Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 319open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2003
That this House recognises the importance of the construction industry in delivering new and improved public buildings and infrastructure; welcomes the Construction Products Association's recent report, Achievable Targets, as a useful and timely review of the Government's targets and its progress towards delivering new and refurbished hospitals, schools, housing, roads and railways; notes that both the public and industry recognise the importance of ongoing investment in our public buildings and infrastructure; and therefore urges the Government to ensure delivery of its targets in these crucial areas.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 298open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2003
Line 4, after 'Holocaust', insert ', the Armenian genocide.'
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 29open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 December 2000
That this House welcomes the opening of the Male Cancer Research Centre at the Institute of Cancer Research, Europe's first centre for research into the causes and prevention of male cancers, especially prostate cancer; notes that prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in men and is responsible for 9,500 deaths each year; further notes that the disease is often regarded as a matter of embarrassment and silence, and that more research is urgently needed into both its causes and prevention; and calls upon the Government to increase public awareness of the benefits of early diagnosis, and to increase further financial support for research into male cancers.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 28open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 December 2000
That this House congratulates Reading Borough Council, the Arts Council of England and the Governor of Reading Gaol, on the centenary of the death of Oscar Wilde, on their collaboration in commissioning a work by the artists Bruce Williams and Paul Muldoon at the foot of the wall of Reading Gaol as a fitting memorial to the beautiful genius Oscar Wilde; and calls upon the Government to continue to work to promote tolerance and inclusiveness in the new century.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 27open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 December 2000
That this House congratulates the Evening Standard for its work in exposing the slave trade in women smuggled illegally into this country and then forced into prostitution; notes the conclusion of the Police and Reducing Crime Report, 'For Love or Money', that turning a blind eye to premises being used for commercial sex could lead to more women becoming sex slaves and that massage parlours and brothels should be licensed by councils to stop them being taken over by criminal gangs; and calls upon the Government to introduce licensed brothels and massage parlours as soon as possible, allowing the police to crack down on unlicensed operators and combat the street sex trade, frequently run by pimps who have criminal records.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 1201open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 November 2000
That this House welcomes the opening of the Male Cancer Research Centre at the Institute of Cancer Research, Europe's first centre for research into the causes and prevention of male cancers, especially prostate cancer; notes that prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in men and is responsible for 9,500 deaths each year, further notes that the disease is often regarded as a matter of embarrassment and silence, and that more research is urgently needed into both its causes and prevention; and calls upon the Government to increase public awareness of the benefits of early diagnosis, and to increase further the financial support for research into male cancers.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 1200open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 November 2000
That this House congratulates Reading Borough Council, the Arts Council of England and the Governor of Reading Gaol, on the centenary of the death of Oscar Wilde, on their collaboration in commissioning a work by the artists Bruce Williams and Paul Muldoon at the foot of the wall of Reading Gaol as a fitting memorial to the beautiful genius Oscar Wilde; and calls upon the Government to continue to work to promote tolerance and inclusiveness in the new century.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 1024open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 25 July 2000
That this House congratulates the participants in the recent Scholars Conference on the Holocaust on their statement affirming that 'the Armenian genocide is an incontestable historical fact' and urging western democratic governments to recognise it as such; and therefore urges the Government to take the lead internationally by recognising the 1915 Armenian massacre as genocide, both in the interests of historical accuracy and as an impetus to democracy in Turkey.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 941open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 July 2000
That this House congratulates the Security Council of the United Nations on introducing a ban on the illicit import of rough diamonds from Sierre Leone; congratulates Foreign Office Ministers on their role in securing the ban; calls upon those involved in the diamond trade to work to ensure this ban is not flouted; and calls upon the United Nations to take swift action against any country found by the panel of experts formed by the Secretary-General to be trading in blood diamonds in contravention of the ban.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 912open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 29 June 2000
That this House notes that current arrangements for water metering provide no short or medium term arrangements to ensure fair water charging and that arrangements for metering significantly disadvantage poorer households; and recommends that the Government put in place fair and progressive machinery for charging for water, including measures that allow water companies to link tariffs for water to council tax bands.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 803open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 June 2000
That this House welcomes the return of first class rugby to Reading; and hopes London Irish have a successful time at the Madjeski Stadium next season.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 619open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 April 2000
That this House welcomes the Home Office's clarification that applications for city status from a number of English towns are still being actively considered; and believes that Reading, which has been a settlement on the confluence of the rivers Thames and Kennet at least since Saxon times, which has the great Reading Abbey, where Parliament has sat and where both King Henry I and the hand of St.James are buried, where musical notation was invented by the monks of the Abbey, where one of the great battles of the English Civil War was fought at the Forbury Mound, whose stature has grown over the centuries and whose prosperity gave rise to the building of the Waterhouse Town Hall, which is noted for its fine patterned brickwork and for its pre-eminence in the 'three Bs' industries of beer, biscuits and bulbs, which is the site for the first iron-framed building in Europe at Caversham Park, now the home of BBC Monitoring, whose first-class transport links and location at the heart of the Thames Valley have continued to attract cutting-edge companies such as Microsoft, Prudential, J.D. Edwards and others in the IT, financial services and high-quality manufacturing industries, which is noted in the arts for its associations with Jane Austen, Alma Cogan, Marianne Faithfull and especially its least willing inhabitant Oscar Wilde and as the crucible for Britain's finest acting talent as the hometown of both Kenneth Branagh and Kate Winslet, and also as the home of the WOMAD and Reading music festivals, and which is home to one of the United Kingdom's premier universities and to the South of England's supreme shopping and leisure experience at the Oracle Centre, presents a compelling case for the award of city status.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 545open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 March 2000
That this House calls for urgent action to be taken to halt the serious problem of bootlegging of alcohol and tobacco, which is putting many independent retailers out of business, with average losses of around 16 per cent. a year; notes that bootlegging has serious health and social costs which arise from minors having unregulated access to alcohol and tobacco; and calls on all members of the European Union to take urgent steps to halt this illegal and harmful trade.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 338open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 1 February 2000
That this House congratulates scientists working for the Institute of Cancer Research, Cancer Research Campaign and the Imperial Cancer Research Fund on their success in locating a gene which increases a man's risk of testicular cancer by up to 50 times following a 10-year fight to discover the secrets of a form of cancer that is the most common in men aged 15 to 40 years, affecting 1,400 men in the United Kingdom every year and that has seen an 80 per cent. increase in the disease between the early 1970s and early 1990s; and urges men from families with an incidence of more than one case of testicular cancer to volunteer to take part in research to locate other inherited testicular cancer genes.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 300open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 January 2000
That this House is disappointed at the appalling behaviour of a small number of honourable Members of Her Majesty's Opposition who manipulated the procedures of this House to prevent the Fur Farming (Prohibition) Bill from being taken, in defiance of overwhelming public opinion that wishes to see an end to this barbaric practice; and calls upon the Government to review the procedures of this House to allow genuine scrutiny and debate whilst ending opportunities for time wasting.