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Annual Merchant Navy Day

EDM number 1399 in 1997-98, proposed by Lawrie Quinn on 08/06/1998.

That this House welcomes the Merchant Navy Association's campaign for the recognition and establishment of an official Merchant Navy Day in the United Kingdom; believes that it would be appropriate to commemorate the service of past and present seafarers on 3rd September each year, as the day on which British merchant seamen became the first casualties of World War II and as such symbolising the many sacrifices made by those who contributed to the security and prosperity of this island nation; and urges Her Majesty's Government to give early consideration to these proposals, which honour a significant historic contribution and would focus attention on the urgent need to rebuild a strategically importance British merchant fleet.

This motion has been signed by a total of 81 MPs, 2 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Lawrie Quinn08/06/1998Scarborough & WhitbyLabourProposed
Stephen Pound08/06/1998Ealing NorthLabourSigned
Anthony D Wright08/06/1998Great YarmouthLabourSigned
Alan Whitehead08/06/1998Southampton, TestLabourSigned
Donald Anderson08/06/1998Swansea EastLabourSigned
Gwyneth Dunwoody08/06/1998Crewe & NantwichLabourSigned
John Cryer08/06/1998HornchurchLabourSigned
Alan Campbell08/06/1998TynemouthLabourSigned
Alan Johnson08/06/1998Kingston upon Hull West & HessleLabourSigned
Stephen Hepburn08/06/1998JarrowLabourSigned
Ivan Henderson08/06/1998HarwichLabourSigned
Dennis Skinner08/06/1998BolsoverLabourSigned
Jonathan R Shaw08/06/1998Chatham & AylesfordLabourSigned
Gwyn Prosser08/06/1998DoverLabourSigned
Austin Mitchell09/06/1998Great GrimsbyLabourSigned
Jim Wallace09/06/1998Orkney & ShetlandLiberal DemocratSigned
Norman Godman09/06/1998Greenock & InverclydeLabourSigned
Andrew Dismore09/06/1998HendonLabourSigned
John Cummings09/06/1998EasingtonLabourSigned
Peter Brand09/06/1998Isle of WightLiberal DemocratSigned
Shona McIsaac09/06/1998CleethorpesLabourSigned
Richard Livsey09/06/1998Brecon & RadnorshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Julian Lewis09/06/1998New Forest EastConservativeSigned
Ashok Kumar09/06/1998Middlesbrough South & East ClevelandLabourSigned
Adrian Sanders09/06/1998TorbayLiberal DemocratSigned
Kevin McNamara10/06/1998Kingston upon Hull NorthLabourSigned
Jackie Ballard10/06/1998TauntonLiberal DemocratSigned
Norman Baker10/06/1998LewesLiberal DemocratSigned
John Austin10/06/1998Erith & ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Eileen Gordon10/06/1998RomfordLabourSigned
Ian Gibson10/06/1998Norwich NorthLabourSigned
Bill Michie10/06/1998Sheffield, HeeleyLabourSigned
Tim Loughton10/06/1998East Worthing & ShorehamConservativeSigned
Fraser Kemp10/06/1998Houghton & Washington EastLabourSigned
Lindsay Hoyle10/06/1998ChorleyLabourSigned
Syd Rapson10/06/1998Portsmouth NorthLabourSigned
Paul Tyler11/06/1998North CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Rudi Vis11/06/1998Finchley & Golders GreenLabourSigned
Bill Etherington11/06/1998Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Edward O'Hara11/06/1998Knowsley SouthLabourSigned
Ian Davidson11/06/1998Glasgow, PollokLabour Co-operativeSigned
Eric Illsley11/06/1998Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Angela Smith15/06/1998BasildonLabour Co-operativeSigned
Laura Moffatt16/06/1998CrawleyLabourSigned
Eric Clarke16/06/1998MidlothianLabourSigned
Mike Hancock16/06/1998Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Nigel Beard16/06/1998Bexleyheath & CrayfordLabourSigned
Alan Beith16/06/1998Berwick-upon-TweedLiberal DemocratSigned
Peter Bottomley16/06/1998Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Judith Church17/06/1998DagenhamLabourSigned
Robert Wareing17/06/1998Liverpool, West DerbyLabourSigned
Ann Cryer17/06/1998KeighleyLabourSigned
Gordon Marsden17/06/1998Blackpool SouthLabourSigned
Paul Keetch17/06/1998HerefordLiberal DemocratSigned
John McDonnell18/06/1998Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
Martin Caton18/06/1998GowerLabourSigned
Neil Gerrard19/06/1998WalthamstowLabourSigned
Brian Cotter24/06/1998Weston-Super-MareLiberal DemocratSigned
David Lepper25/06/1998Brighton, PavilionLabour Co-operativeSigned
Edward Davey25/06/1998Kingston & SurbitonLiberal DemocratSigned
Harry Barnes29/06/1998North East DerbyshireLabourSigned
Bob Blizzard29/06/1998WaveneyLabourSigned
Teddy Taylor02/07/1998Rochford & Southend EastConservativeSigned
Kerry Pollard03/07/1998St AlbansLabourSigned
Michael Colvin03/07/1998RomseyConservativeSigned
David Amess06/07/1998Southend WestConservativeSigned
Stephen Hesford09/07/1998Wirral WestLabourSigned
Ivan Lewis13/07/1998Bury SouthLabourSigned
Ken Livingstone15/07/1998Brent EastLabourSigned
Christopher Gill16/07/1998LudlowConservativeSigned
Roy Beggs16/07/1998East AntrimUUPSigned
Nigel Jones21/07/1998CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Richard Body22/07/1998Boston & SkegnessConservativeSigned
Peter Luff23/07/1998Mid WorcestershireConservativeSigned
David Chaytor29/07/1998Bury NorthLabourSigned
Hugh Bayley19/10/1998York, City ofLabourSigned
Alan Keen22/10/1998Feltham & HestonLabour Co-operativeSigned
Joe Benton22/10/1998BootleLabourSigned
Andrew George03/11/1998St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan MealeUnknownWithdrawn
Charles ClarkeUnknownWithdrawn

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