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Recent Sectarian Attacks In Northern Ireland

EDM number 381 in 2000-01, proposed by John McDonnell on 27/02/2001.

That this House notes with extreme concern the rising number of sectarian attacks, including pipe bomb, nail bomb and firebomb attacks, directed against Catholic homes in parts of Northern Ireland in recent weeks; notes that 50 separate attacks have taken place since the beginning of this year, with particular intensity in Larne and north Belfast; is alarmed that these attacks, which have already caused serious injury in some cases, may result in fatalities if they are not stopped; believes that the perpetrators of the attacks are seeking to undermine the peace process and the Good Friday Agreement, which enshrined 'the right to freedom from sectarian harassment' for everyone in the community; and, in support of that commitment, calls upon the Government and the Secretary of State to take action with the utmost urgency to bring these attacks to an end.

This motion has been signed by a total of 33 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
John McDonnell27/02/2001Hayes & HarlingtonLabourProposed
Ken Livingstone27/02/2001Brent EastIndependentSigned
Jeremy Corbyn27/02/2001Islington NorthLabourSigned
Alan Simpson28/02/2001Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Lynne Jones28/02/2001Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Bill Michie28/02/2001Sheffield, HeeleyLabourSigned
Tony Clarke28/02/2001Northampton SouthLabourSigned
Frank Cook28/02/2001Stockton NorthLabourSigned
Harry Barnes28/02/2001North East DerbyshireLabourSigned
Peter Bottomley28/02/2001Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Robert Wareing28/02/2001Liverpool, West DerbyLabourSigned
Jim Dobbin01/03/2001Heywood & MiddletonLabour Co-operativeSigned
Harold Best01/03/2001Leeds North WestLabourSigned
George Galloway05/03/2001Glasgow, KelvinLabourSigned
Andrew George05/03/2001St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
David Drew05/03/2001StroudLabour Co-operativeSigned
Tom Cox05/03/2001TootingLabourSigned
Bill Etherington05/03/2001Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins06/03/2001Luton NorthLabourSigned
Kevin McNamara06/03/2001Kingston upon Hull NorthLabourSigned
Maria Fyfe06/03/2001Glasgow, MaryhillLabourSigned
Norman Godman06/03/2001Greenock & InverclydeLabourSigned
Andrew Dismore07/03/2001HendonLabourSigned
Michael Clapham07/03/2001Barnsley West & PenistoneLabourSigned
Stephen Pound07/03/2001Ealing NorthLabourSigned
Eric Illsley08/03/2001Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Ann Cryer12/03/2001KeighleyLabourSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe12/03/2001LeighLabourSigned
Donald Gorrie13/03/2001Edinburgh WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Rudi Vis13/03/2001Finchley & Golders GreenLabourSigned
Edward O'Hara14/03/2001Knowsley SouthLabourSigned
Lembit 20/03/2001MontgomeryshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Connarty28/03/2001Falkirk EastLabourSigned

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