Northern Ireland Financial Divide Report
EDM number 551 in 2007-08, proposed by David Anderson on 11/12/2007.
Categorised under the topics of Schools and Terrorism.
That this House regrets the decision to erect a heavy-grade 25 feet tall security fence in the playground of Hazelwood Integrated Primary School in North Belfast at a cost of £250,000; urges a full review of the security fence at Hazelwood a year after its construction to ensure this temporary measure does not join so many others in becoming permanent; believes that the cost of the Hazelwood fence is a sad symbol of wider costs of sectarianism in Northern Ireland; notes that in 2006 the Government commissioned Deloitte to produce a report entitled Research into the Financial Cost of the Northern Ireland Divide and that the report of April 2007 revealed that almost £1.5 billion on policing, education, housing, health and other provisions is spent annually from the public purse on duplicated services; and urges policy-makers to encourage and facilitate integrated education, particularly in teacher training, as well as collaboration between different school sectors as part of concerted and longer-term efforts to foster reconciliation and understanding between different communities in Northern Ireland and save public money.
This motion has been signed by a total of 10 MPs.
MP | Date | Constituency | Party | Type |
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David Anderson | 11/12/2007 | Blaydon | Labour | Proposed |
Peter Bottomley | 12/12/2007 | Worthing West | Conservative | Seconded |
Lynne Jones | 12/12/2007 | Birmingham, Selly Oak | Labour | Seconded |
Alan Simpson | 12/12/2007 | Nottingham South | Labour | Seconded |
Rudi Vis | 12/12/2007 | Finchley and Golders Green | Labour | Seconded |
John McDonnell | 12/12/2007 | Hayes and Harlington | Labour | Seconded |
Kelvin Hopkins | 13/12/2007 | Luton North | Labour | Signed |
Brian Jenkins | 13/12/2007 | Tamworth | Labour | Signed |
Jeremy Corbyn | 13/12/2007 | Islington North | Labour | Signed |
Bill Etherington | 17/01/2008 | Sunderland North | Labour | Signed |
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