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COMMISSIONER FOR CHILDREN

EDM (Early Day Motion) 402A1: tabled on 16 February 2000

Tabled in the 1999-00 session.

This motion has been signed by 12 Members. It is an amendment to an existing motion.

As this motion is using historical data, we may not have the record of the original ordering, in which case signatories are listed alphabetically.

This is an amendment to an existing motion

This motion was originally tabled by Mr Hilton Dawson on 15 February 2000. This is amendment number 1.

View details of the original motion

Suggested amendment

after 'England', insert 'and Northern Ireland'.

Original motion text

That this House Welcomes recommendation 1 of the 72 recommendations of the Waterhouse Inquiry that 'an Independent Children's Commissioner for Wales should be appointed'; recognises that this would be a service for all children in Wales; regards it as essential that such a post is also established in England; and calls upon the Government to bring forward the necessary legislation without delay.