Weekly Information Bulletin: 12th May 2001
STATE OF THE PARTIES IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS AS AT 12 MAY 2001
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Labour |
417 |
Democratic Unionist Party
(Messrs McCrea, Paisley, Robinson)
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3 |
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Conservative |
159 |
Sinn Fein
(Messrs Adams & McGuinness)*
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2 |
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Liberal Democrats |
47 |
United Kingdom Unionist
(Mr Robert McCartney)
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1 |
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Independent - (Mr Martin Bell)
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1 |
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Ulster Unionists
(Messrs Beggs, Donaldson, Maginnis, Ross, Smyth, Taylor, Thompson, Trimble, Walker) |
9 |
Scottish Labour - (Mr Thomas Graham) |
1 |
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Member of Parliament for Brent East
(Mr Ken Livingstone)
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1 |
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Scottish National Party
(Messrs Morgan, Salmond, Swinney, Welsh, Mrs Ewing & Cunningham)
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6 |
Member of Parliament for Bexhill and Battle (Mr Charles Wardle)
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1 |
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Plaid Cymru
(Messrs, I W Jones, Llwyd, Wigley & S Thomas) |
4 |
The Speaker and 3 Deputies†
(Sir Alan Haselhurst, CWM; Mrs Sylvia Heal, 1st DCWM; Michael Lord, 2nd DCWM)
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4
659 |
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Social Democratic Labour Party
(Messrs Hume, Mallon & McGrady) |
3 |
Government majority |
179 |
The total number of women MPs is 120
(Lab 99, Con 14, LD 4, SNP 2, 1st DCWM 1)
† Do not normally vote * have not taken their seats
CWM: Chairman of Ways and Means
1st DCWM: 1st Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means
2nd DCWM: 2nd Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means
POLITICAL PARTY CONTACTS
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