Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 722open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 December 2017
That this House believes that the acceptance of a new job with Chinese interests by the previous Prime Minister David Cameron exposes parliamentarians to accusations of promoting their own financial interests in office in order to benefit from them later with lucrative jobs; recalls that David Cameron resisted all pleas to reform the abuses of revolving door that allows former hon. Members to prosper on the basis of insider knowledge unhindered by the impotent watchdog of the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments; and further recalls that the former Prime Minister supported the Chinese-British Hinkley Point project that been condemned as a potential financial calamity by the National Audit Office and the Public Accounts Committee.
Bill· Private Members' Bill (under the Ten Minute Rule)Bill 2161open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 October 2017
A Bill to allow the production, supply, possession and use of cannabis and cannabis resin for medicinal purposes; and for connected purposes.
Bill· Private Members' Bill (Presentation Bill)Bill 1947open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 January 2017
A Bill to enable persons in England to withhold consent for organ donation and transplantation; and for connected purposes.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 644open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2014
That this House congratulates Raúl Castro and Barack Obama for formalising relations between their two countries; and looks forward to many future benefits if the US trade embargo is lifted.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 645open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 December 2014
That this House applauds the film masterpiece Pride as an authentic, moving, witty, rumbustious story of how two bullied tribes were tormented into a touching triumphant solidarity.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 633open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2014
That this House believes that asylum seekers should be homed widely in the country to assist community assimilation and to share fairly the strains and burdens on services that newcomers create; is astonished that Cardiff has 976 section 95 migrants, double the total in all of South East England outside of London and that Newport has 391, while the constituency of the Home Secretary has one and those of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Prime Minister have none; and calls on hon. Members to encourage their areas to accept their responsibilities and welcome at least the average total of migrants homed elsewhere.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 887open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2013
That this House commends the judgement of City analysts Liberum Capital who say that the Hinkley Point nuclear power station deal is economically insane offering a price for electricity at double the going rate, index linked and guaranteed for 35 years; agrees with the head of Ineos, Jim Ratcliffe, that the price of £95 per megawatt hour agreed with Électricité de France is a rip-off especially when the company simultaneously agreed a price of £38 for French customers; is alarmed that future British industry and domestic users will be forced to buy some of the most expensive electricity in the world, adding to the burdens of domestic bills and putting industry at a competitive disadvantage; and calls for a full disclosure of the deal and parliamentary debate.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 874open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 December 2012
That this House is concerned that the disgraced General Petraeus, when he was the top US commander in Afghanistan, allowed lobbyists Frederick and Kimberly Kagan unique access to secret information and private meetings; notes that the Kagans used these privileges to advocate substantive changes in the US war plan, including a harder-edged approach that intensified war activity; is alarmed at reports that they repeatedly campaigned against peace initiatives; concludes that the Kagans' activity served the commercial interests of their defence contractors' paymasters; and believes their lobbying added to NATO and Afghan casualties killed in avoidable conflicts fomented in the commercial interest of US defence companies.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 873open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 19 December 2012
That this House congratulates the Charity Commission for denying charitable status to the Exclusive Brethren sect; notes the sect's doctrine of separation which has divided families and excludes Brethren from society to the extent that members refuse to live in semi-detached houses for fear of contamination from non-Brethren; and is appalled by the definition of their faith expressed by their leader Bruce Hales that the whole principles of the world have to be scorned, disdained and hated and that members of the sect have to develop an utter hatred of every feature of the world to avoid being sucked in and seduced by it.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 847open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2012
That this House is alarmed at attempts by the Government to politicise the Civil Service; notes that the Prime Minister personally overruled the appointment of David Kennedy, Chief Executive of the Committee on Climate Change, who had been selected as the new permanent secretary of the Department for Energy and Climate Change; is surprised at the claim of the Minister for the Cabinet Office that some top civil servants have deliberately obstructed plans that Ministers want to be implemented; recalls that many past failing governments, in mid-term, blamed civil servants for government ineptitude; and asserts the prime need for the independence of the Civil Service to provide stability and moderation in government.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 1223open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 December 2010
That this House regrets that the national debate on drugs is trivialised and bedevilled by postures of party political advantage; believes that all parties accept that most Government policies since 1971 have failed to halt increased use of controlled drugs and perversely led to increasing drug deaths and crime; and calls on all parties to build on their shared views in order to introduce a united practical agreement on fresh strategies based on the evidence of successes achieved by other countries.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 8open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 December 2000
That this House congratulates the Young European Movement for its EU enlargement campaign which aims to elevate interest in and debate about the enlargement of the European Union amongst young people; regrets that the former communist countries of Eastern Europe remain outside the EU; and calls for enlargement to be adopted as a prime priority.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 13open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 December 2000
That this House notes that all measures of public opinion in Wales have proved that the overwhelming majority wish St.David's Day to be made a public holiday; and calls for an early declaration of 1st March as a holiday in Wales.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 12open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 December 2000
That this House recognises that the cannabis battle in the war against drugs is being lost; that cannabis is neither more damaging than tobacco, nor more addictive than alcohol, and that it is no more the portal to harder drugs than a half of bitter to rampant alcoholism; considers that the war against hard drugs can be more effectively fought if they are decoupled from cannabis which has therapeutic value so that juries are already rejecting prosecutions of MS sufferers for cannabis use or possession, though young lives and careers are still being damaged by prosecutions when the existing law looks less relevant to what is happening in society, because penalties against cannabis produce more harm than they prevent while the cost in police time, court and police effort and prison sentences, estimated at ú790 million, despite the fact that in 1998 of the 97,000 persons dealt with for drug offences related to cannabis, half were cautioned (compared to a third 10 years before); therefore agrees with the Police Foundation Inquiry that cannabis should become a Class C drug decoupled from hard drugs; further considers that it is now time to decriminalise possession and cultivation while retaining penalties for trafficking only against importation from outside the United Kingdom; suggests that licensing of cultivation and consumption in cafes should become a local government responsibility, opening up the possibility of local revenues from licences for local production or supply.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 11open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 December 2000
That this House is alarmed at the increasing prison population and urges reforms to reduce severe problems suffered by young offenders and women prisoner; calls for the establishment of a new category of women offenders with babies who are not a risk to public safety; and further believes that women who have been sentenced to custody should be allowed a period of two weeks prior to beginning their sentences in order for them to make arrangements for this dependent children.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 10open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 December 2000
That this House applauds the work of POST; and looks forward to the increasing influence of its reports on rational, science-based legislation.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 9open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 December 2000
That this House regrets that the present Government will suffer the fate of all other recent governments by ending their term of office with illegal drug use at a higher level than when they were elected; urges front bench spokespeople of all parties to stop misrepresenting drug reforms in the Netherlands; and notes that 30 years of harsh drug penalties in the UK have increase drug use and deaths while 25 years of regulated decriminalisation in the Netherlands has reduced all drug use and deaths.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 7open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 December 2000
That this House notes the European Safety Council's claim that 2,000 lives could be saved annually and 18,000 serious injuries avoided by more 'pedestrian friendly' car fronts; and urges the Government to renew their efforts to ban the macho fashion accessories of bull bars that concentrate and multiply the force of collisions at the level of a child's head and vital organs.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 6open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 December 2000
That this House is alarmed by the increasing evidence of the abuse of the elderly in residential homes; calls for improved independent survillance on instances of physical abuse, neglect and the over-prescription of neuroleptic drugs; and recognises the great value of the campaign by Age Concern to expose the large scale abuse of the defenceless elderly.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 5open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 December 2000
That this House congratulates the Financial Services Authority for imposing a time and compensation requirement of ú52 million on the Royal Scottish Assurance for mis-selling endowment mortgages; and looks forward to further fines and the punishment of directors and salespersons of companies who have acted improperly and impoverished millions of people by mis-selling pensions, mortgages and general insurance policies.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 4open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 December 2000
That this House recognises the danger posed by the proliferation of ballistic missiles; believes that there are a number of policy instruments for dealing with these concerns other than a National Missile Defence, including diplomatic persuasion, arms control deterrence and other defensive measures; endorses the Government's commitment to preserve and strengthen the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty; urges the governments of the United States and Russia not to abrogate or withdraw unilaterally from the ABMT; and calls on Her Majesty's Government not to make any decisions regarding co-operation with National Missile Defence that would undermine strategic stability.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 2open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 December 2000
That this House congratulates the Government on the April 2001 pension uprating which, for the first time in over 25 years, will exceed the percentage increases in both prices and average earnings; welcomes the changes proposed in the minimum income guarantee to ensure that all pensioners benefit from the pension increase; notes the Government Actuary's advice that despite the proposed cuts in employers' contributions, the balance in the National Insurance Fund will be sufficient to pay for pension increases in line with earnings until 2007; and urges the Government to restore the link with earnings so that the basic pension will remain a dependable foundation on which people of all ages can build for their retirement.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 1154open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 15 November 2000
That this House congratulates HealthProm on their Safe Motherhood Programme in Azerbaijan; notes the recent doubling of the already high mother and infant mortality rates; welcomes this practical attainable programme for reform which has been generously supported by Glaxo Wellcome; and urges other companies doing business in Azerbaijan and other new democracies to dedicate some of their profits to health and welfare programmes.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 1083open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 October 2000
That this House urges the Secretary of State for Social Security to lay before the House as soon as he receives it the report on the cost of restoring the link between the basic pension and average earnings, prepared by the Government Actuary under section 36 of the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000, so that it can be taken into account by honourable Members in considering the Government's proposals for increasing the pension in 2001.
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