Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 771open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 May 2000
after 'environment;', insert 'contrasts this with the fact that not a penny of public money has been forthcoming for JC2000, the largest arts festival for schools ever staged in the UK in which over 18,000 schools serving more than six million pupils have been given the chance to learn the true meaning of the Millennium;'.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 230open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 April 2000
after 'divides' insert 'also believes that the participation of over 18,000 schools in JC 2000, the Millennium Arts Festival for Schools and its creation of over 1,000 local and 12 regional and national schowcases for pupils' work of very high quality leading to the UK Festival at the Royal Albert Hall on June 23rd, reinforces this message;'
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 388open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 February 2000
That this House notes with grave concern that the UK-based Weir Pumps Ltd and other European companies have built and continue to invest in the recently completed oil installations and an oil pipeline in Sudan, running for 1,600 km from Bentiu, Upper West Nile to Port Sudan on the Red Sea, with exports since 30th August 1999 of 150,000 barrels a day and estimated potential revenue of $200 million to $500 million a year; notes that this development threatens to perpetuate the Sudanese war and undermine the fragile peace process; notes the evidence that this exacerbates human rights violations and further frustrates any efforts for long-term development; believes that as a military target the pipeline and installations pose a serious environmental threat to the country; calls on Her Majesty's Government to refuse any export licences to Sudan, to encourage the international community to put pressure on the warring parties in order that they extend and monitor the cease-fire in all regions, in particular around the oil fields, and to make representations to the international community calling on it to cease the extraction of oil in Sudan until a peaceful resolution to the conflict has been reached.