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Impunity In The Military

EDM number 1449 in 2005-06, proposed by Mark Durkan on 23/01/2006.

That this House welcomes the growing consensus that defence of the international rule of law requires maintenance of the strictest standards for military and enforcement agencies at all levels of the chain of command; deplores those regimes that routinely permit those found guilty of serious crimes to evade justice or resume their military careers after a short sentence; believes that a culture of impunity inevitably erodes military discipline and undermines any peacekeeping role the military is required to undertake; further believes that the armed forces should be an example in this regard and should ensure its disciplinary system is beyond criticism; and urges the Government to affirm that human rights abusers, killers, rapists and bullies are permanently excluded from military service and to restore the certainty that any member of the armed services having been convicted by a court of the most serious of crimes such as murder, rape or torture shall be dismissed from service and may not resume a service career.

This motion has been signed by a total of 55 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Mark Durkan23/01/2006FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartyProposed
Joan Humble23/01/2006Blackpool North and FleetwoodLabourSeconded
Sarah Teather23/01/2006Brent EastLiberal DemocratSeconded
Jim Dobbin23/01/2006Heywood and MiddletonLabourSeconded
David Taylor24/01/2006North West LeicestershireLabourSeconded
Peter Bottomley24/01/2006Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Lynne Jones24/01/2006Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Martin Caton24/01/2006GowerLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn24/01/2006Islington NorthLabourSigned
Ann Cryer24/01/2006KeighleyLabourSigned
Andrew Dismore24/01/2006HendonLabourSigned
Jim Devine24/01/2006LivingstonLabourSigned
Glenda Jackson25/01/2006Hampstead and HighgateLabourSigned
Madeleine Moon25/01/2006BridgendLabourSigned
Harry Cohen25/01/2006Leyton and WansteadLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins25/01/2006Luton NorthLabourSigned
Ken Purchase25/01/2006Wolverhampton North EastLabourSigned
Vincent Cable26/01/2006TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Clapham26/01/2006Barnsley West and PenistoneLabourSigned
Janet Dean26/01/2006BurtonLabourSigned
David Drew26/01/2006StroudLabourSigned
Janet Anderson26/01/2006Rossendale and DarwenLabourSigned
John Leech26/01/2006Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
David Lepper30/01/2006Brighton, PavilionLabourSigned
Diane Abbott30/01/2006Hackney North and Stoke NewingtonLabourSigned
Betty Williams30/01/2006ConwyLabourSigned
John McDonnell31/01/2006Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Sharon Hodgson31/01/2006Gateshead East and Washington WestLabourSigned
Mike Hancock31/01/2006Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Elfyn Llwyd31/01/2006Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Paul Flynn31/01/2006Newport WestLabourSigned
John Pugh01/02/2006SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Keetch01/02/2006HerefordLiberal DemocratSigned
Richard Burden01/02/2006Birmingham, NorthfieldLabourSigned
Bill Etherington01/02/2006Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Rudi Vis01/02/2006Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Hywel Williams02/02/2006CaernarfonPlaid CymruSigned
David Anderson06/02/2006BlaydonLabourSigned
David Howarth06/02/2006CambridgeLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Simpson07/02/2006Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Nick Harvey07/02/2006North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
John Hemming09/02/2006Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew Stunell09/02/2006Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
Eric Illsley13/02/2006Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Eddie McGrady13/02/2006South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
George Galloway13/02/2006Bethnal Green and BowRespectSigned
Alasdair McDonnell14/02/2006Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Lembit 16/02/2006MontgomeryshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Richard Younger-Ross28/02/2006TeignbridgeLiberal DemocratSigned
Dan Rogerson08/03/2006North CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Jo Swinson13/03/2006East DunbartonshireLiberal DemocratSigned
John Battle20/04/2006Leeds WestLabourSigned
Chris McCafferty24/04/2006Calder ValleyLabourSigned
Clare Short27/04/2006Birmingham, LadywoodLabourSigned
Mark Oaten19/07/2006WinchesterLiberal DemocratSigned

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