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Dragonflies

EDM number 9 in 2008-09, proposed by Bob Russell on 03/12/2008.
Categorised under the topic of Nature conservation.

That this House registers its deep concern at the serious threat to dragonflies as a result of changes in farming techniques and climate change, with some species facing extinction; notes that a third of Great Britain's 39 species of dragonfly and the closely related damselfly are declining; welcomes the launch by the British Dragonfly Society of a five-year campaign to protect the creatures and track their movements, including the establishment of a dragonfly atlas; and calls on the Government to promote cross-departmental policies to assist the British Dragonfly Society in its objectives of safeguarding the nation's dragonflies.

This motion has been signed by a total of 44 MPs, 3 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Bob Russell03/12/2008ColchesterLiberal DemocratProposed
John Hemming03/12/2008Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSeconded
Peter Bottomley03/12/2008Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Adrian Sanders04/12/2008TorbayLiberal DemocratSeconded
Lynne Jones04/12/2008Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSeconded
Colin Breed04/12/2008South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSeconded
Derek Conway08/12/2008Old Bexley and SidcupIndependentSigned
Mark Hunter08/12/2008CheadleLiberal DemocratSigned
Mark Williams08/12/2008CeredigionLiberal DemocratSigned
Dan Rogerson08/12/2008North CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
John Leech08/12/2008Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Truswell08/12/2008PudseyLabourSigned
Mike Hancock08/12/2008Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Flynn08/12/2008Newport WestLabourSigned
Ann Cryer08/12/2008KeighleyLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn08/12/2008Islington NorthLabourSigned
Annette Brooke08/12/2008Mid Dorset and North PooleLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Meale08/12/2008MansfieldLabourSigned
John McDonnell08/12/2008Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Elfyn Llwyd08/12/2008Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Lindsay Hoyle08/12/2008ChorleyLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins08/12/2008Luton NorthLabourSigned
Graham Stringer09/12/2008Manchester, BlackleyLabourSigned
Alistair Carmichael10/12/2008Orkney and ShetlandLiberal DemocratSigned
Martin Caton10/12/2008GowerLabourSigned
Janet Dean10/12/2008BurtonLabourSigned
Jo Swinson10/12/2008East DunbartonshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Dai Davies10/12/2008Blaenau GwentIndependentSigned
Nick Harvey10/12/2008North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
John Pugh11/12/2008SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
Brian Jenkins11/12/2008TamworthLabourSigned
John Battle11/12/2008Leeds WestLabourSigned
Michael Penning11/12/2008Hemel HempsteadConservativeSigned
John Horam15/12/2008OrpingtonConservativeSigned
Rudi Vis15/12/2008Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Frank Cook16/12/2008Stockton NorthLabourSigned
David Crausby16/12/2008Bolton North EastLabourSigned
Bill Etherington16/12/2008Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Tom Brake17/12/2008Carshalton and WallingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Simon Hughes18/12/2008North Southwark and BermondseyLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Burstow18/12/2008Sutton and CheamLiberal DemocratSigned
Ian GibsonUnknownWithdrawn
Michael Jabez FosterUnknownWithdrawn
David WrightUnknownWithdrawn

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