British Sign Language Act (EDM1060)

British Sign Language Act

EDM number 1060 in 2016-17, proposed by Dawn Butler on 14/03/2017.
Categorised under the topics of Disability discrimination, Equality and Special educational needs.

That this House welcomes the 14th anniversary of the Government's official recognition of British Sign Language on 18 March 2017; celebrates the culture and heritage of sign language; and calls on the Government to enact a British Sign Language Act in England to give British Sign Language full legal status as is afforded to other officially recognised languages

This motion has been signed by a total of 58 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Dawn Butler	14/03/2017			Proposed
Kate Hollern	14/03/2017	Blackburn	Labour	Seconded
Naseem Shah	14/03/2017	Bradford West	Labour	Seconded
Rupa Huq	14/03/2017	Ealing Central and Acton	Labour	Seconded
Rosie Cooper	14/03/2017	West Lancashire	Labour	Seconded
Tulip Siddiq	14/03/2017	Hampstead and Kilburn	Labour	Seconded
David Lammy	14/03/2017	Tottenham	Labour	Signed
Alison Thewliss	14/03/2017	Glasgow Central	Scottish National Party	Signed
Mark Durkan	14/03/2017	Foyle	Social Democratic and Labour Party	Signed
Jim Cunningham	14/03/2017	Coventry South	Labour	Signed
Peter Bottomley	14/03/2017	Worthing West	Conservative	Signed
Alan Meale	15/03/2017	Mansfield	Labour	Signed
Dennis Skinner	15/03/2017	Bolsover	Labour	Signed
Margaret Ritchie	15/03/2017	South Down	Social Democratic and Labour Party	Signed
Chris Law	15/03/2017	Dundee West	Scottish National Party	Signed
Jim Shannon	15/03/2017	Strangford	DUP	Signed
Gavin Robinson	15/03/2017	Belfast East	DUP	Signed
Keith Vaz	16/03/2017	Leicester East	Labour	Signed
Chris Stephens	16/03/2017	Glasgow South West	Scottish National Party	Signed
Alex Cunningham	16/03/2017	Stockton North	Labour	Signed
Wes Streeting	16/03/2017	Ilford North	Labour	Signed
Kelvin Hopkins	16/03/2017	Luton North	Labour	Signed
Alison McGovern	16/03/2017	Wirral South	Labour	Signed
Angus MacNeil	20/03/2017	Na h-Eileanan an Iar	Scottish National Party	Signed
Hannah Bardell	20/03/2017	Livingston	Scottish National Party	Signed
Neil Gray	20/03/2017	Airdrie and Shotts	Scottish National Party	Signed
Phil Boswell	20/03/2017	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill	Scottish National Party	Signed
Graham Jones	20/03/2017	Hyndburn	Labour	Signed
Roger Mullin	20/03/2017	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath	Scottish National Party	Signed
Alan Brown	20/03/2017	Kilmarnock and Loudoun	Scottish National Party	Signed
David Hanson	20/03/2017	Delyn	Labour	Signed
Alex Salmond	20/03/2017			Signed
Grahame Morris	20/03/2017	Easington	Labour	Signed
Tom Elliott	20/03/2017	Fermanagh and South Tyrone	UUP	Signed
Ruth Smeeth	20/03/2017	Stoke-on-Trent North	Labour	Signed
Danny Kinahan	20/03/2017	South Antrim	UUP	Signed
Marie Rimmer	20/03/2017	St Helens South and Whiston	Labour	Signed
Virendra Sharma	20/03/2017	Ealing, Southall	Labour	Signed
Kate Green	20/03/2017	Stretford and Urmston	Labour	Signed
Stephen Gethins	20/03/2017	North East Fife	Scottish National Party	Signed
George Kerevan	20/03/2017	East Lothian	Scottish National Party	Signed
Caroline Lucas	21/03/2017	Brighton, Pavilion	Green	Signed
Jim Dowd	21/03/2017	Lewisham West and Penge	Labour	Signed
Michael Dugher	21/03/2017	Barnsley East	Labour	Signed
Owen Thompson	22/03/2017	Midlothian	Scottish National Party	Signed
Ronnie Campbell	22/03/2017	Blyth Valley	Labour	Signed
Drew Hendry	22/03/2017	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey	Scottish National Party	Signed
John Nicolson	24/03/2017	East Dunbartonshire	Scottish National Party	Signed
Ann Clwyd	27/03/2017	Cynon Valley	Labour	Signed
Ian Murray	28/03/2017	Edinburgh South	Labour	Signed
Greg Mulholland	28/03/2017	Leeds North West	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Joanna Cherry	29/03/2017	Edinburgh South West	Scottish National Party	Signed
Bill Esterson	29/03/2017	Sefton Central	Labour	Signed
Gavin Newlands	29/03/2017	Paisley and Renfrewshire North	Scottish National Party	Signed
Rachael Maskell	30/03/2017	York Central	Labour/Co-operative	Signed
Colleen Fletcher	30/03/2017	Coventry North East	Labour	Signed
Bob Blackman	30/03/2017	Harrow East	Conservative	Signed
Stephen McCabe	18/04/2017	Birmingham, Selly Oak	Labour	Signed

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