All Party Parliamentary Group for Debt, Aid & Trade

In Parliament

The Group provides a range of briefings, suggested parliamentary questions and EDMs for members to utilise. It also monitors developments in parliament relating to macroeconomic issues and international development. The Group also attends important hearings and Committee events to keep abreast of developments inside and outside of Parliament. In the past month, the APPG was able to send representatives to put questions to the Canadian Finance Minister, Rt. Hon Ralph Goodale MP and to Mary Robinson as the Global Head of Oxfam, as well as attending Select Committee hearings of Rt. Hon Gordon Brown and Rt. Hon Hilary Benn MP.

WDM's Water Early Day Motion-who signed?

As mentioned last month WDM's water EDM exceeded even our high expectations and was signed by 211 MPs, representing a third of all MPs overall. Ranking all this session's EDMs by number of MPs who signed, means our EDM was 50th, out of 3196 EDMs. That puts it in the top 2% of EDMs tabled.

Below is the list of MPs who signed the motion.

No of MPs per party, who signed the EDM

Conservative party	8	Respect	1
Democratic Party	6	Scottish National Party	5
Labour Party	129	Social Democratic and Labour Party	3
Liberal Democrats	55	Ulster Unionist Party	1
Plaid Cymru	3

Percentage of each party that signed:

Lib Dem: 87.3 per cent

Labour: 36.6 per cent ( but when Ministers, who cannot sign EDMs are removed the number goes up to 51.1 percent)

Conservative: 4 per cent

Other parties: 73 per cent

Breakdown of total signatories by party

Lib Dem: 26 per cent

Labour: 61.1 per cent

Conservative: 3.8 per cent

Other: 9.1 per cent