HUMAN GENOME PROJECT

Early day motion 902, tabled 27 June 2000 by Brian Iddon (Labour). Signed by 104 members.

That this House congratulates all those scientists and technicians who have worked so hard in 16 countries across the world, especially the group at the Sanger Centre, Cambridge, for completing their historic initial work on sequencing the Human Genome; and urges the UK Government, the Wellcome Trust and all others engaged in funding this research to continue to do so.

Signatures by party: Labour 81, Liberal Democrat 10, Labour/Co-operative 8, Conservative 2, Plaid Cymru 2, UUP 1.