PARDONS FOR SUFFRAGETTES

Early day motion 1071, tabled 28 April 2004 by Annabelle Ewing (Scottish National Party). Signed by 53 members.

That this House notes the 90th anniversary of the end of the militant campaign of the suffragette movement; recognises that the sentences handed down to suffragette prisoners and the treatment of those prisoners when convicted were politically motivated and bore no relation to the acts committed; and calls on Her Majesty's Government for a posthumous pardon for the suffragette women who were convicted during this important period in women's history.

Signatures by party: Labour 30, Liberal Democrat 14, Scottish National Party 4, Plaid Cymru 3, Labour/Co-operative 2.