In the Westminster parliamentary system, an early day motion (EDM) is a motion, expressed as a single sentence, tabled by a member of Parliament, which...
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speaker. On 21 February 2024, Conservative MP William Wragg tabled an Early day motion (EDM) in the House of Commons stating "That this House has no confidence...
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issue of a posthumous award was brought before the UK Parliament. An Early Day Motion was put before the House of Commons in June 2005, supported by more...
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parliamentary Early Day Motion was raised calling for Salvia divinorum to be banned there. However, it only received 11 signatures. A second Early Day Motion was...
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There had been an earlier attempt to set up a National Beer Day in 2009, when 43 Members of Parliament supported an Early day motion, as follows: That...
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Following her death, an Early Day Motion was passed by the British House of Commons paying tribute to Kate ter Horst. Early Day Motion 739 'That this House...
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Democrat Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds North West, introduced an Early Day Motion (EDM) in the House of Commons, proposing that England have its own...
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Lord Nicholas Windsor (section Early years)
Retrieved 19 January 2012. "Early Day Motion" (Microsoft Document). Parliament.uk. Retrieved 11 February 2006. "Early Day Motion" (Microsoft Document). Parliament...
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tone and style of the programme after its 50th anniversary led to an Early Day Motion being tabled in Parliament by Andrew George MP in June 2007. Brian...
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A motion or vote of no confidence (or the inverse, a motion or vote of confidence) is a motion and corresponding vote thereon in a deliberative assembly...
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Lady Nicholas Windsor (section Early life)
Retrieved 21 July 2014. "Early Day Motion" (Microsoft Document). Parliament.uk. Retrieved 11 February 2006. "Early Day Motion" (Microsoft Document). Parliament...
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John Robertson (Glasgow MP) (section Early life)
energy security". He is a supporter of homeopathy, having signed an early day motion in support of its continued funding on the National Health Service...
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UDR Four (section Early Day Motion (House of Commons))
British legal history. On 21 October 1992 Peter Robinson moved an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom that said: That this...
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John Mann, Baron Mann (section Early life and career)
Mann raised an Early day motion calling for the psychoactive plant species, Salvia divinorum, to be banned in the UK (EDM796). The motion only received...
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a Channel 4 documentary in 1994 (The Glasshouse) which prompted an early day motion in the House of Commons over the inmates having access to ammunition...
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LBC (section Launch and early history)
to the detriment of someone else's kids." Norman Lamb MP tabled an Early Day Motion criticising Barnett and LBC for the likely effect of the broadcast...
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Alan Meale (section Early life)
that Meale repaid £11,859.47. Meale was one of sixteen MPs to sign an early day motion tabled by Conservative MP David Tredinnick regretting the British Medical...
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November 2010 until September 2015. Her resignation was noted in an early day motion tabled 9 September 2015: "under Baroness Young's leadership, Diabetes...
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Climate Change Act 2008 (section Early day motion)
2005 general election, 412 of the 646 Members of Parliament signed an early day motion calling for a Climate Change Bill to be introduced, to include a requirement...
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Keith Vaz (section Early and personal life)
generally positively received by critics. In October 2010, Vaz put down an early day motion noting that the 2009–10 Malmö shootings "have been associated with...
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Ravenhall and Haining. In March 2009, the MP Russell Brown tabled the early day motion Recognition for British Heroes of the Holocaust in Westminster citing...
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Leah McGrath Goodman (section Early life and education)
and political science. In 2012, UK politician John Hemming tabled an early day motion regarding the withdrawal of McGrath Goodman's UK visa, because she...
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Early day motion 660: LOAN SHARKS, accessed 7 April 2011. House of Commons, 31 March 2008, Early day motion 1280: ACCESS TO AFFORDABLE CREDIT "Early day...
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Tommy McAvoy (section Early life and career)
the rare feat among whips of remaining popular with Labour MPs. An early day motion in July 2006 noted "the difficult task he has of securing government...
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MP, argued in an early day motion for a return to the broadcasting of the national anthem at the end of BBC One transmissions each day (the practice had...
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David Tredinnick (politician) (section Early life)
2013, Tredinnick sponsored an Early Day Motion congratulating a farmer for his decision to use homeopathy. The motion was supported by one other MP;...
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Prayer Motions in the House of Commons typically take the form of an Early Day Motion. A fatal prayer must be tabled within 40 days from the introduction...
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Nothing Like a Dame (section Early day motion)
for his casting and choice of music. The book was the subject of an early day motion tabled in the House of Commons on 20 April 2006 "[congratulating] BBC...
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"Early day motion 1780: Parliamentary Oath". House of Commons. 12 June 2008. Retrieved 11 November 2024. The signatories of the early day motion were:...
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(Woodspring) only signed 1st Early Day Motion against Maastricht Alan Duncan (Rutland and Melton) only signed 1st Early Day Motion against Maastricht David...
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