PARLIAMENTARY EARLY DAY MOTION
CONDUCT OF THE HONOURABLE MEMBER FOR HARTLEPOOL (30 October 1997)
Motion Details
That this House notes the recent admission by the Minister without Portfolio, that he was active in the Young Communist League when MI5 opened a file on him in the early 1970s; regards as unacceptable his excuse that this amounted to the holding of ordinary left-wing views; deplores his reported demand that MI5 files on Cold War subversives should be destroyed; and urges the Director-General of the Security Service to resist partisan and self-serving political pressure from the Minister without Portfolio.
Sponsored by:
Sir Julian Lewis (Conservative)
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Party
Votes
%
Conservative
25
86%
Not Available
1
3%
Independent
1
3%
Speaker
1
3%
Non-affiliated
1
3%
Sponsor List (29 sponsors)
Party
Member
Constituency
Spk
John Bercow
Con
Sir Peter Bottomley
Con
Lord Brady of Altrincham
Con
Mr Ian Bruce
Con
Sir William Cash
Con
Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
North Cotswolds
Con
Mr Tim Collins
Con
Mr Nigel Evans
Con
Lord Flight
Con
Mr Christopher Gill
Con
Mrs Teresa Gorman
Con
James Gray
Ind
Mr Dominic Grieve
Con
Sir John Hayes
South Holland and The Deepings
Con
Lord Lansley
Con
Sir Edward Leigh
Gainsborough
Con
Sir Julian Lewis (Sponsor)
New Forest East
Con
Tim Loughton
Con
Mr Owen Paterson
Con
Lord Pickles
Lord Prior of Brampton
Con
Mr Laurence Robertson
Con
Mr David Ruffley
Con
Mr Keith Simpson
Con
Sir Desmond Swayne
New Forest West
Con
Sir Robert Syms
Con
Mr John Townend
Mr Charles Wardle
Con
Mr Bowen Wells
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