Turner Bequest (EDM1909)

Turner Bequest

EDM number 1909 in 2005-06, proposed by Austin Mitchell on 28/03/2006.

That this House is concerned that the trustees of the National Gallery continue to disregard JMW Turner's intentions for his first art bequest to the nation with the consequence that they deprive the people of Great Britain of the opportunity to make this bequest a Royal Tribute to HM Queen Elizabeth II on her 80th Birthday as Champion of Humanity's Progress in Peace; and therefore calls on the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport to intervene and require the National Gallery to display properly this crown jewel of Turner's output in time for HM the Queen's Birthday on 21st April and to review and reform the Trustee system of the National Gallery which is unaccountable to the British people who own the art therein.

This motion has been signed by a total of 19 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Austin Mitchell	28/03/2006	Great Grimsby	Labour	Proposed
Andrew Dismore	29/03/2006	Hendon	Labour	Seconded
Jeremy Corbyn	29/03/2006	Islington North	Labour	Seconded
Bob Spink	29/03/2006	Castle Point	Conservative	Seconded
Alan Meale	30/03/2006	Mansfield	Labour	Seconded
Ann Cryer	30/03/2006	Keighley	Labour	Seconded
Kelvin Hopkins	30/03/2006	Luton North	Labour	Signed
Alan Simpson	18/04/2006	Nottingham South	Labour	Signed
Mike Hancock	18/04/2006	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Ronnie Campbell	19/04/2006	Blyth Valley	Labour	Signed
Nicholas Winterton	19/04/2006	Macclesfield	Conservative	Signed
Brian Jenkins	20/04/2006	Tamworth	Labour	Signed
Paul Keetch	20/04/2006	Hereford	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Nigel Dodds	24/04/2006	Belfast North	DUP	Signed
Ben Wallace	24/04/2006	Lancaster and Wyre	Conservative	Signed
Helen Goodman	25/04/2006	Bishop Auckland	Labour	Signed
John Hemming	27/04/2006	Birmingham, Yardley	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Janet Anderson	03/05/2006	Rossendale and Darwen	Labour	Signed
John McDonnell	06/11/2006	Hayes and Harlington	Labour	Signed

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