Early Day Motions

60th ANNIVERSARY OF D-DAY

That this House notes that 6th June 2004 will mark the 60th anniversary of the Normandy landings; recognises the sacrifice made by thousands of service personnel on this day and throughout the Second World War; congratulates the Government on issuing free passports for those veterans wishing to trav

GM FREE CO-OP

That this House congratulates the Co-op on its decision to remove all genetically modified products and ingredients from goods on sale in its stores; recognises that this is in line with consumer desires to avoid GM food, farmers' desires not to grow it, insurers' refusal to cover it and sciences' r

PROPOSED NEW AIRPORT AT CLIFFE

That this House believes that the proposal for a new airport at Cliffe in north Kent would be one of the most environmentally damaging infrastructure developments ever seen in the United Kingdom; notes that it would destroy sites designated as special protection area, Ramsar site, special area of co

EURO REFERENDUM BILL

Line 1, leave out from 'House' to end and add 'welcomes the statement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on 9th June which strengthened the Government's commitment to and support for joining the euro and showing the real benefits to Britain of membership of the single currency; deplores the dogmatic

SCHOOL MEALS PROVISION

Line 1, leave out 'obesity' and insert 'excessive weight gain.'

SCHOOL MEALS PROVISION

Line 6, after 'meals' insert 'and snack food and drinks.'

R.J. MITCHELL SCHOOL

Line 1, leave out from 'notes' to 'close' in line 2 and insert 'the popularity of.'

R.J. MITCHELL SCHOOL

Line 2, leave out from 'School' to end and add 'further notes that the London Borough of Havering is forced to act on government regulations that require local education authorities to reduce the number of school places, where spare capacity exceeds either ten per cent overall or twenty five per cen

GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS

That this House congratulates the Government on commissioning the largest ecological study of its kind, in the form of the farm scale evaluations of GM crops and the publication of the results; further congratulates the Government on the GM Nation Public Debate run by an independent steering board;

WORLD OSTEOPOROSIS DAY

That this House welcomes the marking by the National Osteoporosis Society of World Osteoporosis Day on 20th October, a key element in the campaign to raise awareness of this debilitating condition; expresses sympathy with the estimated three million osteoporosis sufferers in the United Kingdom; note

NGOs IN COLOMBIA

That this House welcomes the statement made by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, on 24th September, which expressed concern that a recent speech by President Uribe of Colombia criticising some NGOs ran the risk of being counterproductive, and that human righ

THE COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS

That this House records its admiration of the help given by the Compassionate Friends to over 50,000 bereaved parents since its foundations in 1969; and further records its respect for the members of the Compassionate Friends (all of whom are bereaved parents themselves) and their willingness to pro

TRAFALGAR DAY

That this House celebrates the Battle of Trafalgar of the 21st October 1805 as a high point of an intense 29 month campaign waged by the Royal Navy to thwart the French and Spanish invasion of Great Britain; pays tribute to the dedication of the brave people of Gibraltar and commends the Government

POVERTY

That this House welcomes the efforts by British Gas and the Daily Mirror to raise awareness of poverty in the UK, and further welcomes the Here to HELP day on 24th October; regrets that one in four people in the UK live in poverty; many of whom are single parents, older people or disabled; acknowled

TENZIN DELEG RINPOCHE

That this House deplores the death sentence facing the respected Buddhist religious leader, Tenzin Deleg Rinpoche, in Tibet that was handed down in an unfair trial on 2nd December 2002 and confirmed in a retrial in January; notes with concern that neither trial conformed to international fair trial

INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AT CLIFFE MARSHES

That this House is alarmed at proposals to build a new international airport on the Cliffe marshes in Kent, which is an internationally protected wildlife area which encompasses within it three sites classified as being of special scientific interest, together with a number of important wildlife res

CAMEL JOCKEYS

That this House calls upon the Government to voice to the Government of the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdon's concern about the practice in their country of the use of children, some as young as four years of age, as camel jockeys; and believes that such hazardous practices which put at ris

BICYCLE HELMET INITIATIVE TRUST

That this House notes that every year in the UK approximately 28,000 children under the age of 16 years receive a serious head injury as a result of a cycling accident and that sadly a number die as a result, whilst for many others their accident will have a devasting impact on their life, in many c

WESTERN MORNING NEWS CAMPAIGN ON LIVE HORSE EXPORTS

Line 3, after 'exports', insert 'regrets the failure of the previous Conservative Government to take preventative action to block the resumption of this trade.'

STATUTORY FOOTBALL COMMISSION

Line 11, at end add 'or, as an alternative, to re-introduce, on a strengthened basis, 'public interest' legislation.'

PARENTING TIME PRESUMPTION

Line, delete from 'courts' to end and insert 'where this is in the best interests of the child,'

DENNIS WISE

Line 5, after 'dedication', insert, 'which although not obvious in his time with Leicester City,'

STATEMENT BY THE PRIME MINISTER ON IRAQ

That this House notes the published diary extracts of the Right honourable Member for Livingston, in which he records that the Prime Minister admitted before the start of the conflict in Iraq that he knew that the Iraqi regime did not possess weapons of mass destruction that could be fired within 45

MR JIM CAIRNS

That this House notes with sadness the death of Mr Jim Cairns, the former deputy prime minister of Australia, a courageous campaigner for peace who stood up to the US invasion of Vietnam and Cambodia; and calls on today's politicians to follow his example of principled anti-imperialism.

SPAM E-MAILS

That this House commends the House of Commons Library Standard note on Unsolicited Electronic Mail (SN/SC/1280); notes that according to computer experts the amount of spam increased from 3.2 per cent. of total communication in 2002 to an astonishing 55 per cent. in March 2003 and that 90 per cent.