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Improved Public Access To Parliament

EDM number 1580 in 1997-98, proposed by Austin Mitchell on 21/07/1998.

That this House, impressed with the success of the Gladstone Anniversary Exhibition in Westminster Hall, urges that the precedent be built on to provide, in the Hall, a welcoming visitor friendly, set of facilities for the use of constituents, including disabled persons, school parties, lobbying groups and all who come to see the splendours of the Palace of Westminster or to see their honourable Member by providing refreshments and light snacks, tables, seating, video displays, souvenir, memorabilia and book stalls, exhibition space and any other facilities which will make Parliament more accessible and provide an interesting and friendly environment for the thousands of people who pass through the Palace every year.

This motion has been signed by a total of 59 MPs, 2 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Austin Mitchell21/07/1998Great GrimsbyLabourProposed
Lawrie Quinn21/07/1998Scarborough & WhitbyLabourSigned
Julie Kirkbride21/07/1998BromsgroveConservativeSigned
Teresa Gorman21/07/1998BillericayConservativeSigned
Dafydd Wigley21/07/1998CaernarfonPlaid CymruSigned
Tony Wright21/07/1998Cannock ChaseLabourSigned
Martin Caton22/07/1998GowerLabourSigned
John Austin22/07/1998Erith & ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Jim Dobbin22/07/1998Heywood & MiddletonLabour Co-operativeSigned
Hilton Dawson22/07/1998Lancaster & WyreLabourSigned
Tom Cox22/07/1998TootingLabourSigned
Michael Clapham22/07/1998Barnsley West & PenistoneLabourSigned
Paul Marsden22/07/1998Shrewsbury & AtchamLabourSigned
David Lepper22/07/1998Brighton, PavilionLabour Co-operativeSigned
Dennis Skinner22/07/1998BolsoverLabourSigned
Bob Russell22/07/1998ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Ernie Ross22/07/1998Dundee WestLabourSigned
Colin Pickthall22/07/1998West LancashireLabourSigned
Roy Beggs23/07/1998East AntrimUUPSigned
Derek Wyatt23/07/1998Sittingbourne & SheppeyLabourSigned
Paul Tyler23/07/1998North CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Anne Begg23/07/1998Aberdeen SouthLabourSigned
Mike Hancock23/07/1998Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Ronnie Fearn23/07/1998SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
Robin Corbett23/07/1998Birmingham, ErdingtonLabourSigned
Bill Michie23/07/1998Sheffield, HeeleyLabourSigned
Colin Breed23/07/1998South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Simpson23/07/1998Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Nick Harvey23/07/1998North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
Lynne Jones23/07/1998Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Ashok Kumar23/07/1998Middlesbrough South & East ClevelandLabourSigned
Ivan Lewis23/07/1998Bury SouthLabourSigned
Tony Clarke24/07/1998Northampton SouthLabourSigned
Terry Davis24/07/1998Birmingham, Hodge HillLabourSigned
Ian Gibson24/07/1998Norwich NorthLabourSigned
Eileen Gordon24/07/1998RomfordLabourSigned
Audrey Wise24/07/1998PrestonLabourSigned
David Taylor27/07/1998North West LeicestershireLabour Co-operativeSigned
Robert Wareing27/07/1998Liverpool, West DerbyLabourSigned
Rudi Vis28/07/1998Finchley & Golders GreenLabourSigned
Andrew Stunell28/07/1998Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
Donald Gorrie28/07/1998Edinburgh WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Bill Etherington28/07/1998Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Norman Godman28/07/1998Greenock & InverclydeLabourSigned
Laura Moffatt28/07/1998CrawleyLabourSigned
Kevin McNamara28/07/1998Kingston upon Hull NorthLabourSigned
Michael Foster28/07/1998WorcesterLabourSigned
Gordon Marsden29/07/1998Blackpool SouthLabourSigned
Peter Brand29/07/1998Isle of WightLiberal DemocratSigned
Harry Barnes29/07/1998North East DerbyshireLabourSigned
Martin Salter30/07/1998Reading WestLabourSigned
Yvette Cooper31/07/1998Pontefract & CastlefordLabourSigned
Neil Gerrard31/07/1998WalthamstowLabourSigned
Evan Harris02/09/1998Oxford West & AbingdonLiberal DemocratSigned
John McDonnell04/11/1998Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
Brian Cotter09/11/1998Weston-Super-MareLiberal DemocratSigned
Clive Efford12/11/1998ElthamLabourSigned
Sydney ChapmanUnknownWithdrawn
Dennis TurnerUnknownWithdrawn

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