One Million Free Books Campaign (EDM1555)

One Million Free Books Campaign

EDM number 1555 in 2010-12, proposed by Gregory Campbell on 09/03/2011.
Categorised under the topic of Education.

That this House notes the recent events connected with World Book Day; acknowledges that distributing one million free books is to be highly commended; expresses the hope that the ongoing issues associated with literacy problems can be highlighted as a result of this worthwhile initiative; and calls on the relevant Government departments to respond to the project by taking positive steps to increase accessibility to reading, particularly among young people.

This motion has been signed by a total of 24 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Gregory Campbell	09/03/2011	East Londonderry	DUP	Proposed
David Simpson	09/03/2011	Upper Bann	DUP	Seconded
Mark Durkan	09/03/2011	Foyle	Social Democratic and Labour Party	Seconded
Michael Connarty	09/03/2011	Linlithgow and East Falkirk	Labour	Seconded
Stephen Williams	10/03/2011	Bristol West	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Martin Caton	10/03/2011	Gower	Labour	Seconded
Jeremy Corbyn	10/03/2011	Islington North	Labour	Signed
Mike Hancock	10/03/2011	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Mark Williams	14/03/2011	Ceredigion	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Leech	14/03/2011	Manchester, Withington	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Roger Godsiff	14/03/2011	Birmingham, Hall Green	Labour	Signed
Jim Dobbin	14/03/2011	Heywood and Middleton	Labour	Signed
John Pugh	14/03/2011	Southport	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Lady Hermon	15/03/2011	North Down	Independent	Signed
William McCrea	15/03/2011	South Antrim	DUP	Signed
Alan Meale	15/03/2011	Mansfield	Labour	Signed
Keith Vaz	15/03/2011	Leicester East	Labour	Signed
Jeffrey M Donaldson	16/03/2011	Lagan Valley	DUP	Signed
Steve Rotheram	16/03/2011	Liverpool, Walton	Labour	Signed
Nicholas Dakin	16/03/2011	Scunthorpe	Labour	Signed
Alasdair McDonnell	17/03/2011	Belfast South	Social Democratic and Labour Party	Signed
Lindsay Roy	22/03/2011	Glenrothes	Labour	Signed
David Crausby	30/03/2011	Bolton North East	Labour	Signed
Nigel Dodds	31/03/2011	Belfast North	DUP	Signed

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