AFGHANISTAN DRUG CULTIVATION

Early day motion 749, tabled 12 October 2005 by Paul Flynn (Labour). Signed by 23 members.

That this House notes that spending £115 million of taxpayers' money on the eradication of heroin production in Afghanistan has failed, with a reduction of only 2 per cent. in production in 2004 compared with the previous year's record harvest; questions the planned spending of a further £155 million in an impossible mission; is convinced that a fall in heroin exports from Afghanistan will be replaced with increased production from Myanmar and Pakistan; and urges the diversion of poppy cultivation into legal diamorphine production to answer the current world shortage of this valuable, widely used medicine.

Signatures by party: Labour 18, Liberal Democrat 3, Conservative 1, Plaid Cymru 1.