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Cross-Tamar Devonwall Constituency

EDM number 487 in 2016-17, proposed by Jonathan Edwards on 10/10/2016.
Categorised under the topics of Electoral register and Parliament.

That this House notes that the Boundary Commission for England's Review of Parliamentary Constituencies has recommended the creation of a cross-Tamar Devonwall seat which would link parts of Cornwall with land in the neighbouring English county of Devon; recalls that the Boundary Commission has made this recommendation because the review is being guided by the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act (the Act), which was agreed in 2011 and did not recognise Cornwall as a distinct political unit; further notes that in 2014 the Government recognised the Cornish as a national minority through the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and announced that, The decision to recognise the unique identity of the Cornish, now affords them the same status... as the UK's other Celtic people, the Scots, the Welsh and the Irish; believes that the Act and the creation of a Devonwall seat are in conflict with the Framework Convention; and therefore calls for an amendment to the Act so that future parliamentary constituencies for Cornwall lie entirely within the historic boundaries of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

This motion has been signed by a total of 20 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Brendan O'Hara05/01/2016Argyll and ButeScottish National PartySigned
Jonathan Edwards10/10/2016Carmarthen East and DinefwrPlaid CymruProposed
Martyn Day11/10/2016Linlithgow and East FalkirkScottish National PartySeconded
Martin Docherty12/10/2016West DunbartonshireScottish National PartySeconded
Mark Williams13/10/2016CeredigionLiberal DemocratSeconded
Greg Mulholland13/10/2016Leeds North WestLiberal DemocratSeconded
Tom Brake13/10/2016Carshalton and WallingtonLiberal DemocratSeconded
John McNally17/10/2016FalkirkScottish National PartySigned
Richard Arkless17/10/2016Dumfries and GallowayScottish National PartySigned
Liz Saville Roberts17/10/2016Dwyfor MeirionnyddPlaid CymruSigned
Ian Blackford17/10/2016Ross, Skye and LochaberScottish National PartySigned
Alistair Carmichael18/10/2016Orkney and ShetlandLiberal DemocratSigned
Chris Law18/10/2016Dundee WestScottish National PartySigned
Drew Hendry01/11/2016Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and StrathspeyScottish National PartySigned
Alan Brown01/11/2016Kilmarnock and LoudounScottish National PartySigned
Steven Paterson01/11/2016StirlingScottish National PartySigned
Michael Weir01/11/2016AngusScottish National PartySigned
Tommy Sheppard01/11/2016Edinburgh EastScottish National PartySigned
Eilidh Whiteford14/11/2016Banff and BuchanScottish National PartySigned
Alasdair McDonnell16/11/2016Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned

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