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PARLIAMENTARY EARLY DAY MOTION
ONE SEAT CAMPAIGN (18 June 2006)

Motion Details

That this House notes that the European Parliament is based primarily in Brussels and that MEPs, their staff and paperwork are all based there; further notes that in accordance with the Amsterdam Treaty, for four days every month the entire operation is uprooted and moved 260 miles away to Strasbourg; regrets that this process involves charter planes carrying MEPs, officials and staff and also fleets of lorries carrying paperwork between Belgium and France; further notes the One Seat campaign which aims to collect one million signatures to its online petition in favour of establishing Brussels as the single seat of the European Parliament; and believes that it is time to end the wasteful and inefficient practice of maintaining two locations for the European Parliament which currently costs taxpayers £120 million every year.

Sponsored by:
Lord Brady of Altrincham (Conservative)

EDMS Sponsor By Party

Party
Votes
%
 
Conservative
46
48%
 
 
Labour
21
22%
 
 
Liberal Democrat
13
14%
 
 
Independent
5
5%
 
 
Democratic Unionist Party
3
3%
 
 
Speaker
2
2%
 
 
Plaid Cymru
2
2%
 
 
Your Party
1
1%
 
 
Reform UK
1
1%
 
 
Not Available
1
1%
 
Sponsor List (95 sponsors)
Party
Member
Constituency
Con
Sir David Amess
Lab
Mr David Anderson
Spk
John Bercow
Con
Mr Brian Binley
Lab
Mr David S. Borrow
Con
Sir Peter Bottomley
Con
Lord Brady of Altrincham (Sponsor)
LD
Tom Brake
Con
Sir Julian Brazier
Con
James Brokenshire
LD
Mr Jeremy Browne
Con
Sir Simon Burns
Con
Mr David Burrowes
LD
Sir Vince Cable
DUP
Mr Gregory Campbell
East Londonderry
Lab
Martin Caton
Con
Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
North Cotswolds
Derek Conway
YP
Jeremy Corbyn
Islington North
Lab
Sir David Crausby
Lab
Mrs Ann Cryer
Con
David T C Davies
Con
Sir Philip Davies
Lab
Mr Andrew Dismore
DUP
Lord Dodds of Duncairn
Lab
Dr David Drew
Con
Sir James Duddridge
Lab
Bill Etherington
Con
Mr Nigel Evans
Con
Michael Fabricant
Con
Christopher Fraser
Ind
Mr David Gauke
LD
Andrew George
St Ives
Con
Dame Cheryl Gillan
Con
Sir Robert Goodwill
Con
Michael Gove
Con
Stephen Hammond
Con
Greg Hands
Con
Mr Mark Harper
Con
Sir Oliver Heald
LD
John Hemming
Con
Adam Holloway
LD
Paul Holmes
Ind
Kelvin Hopkins
Spk
Sir Lindsay Hoyle
Chorley
LD
Mark Hunter
Lab
Dr Brian Iddon
Lab
Glenda Jackson
Lab
Mr Brian Jenkins
Lab
Lynne Jones
Con
Mr David Jones
Con
Daniel Kawczynski
Con
Baroness Laing of Elderslie
LD
Mr John Leech
Con
Sir Edward Leigh
Gainsborough
Con
Sir Julian Lewis
New Forest East
PC
Mr Elfyn Llwyd
Con
Tim Loughton
Con
Mr Andrew Mackay
Lab
Rob Marris
Lab
John McDonnell
Hayes and Harlington
Ind
Patrick Mercer
Ind
Anne Milton
Con
Mr Malcolm Moss
Con
David Mundell
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
Con
Dr Andrew Murrison
South West Wiltshire
Con
Mr Stephen O'Brien
Con
Sir Mike Penning
Con
John Penrose
Lab
Mr Greg Pope
PC
Adam Price
Con
Mark Pritchard
The Wrekin
RUK
Andrew Rosindell
Romford
LD
Paul Rowen
Lab
Martin Salter
Con
Mr Lee Scott
Con
Andrew Selous
Lab
Alan Simpson
DUP
David Simpson
Ind
Bob Spink
Lab
Graham Stringer
Blackley and Middleton South
LD
Sarah Teather
Con
Sir Peter Viggers
Con
Theresa Villiers
Lab
Dr Rudi Vis
Con
Mr Ben Wallace
Con
Dame Angela Watkinson
Con
Sir Bill Wiggin
Lab
Mrs Betty Williams
LD
Roger Williams
LD
Stephen Williams
Con
Ann Winterton
Con
Sir Nicholas Winterton
Lab
Derek Wyatt
LD
Richard Younger-Ross

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