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UK Textile Industry

EDM number 582 in 2014-15, proposed by Barry Sheerman on 01/12/2014.
Categorised under the topic of Manufacturing industries.

That this House applauds the innovation and creativity of the UK's modern textile industry; congratulates the entrepreneurial leadership and hard-working skilled professionals that make the industry so successful; notes the great contribution that the industry makes to the UK's national wealth and export success; and calls on the Government to offer more assistance to the industry, in particular by offering more support for exports and by addressing the skills gap.

This motion has been signed by a total of 26 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Barry Sheerman01/12/2014HuddersfieldLabourProposed
Andrew George01/12/2014St IvesLiberal DemocratSeconded
Peter Bottomley01/12/2014Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Mike Hancock01/12/2014Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSeconded
Bob Russell01/12/2014ColchesterLiberal DemocratSeconded
David Simpson02/12/2014Upper BannDUPSeconded
Graham Stringer02/12/2014Blackley and BroughtonLabourSigned
Liz McInnes02/12/2014Heywood and MiddletonLabourSigned
Jim Shannon02/12/2014StrangfordDUPSigned
Alan Meale02/12/2014MansfieldLabourSigned
Lady Hermon03/12/2014North DownIndependentSigned
Virendra Sharma03/12/2014Ealing, SouthallLabourSigned
Austin Mitchell03/12/2014Great GrimsbyLabourSigned
Ronnie Campbell03/12/2014Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Nigel Dodds03/12/2014Belfast NorthDUPSigned
Michael Weir03/12/2014AngusScottish National PartySigned
David Ward03/12/2014Bradford EastLiberal DemocratSigned
Mark Hunter04/12/2014CheadleLiberal DemocratSigned
Mary Glindon04/12/2014North TynesideLabourSigned
Jim McGovern05/12/2014Dundee WestLabourSigned
John Leech09/12/2014Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
William McCrea10/12/2014South AntrimDUPSigned
Ian Swales10/12/2014RedcarLiberal DemocratSigned
Valerie Vaz15/12/2014Walsall SouthLabourSigned
Roger Godsiff15/12/2014Birmingham, Hall GreenLabourSigned
Gregory Campbell06/01/2015East LondonderryDUPSigned

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