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Access To Art And The Turner Bequest

EDM number 1636 in 2003-04, proposed by Austin Mitchell on 09/09/2004.

That this House is concerned that the generous intentions of J.M.W. Turner's first bequest to the nation are not being fulfilled by the trustees of the National Gallery and that, as a result, the people of Britain who are owners of the art are being impoverished by lack of an informed access to an art bequest intended to enrich their lives; and calls for the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport to order the National Gallery to display properly Turner's bequest to explain and sustain his intentions for the benefit of the owners of the art and to review a trustee system which leaves the National Gallery unaccountable to the British people.

This motion has been signed by a total of 39 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Austin Mitchell09/09/2004Great GrimsbyLabourProposed
Sydney Chapman13/09/2004Chipping BarnetConservativeSigned
Harold Best13/09/2004Leeds North WestLabourSigned
Ann Cryer13/09/2004KeighleyLabourSigned
Mike Hancock14/09/2004Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Robert Wareing14/09/2004Liverpool, West DerbyLabourSigned
Clive Efford15/09/2004ElthamLabourSigned
Paul Flynn15/09/2004Newport WestLabourSigned
Win Griffiths15/09/2004BridgendLabourSigned
Roger Williams15/09/2004Brecon & RadnorshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Julie Morgan16/09/2004Cardiff NorthLabourSigned
Eric Illsley16/09/2004Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Nigel Jones16/09/2004CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
John McDonnell16/09/2004Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn16/09/2004Islington NorthLabourSigned
Brian Cotter16/09/2004Weston-Super-MareLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Tyler16/09/2004North CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Betty Williams16/09/2004ConwyLabourSigned
Andrew Dismore11/10/2004HendonLabourSigned
Alan Simpson11/10/2004Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Rob Marris14/10/2004Wolverhampton South WestLabourSigned
Michael Fallon15/10/2004SevenoaksConservativeSigned
Alan Meale18/10/2004MansfieldLabourSigned
John Wilkinson18/10/2004Ruislip - NorthwoodConservativeSigned
John Horam19/10/2004OrpingtonConservativeSigned
Colin Breed19/10/2004South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Jim Cunningham19/10/2004Coventry SouthLabourSigned
Don Foster19/10/2004BathLiberal DemocratSigned
Mike Wood19/10/2004Batley & SpenLabourSigned
Marsha Singh21/10/2004Bradford WestLabourSigned
Bill Etherington21/10/2004Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Helen Clark21/10/2004PeterboroughLabourSigned
Roger Godsiff25/10/2004Birmingham, Sparkbrook & Small HeathLabourSigned
George Mudie26/10/2004Leeds EastLabourSigned
Paul Keetch27/10/2004HerefordLiberal DemocratSigned
Elfyn Llwyd28/10/2004Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Joan Walley01/11/2004Stoke-on-Trent NorthLabourSigned
Rudi Vis10/11/2004Finchley & Golders GreenLabourSigned
Tom Brake17/11/2004Carshalton & WallingtonLiberal DemocratSigned

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