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Early Day Motion
Cumulative disruption proposals and the right to protest (110 Signatures)
12 Nov 2025
Tabled by: Andy McDonald (Labour - Middlesbrough and Thornaby East)
That this House expresses deep alarm at recent proposals to require senior police officers to take into account any so-called cumulative disruption caused by past or planned future protests when considering whether to impose conditions on protests; notes these powers represent a significant expansion of state authority to ration the …
Early Day Motion
UK Government recognition of the state of Palestine (110 Signatures)
12 Jun 2025
Tabled by: Andy McDonald (Labour - Middlesbrough and Thornaby East)
That this House notes the high-level international conference for the peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine and the implementation of the two-state solution of 17-20 June 2025; welcomes the Prime Minister’s remarks that Palestinian statehood is the inalienable right of the Palestinian people; reaffirms the position of the House …
Early Day Motion
Support for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (43 Signatures)
29 Oct 2024
Tabled by: Andy McDonald (Labour - Middlesbrough and Thornaby East)
That this House expresses its regret at the passing of laws in Israel's Knesset which in effect denies the protections and means essential for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the largest humanitarian agency in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, to operate; believes there is no viable alternative to …
Early Day Motion
Gaza (33 Signatures)
18 Jul 2024
Tabled by: Andy McDonald (Labour - Middlesbrough and Thornaby East)
That this House notes the appalling situation in Gaza, where Palestinian civilians are facing death by starvation; supports an immediate bilateral ceasefire, including the release of hostages held by armed groups in Gaza, and the release of Palestinian detainees held without charge in Israel; calls on the Government to demand …
Early Day Motion
United Nations Relief and Works Agency (31 Signatures)
18 Jul 2024
Tabled by: Andy McDonald (Labour - Middlesbrough and Thornaby East)
That this House calls on the Government to restore immediately full UK funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), but also to increase funding to address the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza; notes Israeli attempts to evict UNRWA from Jerusalem; and further calls on the Government to mount …
Early Day Motion
Palestinians facing persecution (58 Signatures)
4 Jul 2023
Tabled by: Andy McDonald (Labour - Middlesbrough and Thornaby East)
That this House recognises that the Palestinian people are under unprecedented attack; notes that the Israeli Government, one of the most right-wing in its history, has launched its biggest military incursion in the West Bank in two decades, is announcing thousands of new illegal settlements on a regular basis, continuing …
Early Day Motion
20th anniversary of shooting of Tom Hurndall (62 Signatures)
17 Apr 2023
Tabled by: Andy McDonald (Labour - Middlesbrough and Thornaby East)
That this House notes that April 2023 marks twenty years since 22 year old British photojournalist, Tom Hurndall, was shot in the head by an Israeli army sniper as he tried to rescue Palestinian children from the line of gunfire in Gaza; further notes that he died in January 2004 …
Early Day Motion
Local Government (9 Signatures)
22 Feb 2023
Tabled by: Andy McDonald (Labour - Middlesbrough and Thornaby East)
That an humble Address be presented to His Majesty, praying that the Middlesbrough Development Corporation (Establishment) Order 2023 (S.I., 2023, No. 103), dated 30 January 2023, a copy of which was laid before this House on 6 February 2023, be annulled.
Early Day Motion
Closure of the Middlesbrough Diamorphine-Assisted Treatment programme (21 Signatures)
14 Dec 2022
Tabled by: Andy McDonald (Labour - Middlesbrough and Thornaby East)
That this House is dismayed that the pioneering Middlesbrough Diamorphine-Assisted Treatment programme has closed due to the withdrawal of funding; applauds the exemplary efforts of Danny Ahmed and his colleagues at the addiction treatment clinic in helping to save and rebuild lives; recognises the success of this scheme in providing …
Early Day Motion
Treatment of outsourced security staff at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (28 Signatures)
1 Dec 2021
Tabled by: Andy McDonald (Labour - Middlesbrough and Thornaby East)
That this House notes with deep concern that security guards at the world-renowned Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, who have gone above and beyond during the covid-19 outbreak to keep the hospital safe and secure, are still outsourced to a private contractor, and not employed directly by the NHS, …