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PARLIAMENTARY EARLY DAY MOTION
SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE MODERNISATION OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS (14 December 1998)

Motion Details

That this House is concerned that the role of Parliament in the life of the nation had diminished in the past eighteen months and that the proposals in the latest report of the Select Committee on the Modernisation of the House of Commons do nothing to identify further measures to enable the House to hold the Government more effectively to account; presses the Committee to identify measures to do this in its future programme of work; and to this end urges the House not to endorce a recommendation to hold Questions on a Thursday at any time other than at 2.30 p.m.

Sponsored by:
Sir Nicholas Winterton (Conservative)

EDMS Sponsor By Party

Party
Votes
%
 
Conservative
48
91%
 
 
Not Available
1
2%
 
 
Speaker
1
2%
 
 
Non-affiliated
1
2%
 
 
Ulster Unionist Party
1
2%
 
 
Labour
1
2%
 
Sponsor List (53 sponsors)
Party
Member
Constituency
Con
Mr Peter Atkinson
Spk
John Bercow
Con
Sir John Butterfill
Con
Sir William Cash
Con
Sir Sydney Chapman
Con
Alan Clark
Con
Dr Michael Clark
Con
Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
North Cotswolds
Con
Michael Colvin
Lab
Lord Davies of Stamford
Con
David Davis
Goole and Pocklington
Con
Sir Alan Duncan
Con
Sir Peter Emery
Con
Mr Nigel Evans
Con
Michael Fabricant
Con
Lord Flight
Con
Mr Christopher Gill
Con
James Gray
Con
Mr John Greenway
Con
Lord Hamilton of Epsom
Con
Lord Hammond of Runnymede
Con
Mr Nick Hawkins
Con
Sir Gerald Howarth
Con
Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith
Con
Robert Key
Con
Mrs Jacqui Lait
Con
Sir Julian Lewis
New Forest East
Con
Tim Loughton
Con
Mr Humfrey Malins
Con
Mr Michael Mates
Con
Lord Mawhinney
Con
Baroness McIntosh of Pickering
Con
Mr Owen Paterson
Lord Prior of Brampton
Con
Lord Randall of Uxbridge
Con
Mr Laurence Robertson
Con
Dame Marion Roe
UUP
Mr William Ross
Con
Mr Andrew Rowe
Con
Sir Richard Shepherd
Con
Lord Spicer
Con
Mr Nick St Aubyn
Con
Sir Desmond Swayne
New Forest West
Con
Sir Peter Tapsell
Con
Mr John Townend
Con
David Tredinnick
Con
Sir Peter Viggers
Mr Charles Wardle
Con
Mr Bowen Wells
Con
Sir Ray Whitney
Con
Mr John Wilkinson
Con
Ann Winterton
Con
Sir Nicholas Winterton (Sponsor)

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