Victor Akinbile (EDM580)

Victor Akinbile

EDM number 580 in 2014-15, proposed by Keith Vaz on 28/11/2014.
Categorised under the topics of Employment, Ethnic groups and House of Commons.

That this House applauds the Serjeant at Arms on his appointment of Victor Akinbile, the first ethnic minority representative from the office of the Serjeant at Arms to sit in the House of Commons chamber in parliamentary history; and supports further measures to increase diversity in House of Commons staff, whilst continuing to hire on merit, to reflect the multiculturalism of the UK.

This motion has been signed by a total of 22 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Keith Vaz	28/11/2014	Leicester East	Labour	Proposed
Mike Hancock	01/12/2014	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Jim Shannon	01/12/2014	Strangford	DUP	Seconded
John McDonnell	01/12/2014	Hayes and Harlington	Labour	Seconded
Paul Flynn	02/12/2014	Newport West	Labour	Seconded
David Anderson	02/12/2014	Blaydon	Labour	Seconded
William McCrea	02/12/2014	South Antrim	DUP	Signed
Martin Caton	02/12/2014	Gower	Labour	Signed
Jeremy Corbyn	02/12/2014	Islington North	Labour	Signed
Lady Hermon	03/12/2014	North Down	Independent	Signed
Virendra Sharma	03/12/2014	Ealing, Southall	Labour	Signed
Kelvin Hopkins	03/12/2014	Luton North	Labour	Signed
Nigel Dodds	03/12/2014	Belfast North	DUP	Signed
Diane Abbott	03/12/2014	Hackney North and Stoke Newington	Labour	Signed
David Ward	04/12/2014	Bradford East	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Steve Rotheram	04/12/2014	Liverpool, Walton	Labour	Signed
Mary Glindon	04/12/2014	North Tyneside	Labour	Signed
David Crausby	08/12/2014	Bolton North East	Labour	Signed
John Leech	09/12/2014	Manchester, Withington	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Roger Godsiff	15/12/2014	Birmingham, Hall Green	Labour	Signed
Gregory Campbell	07/01/2015	East Londonderry	DUP	Signed
George Galloway	11/02/2015	Bradford West	Respect	Signed

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