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PARLIAMENTARY EARLY DAY MOTION
CHANNEL 4 TELEVISION PROGRAMME BEIJING SWINGS (2 April 2003)

Motion Details

That this House deplores Channel Four's screening of Beijing Swings, a programme which featured an adult eating part of a dead unborn child; notes with incredulity the justification of the Chairman of Channel Four, Mr Vanni Treves, that the work of Zhu Yu entitled 'Eating People' had artistic merit; notes the further justification that the programme exemplifies the dark message of the season as a whole; and believing that the programme debased human dignity and plumbed new depths of depravity and indecency, calls for the criminal prosecution of those responsible for its transmission.

Sponsored by:
Miss Ann Widdecombe (Conservative)

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Con
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Con
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Lab
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Con
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Lab
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Lab
Harry Cohen
Con
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Lab
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Lab
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Lab
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Con
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Lab
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Lab
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Con
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Con
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Lab
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Con
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Con
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Con
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Con
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Con
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Ind
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Con
Lord Hammond of Runnymede
Ind
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Con
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South Holland and The Deepings
Ind
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Con
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Con
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Spk
Sir Lindsay Hoyle
Chorley
LD
Simon Hughes
Con
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LD
Lord Jones of Cheltenham
Lab
Mrs Jackie Lawrence
Con
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Gainsborough
Con
Sir Julian Lewis
New Forest East
Con
Sir David Lidington
Con
The Marquess of Lothian
Lab
Gordon Marsden
Ind
Mr Paul Marsden
Lab
Mr Robert Marshall-Andrews
Con
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Lab
Mr Kevin McNamara
Con
Mr George Osborne
Con
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Con
Sir Hugh Robertson
Con
Dame Marion Roe
Con
Andrew Rosindell
Romford
LD
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Con
Baroness Shephard of Northwold
Con
Mr Keith Simpson
UUP
The Rev Martin Smyth
Con
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New Forest West
Con
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Lab
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Con
Mr Nigel Waterson
Con
Dame Angela Watkinson
Con
Miss Ann Widdecombe (Sponsor)
Con
Mr David Wilshire
Con
Ann Winterton
Con
Sir Nicholas Winterton

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