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Nuclear Weapons Storage

EDM number 1959 in 2006-07, proposed by Dai Davies on 19/07/2007.

That this House notes with disappointment the written reply by the Ministry of Defence to the hon. Member for Portsmouth South of 18th July 2007, Official Report, column 405W, on the deployment of nuclear weapons at RAF Lakenheath, which declines to confirm the presence of United States-owned nuclear weapons deployed under the auspices of NATO; welcomes the revelation in the Radio 4 Document programme on 16th July that when United States nuclear armed cruise missiles were deployed at RAF Greenham Common between 1983 and 1991, despite safety warnings from scientists employed at AWE Aldermaston on behalf of the Ministry of Defence, 10 million people, including the population of London, could have been exposed to an inhalation hazard from plutonium if warheads exploded or caught fire; congratulates investigative journalist Rob Edwards for persisting through the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, to ensure these hitherto secret papers were released; and calls upon the Government to make public each of the full safety assessments conducted by British nuclear safety authorities, on the deployment of nuclear warheads at military bases in the United Kingdom and its overseas territories.

This motion has been signed by a total of 29 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Dai Davies19/07/2007Blaenau GwentIndependentProposed
Ian Gibson23/07/2007Norwich NorthLabourSeconded
Kelvin Hopkins23/07/2007Luton NorthLabourSeconded
Ann Cryer23/07/2007KeighleyLabourSeconded
Paul Flynn23/07/2007Newport WestLabourSeconded
Martin Caton24/07/2007GowerLabourSeconded
Linda Riordan24/07/2007HalifaxLabourSigned
Robert Wareing24/07/2007Liverpool, West DerbyLabourSigned
Rudi Vis24/07/2007Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Andrew George24/07/2007St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Jeremy Corbyn24/07/2007Islington NorthLabourSigned
Harry Cohen24/07/2007Leyton and WansteadLabourSigned
Vincent Cable24/07/2007TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Lynne Jones24/07/2007Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
David Drew24/07/2007StroudLabourSigned
David Lepper25/07/2007Brighton, PavilionLabourSigned
Elfyn Llwyd25/07/2007Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
John McDonnell25/07/2007Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Michael Weir25/07/2007AngusScottish National PartySigned
Katy Clark26/07/2007North Ayrshire and ArranLabourSigned
Adam Price08/10/2007Carmarthen East and DinefwrPlaid CymruSigned
Norman Baker08/10/2007LewesLiberal DemocratSigned
Joan Walley08/10/2007Stoke-on-Trent NorthLabourSigned
David Howarth08/10/2007CambridgeLiberal DemocratSigned
Greg Mulholland08/10/2007Leeds North WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Diane Abbott10/10/2007Hackney North and Stoke NewingtonLabourSigned
Bill Etherington15/10/2007Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Alan Simpson22/10/2007Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
David Hamilton24/10/2007MidlothianLabourSigned

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