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Video Appeals Committee Decision On Manhunt 2

EDM number 590 in 2007-08, proposed by Keith Vaz on 17/12/2007.
Categorised under the topics of Information technology and Leisure.

That this House condemns the decision by the Video Appeals Committee to overturn the ban on the sale of the video game Manhunt 2; notes that the predecessor to this game, Manhunt, was linked to the death of Leicester school boy Stefan Pakeerah; congratulates the Culture, Media and Sports Committee on its inquiry into the effects of video games; and calls on the British Board of Film Classification to seek a judicial review of the Video Appeals Committee's decision.

This motion has been signed by a total of 27 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Keith Vaz17/12/2007Leicester EastLabourProposed
Peter Bottomley17/12/2007Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
David Taylor18/12/2007North West LeicestershireLabourSeconded
Andrew George18/12/2007St IvesLiberal DemocratSeconded
Ann Cryer18/12/2007KeighleyLabourSeconded
Jeremy Corbyn18/12/2007Islington NorthLabourSeconded
David Drew07/01/2008StroudLabourSigned
Michael Jabez Foster07/01/2008Hastings and RyeLabourSigned
Mike Hancock07/01/2008Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Meale08/01/2008MansfieldLabourSigned
Martin Caton08/01/2008GowerLabourSigned
Mark Durkan08/01/2008FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Clive Efford08/01/2008ElthamLabourSigned
Lindsay Hoyle09/01/2008ChorleyLabourSigned
Rudi Vis09/01/2008Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Janet Anderson09/01/2008Rossendale and DarwenLabourSigned
Ronnie Campbell09/01/2008Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Albert Owen09/01/2008Ynys MLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins09/01/2008TamworthLabourSigned
Nigel Dodds10/01/2008Belfast NorthDUPSigned
Hywel Francis10/01/2008AberavonLabourSigned
Alasdair McDonnell14/01/2008Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Bill Etherington21/01/2008Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Andy Reed24/01/2008LoughboroughLabourSigned
David Crausby26/02/2008Bolton North EastLabourSigned
Julian Brazier04/03/2008CanterburyConservativeSigned
John McDonnell25/11/2008Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned

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