Aid To Yemen (EDM1539)

Aid To Yemen

EDM number 1539 in 2010-12, proposed by Keith Vaz on 07/03/2011.
Categorised under the topics of International development, International politics and government and Middle East.

That this House welcomes the announcement by the Secretary of State for International Development, that the Government will increase aid to Yemen from 46.7 million to 76 million a year until 2015; notes that Yemen is the poorest nation in the Middle East; further notes that the Yemeni government is combating the growth of al-Qaeda within the country at a time of mass unrest in the Arab world; calls on the Government to continue to develop bilateral relations with Yemen to strengthen its fragile state; and urges the Government to work with the Yemeni government to develop an action plan for improving the economic situation in Yemen and combating terrorism.

This motion has been signed by a total of 18 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Keith Vaz	08/03/2011	Leicester East	Labour	Proposed
Martin Caton	08/03/2011	Gower	Labour	Seconded
Jim Shannon	08/03/2011	Strangford	DUP	Seconded
Alan Meale	08/03/2011	Mansfield	Labour	Seconded
Peter Bottomley	08/03/2011	Worthing West	Conservative	Seconded
Andrew George	08/03/2011	St Ives	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Sandra Osborne	09/03/2011	Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock	Labour	Signed
Ronnie Campbell	09/03/2011	Blyth Valley	Labour	Signed
John Leech	09/03/2011	Manchester, Withington	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Mike Hancock	10/03/2011	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Andrew Stephenson	10/03/2011	Pendle	Conservative	Signed
Marsha Singh	14/03/2011	Bradford West	Labour	Signed
Michael Connarty	14/03/2011	Linlithgow and East Falkirk	Labour	Signed
William McCrea	15/03/2011	South Antrim	DUP	Signed
Lindsay Roy	16/03/2011	Glenrothes	Labour	Signed
Alasdair McDonnell	17/03/2011	Belfast South	Social Democratic and Labour Party	Signed
David Crausby	30/03/2011	Bolton North East	Labour	Signed
Mark Williams	01/04/2011	Ceredigion	Liberal Democrat	Signed

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