QUEEN'S JUBILEE MEDAL AND MERCHANT SEAMEN (EDM1366)

QUEEN'S JUBILEE MEDAL AND MERCHANT SEAMEN

EDM number 1366 in 2001-02, proposed by Paul Holmes on 21/05/2002.

That this House strongly disapproves of the Government's refusal to extend the eligibility to the Queen's Jubilee medal beyond serving members of the armed forces and Royal Fleet Auxiliary and 999 emergency services meeting length of service criteria and holders of the George or Victoria Crosses; especially deplores the failure to redress this historic lack of formal recognition given to members of the Merchant Navy, whose massive sacrifice in the Second World War kept Great Britain and the Soviet Union from defeat; furthermore, pays tribute to the 33,000 merchant seaman who between 1939 and 1945 paid for the defence of their country with their lives; regards this latest snub as all the more insulting given the coincidence of the Jubilee and the 20th anniversary of the reclamation of the Falklands Islands, in which merchant sailors played an essential role; and calls for an immediate reversal of the Government's position.

This motion has been signed by a total of 48 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Paul Holmes	21/05/2002	Chesterfield	Liberal Democrat	Proposed
Alistair Carmichael	21/05/2002	Orkney & Shetland	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Richard Younger-Ross	21/05/2002	Teignbridge	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Phil Willis	21/05/2002	Harrogate & Knaresborough	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Barrett	21/05/2002	Edinburgh West	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Mike Hancock	21/05/2002	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Matthew Green	21/05/2002	Ludlow	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Edward Davey	21/05/2002	Kingston & Surbiton	Liberal Democrat	Signed
David Chidgey	21/05/2002	Eastleigh	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Annette Brooke	21/05/2002	Mid Dorset & North Poole	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Colin Breed	21/05/2002	South East Cornwall	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Tom Brake	21/05/2002	Carshalton & Wallington	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Mark Oaten	21/05/2002	Winchester	Liberal Democrat	Signed
David Laws	21/05/2002	Yeovil	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Norman Lamb	21/05/2002	North Norfolk	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Nick Harvey	21/05/2002	North Devon	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Bob Russell	21/05/2002	Colchester	Liberal Democrat	Signed
David Rendel	21/05/2002	Newbury	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Alan Reid	21/05/2002	Argyll & Bute	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Pugh	21/05/2002	Southport	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Vincent Cable	22/05/2002	Twickenham	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Peter Bottomley	22/05/2002	Worthing West	Conservative	Signed
Andrew George	22/05/2002	St Ives	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Annabelle Ewing	22/05/2002	Perth	Scottish National Party	Signed
Paul Marsden	22/05/2002	Shrewsbury & Atcham	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Nigel Jones	22/05/2002	Cheltenham	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Martin Smyth	22/05/2002	Belfast South	UUP	Signed
Paul Burstow	22/05/2002	Sutton & Cheam	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Angus Robertson	23/05/2002	Moray	Scottish National Party	Signed
Andrew Rosindell	23/05/2002	Romford	Conservative	Signed
Lindsay Hoyle	23/05/2002	Chorley	Labour	Signed
Julian Lewis	23/05/2002	New Forest East	Conservative	Signed
Roy Beggs	23/05/2002	East Antrim	UUP	Signed
Paul Tyler	23/05/2002	North Cornwall	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Michael Weir	23/05/2002	Angus	Scottish National Party	Signed
Iris Robinson	10/06/2002	Strangford	DUP	Signed
Alex Salmond	11/06/2002	Banff & Buchan	Scottish National Party	Signed
Andrew Stunell	11/06/2002	Hazel Grove	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Derek Wyatt	12/06/2002	Sittingbourne & Sheppey	Labour	Signed
John Lyons	13/06/2002	Strathkelvin & Bearsden	Labour	Signed
Andrew Dismore	13/06/2002	Hendon	Labour	Signed
Ian Davidson	17/06/2002	Glasgow, Pollok	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Patsy Calton	18/06/2002	Cheadle	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Albert Owen	25/06/2002	Ynys M	Labour	Signed
John McDonnell	02/07/2002	Hayes & Harlington	Labour	Signed
Alan Simpson	04/07/2002	Nottingham South	Labour	Signed
George Mudie	04/07/2002	Leeds East	Labour	Signed
Tony Clarke	17/07/2002	Northampton South	Labour	Signed

Download raw data as csv or xml.