1996Liverpool, GarstonSigned
Brian Jenkins31/10/1996Staffordshire South EastSigned
Michael Clapham31/10/1996Barnsley West & PenistoneSigned
Denis MacShane04/11/1996RotherhamSigned
Tommy Graham06/11/1996Renfrew West and InverclydeSigned
Mike Hall06/11/1996Warrington SouthSigned
Martyn Jones07/11/1996Clwyd South WestSigned
Dale Campbell-Savours07/11/1996WorkingtonSigned
Allan Rogers03/12/1996RhonddaSigned
Ken Livingstone06/12/1996Brent EastSigned

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