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PRESS ACCESS TO FORCES IN GULF

EDM (Early Day Motion) 376A1: tabled on 01 February 1991

Tabled in the 1990-91 session.

This motion has been signed by 7 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 Brian Wilson on 29 January 1991. This is amendment number 1.

View details of the original motion

Suggested amendment

leave out from 'House' to end and add 'congratulates the Ministry of Defence for the assistance they have given in the placing within 1 Division of Mr Gordon Airs of the Scottish Daily Record as the nominated representative of the Scottish Newspaper Society.'.

Original motion text

That this House recognises the fact that Her Majesty's Forces in the Gulf are made up of troops from all parts of the United Kingdom, including a very large Scottish contingent; and calls on the Ministry of Defence's Press arrangements, including direct access for reporters to frontline personnel, to take full account of that fact.