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Select Committee On The Modernisation Of The House Of Commons

EDM number 119 in 1998-99, proposed by Nicholas Winterton on 14/12/1998.

That this House is concerned that the role of Parliament in the life of the nation had diminished in the past eighteen months and that the proposals in the latest report of the Select Committee on the Modernisation of the House of Commons do nothing to identify further measures to enable the House to hold the Government more effectively to account; presses the Committee to identify measures to do this in its future programme of work; and to this end urges the House not to endorce a recommendation to hold Questions on a Thursday at any time other than at 2.30 p.m.

This motion has been signed by a total of 53 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Nicholas Winterton14/12/1998MacclesfieldConservativeProposed
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown14/12/1998CotswoldConservativeSigned
Owen Paterson14/12/1998North ShropshireConservativeSigned
Michael Colvin14/12/1998RomseyConservativeSigned
Quentin Davies14/12/1998Grantham & StamfordConservativeSigned
David Davis14/12/1998Haltemprice & HowdenConservativeSigned
Alan Duncan14/12/1998Rutland & MeltonConservativeSigned
Peter Emery14/12/1998East DevonConservativeSigned
Michael Fabricant14/12/1998LichfieldConservativeSigned
Christopher Gill14/12/1998LudlowConservativeSigned
James Gray14/12/1998North WiltshireConservativeSigned
John Greenway14/12/1998RyedaleConservativeSigned
Archie Hamilton14/12/1998Epsom & EwellConservativeSigned
Philip Hammond14/12/1998Runnymede & WeybridgeConservativeSigned
Peter Atkinson14/12/1998HexhamConservativeSigned
John Bercow14/12/1998BuckinghamConservativeSigned
Desmond Swayne14/12/1998New Forest WestConservativeSigned
Peter Tapsell14/12/1998Louth & HorncastleConservativeSigned
John Townend14/12/1998East YorkshireConservativeSigned
David Tredinnick14/12/1998BosworthConservativeSigned
Peter Viggers14/12/1998GosportConservativeSigned
Charles Wardle14/12/1998Bexhill & BattleConservativeSigned
Bowen Wells14/12/1998Hertford & StortfordConservativeSigned
Ray Whitney14/12/1998WycombeConservativeSigned
John Wilkinson14/12/1998Ruislip - NorthwoodConservativeSigned
Sydney Chapman14/12/1998Chipping BarnetConservativeSigned
David Prior14/12/1998North NorfolkConservativeSigned
John Randall14/12/1998UxbridgeConservativeSigned
Laurence Robertson14/12/1998TewkesburyConservativeSigned
Marion Roe14/12/1998BroxbourneConservativeSigned
Andrew Rowe14/12/1998Faversham & Mid KentConservativeSigned
Richard Shepherd14/12/1998Aldridge-BrownhillsConservativeSigned
Michael Spicer14/12/1998West WorcestershireConservativeSigned
Nick St Aubyn14/12/1998GuildfordConservativeSigned
Nick Hawkins14/12/1998Surrey HeathConservativeSigned
Gerald Howarth14/12/1998AldershotConservativeSigned
Geoffrey Johnson Smith14/12/1998WealdenConservativeSigned
Robert Key14/12/1998SalisburyConservativeSigned
Jacqui Lait14/12/1998BeckenhamConservativeSigned
Julian Lewis14/12/1998New Forest EastConservativeSigned
Tim Loughton14/12/1998East Worthing & ShorehamConservativeSigned
Humfrey Malins14/12/1998WokingConservativeSigned
Michael Mates14/12/1998East HampshireConservativeSigned
Brian Mawhinney14/12/1998North West CambridgeshireConservativeSigned
Anne McIntosh14/12/1998Vale of YorkConservativeSigned
John Butterfill14/12/1998Bournemouth WestConservativeSigned
William Cash14/12/1998StoneConservativeSigned
Michael Clark14/12/1998RayleighConservativeSigned
Nigel Evans15/12/1998Ribble ValleyConservativeSigned
Ann Winterton15/12/1998CongletonConservativeSigned
William Ross16/12/1998East LondonderryUUPSigned
Howard Flight17/12/1998Arundel & South DownsConservativeSigned
Alan ClarkUnknownWithdrawn

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