LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC GAMES

Early day motion 1926, tabled 15 November 2004 by Derek Wyatt (Labour). Signed by 27 members.

That this House backs the UK's bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games; congratulates the bid team, led by London 2012, in submitting a first class bid to the International Olympic Committee; celebrates the fact that the Games would bring about tremendous benefits to the whole of the UK by boosting sport at all levels, creating jobs and opportunities for UK plc, boosting tourism, regenerating one of the most deprived parts of the UK, inspiring a generation to embrace sport and physical activity and in so doing helping to improve our nation's health; notes that the Games would provide an opportunity to showcase UK arts and culture to a global audience; and notes that the Games would instil a fantastic sense of pride throughout Britain in hosting the best Games the world has ever seen.

Signatures by party: Labour 10, Liberal Democrat 9, Conservative 3, DUP 3, Labour/Co-operative 1, UUP 1.