SALE BY ROCKSTAR GAMES OF THE `BULLY' VIDEO GAME

Early day motion 1172, tabled 30 November 2005 by Keith Vaz (Labour). Signed by 52 members.

That this House denounces the recent rise in violent video games; condemns the forthcoming video game Bully, which allows players to adopt the persona of Jimmy Hopkins, a 15-year-old thug who has been incarcerated in a boys' boarding school, and in which points can be scored by terrorising other pupils with a range of physical and psychological abuse; notes with grave concern that last year more than 31,000 children and young people spoke to a ChildLine counsellor about bullying; and calls on the Government to urge the British Board for Classification to take a much more cautious approach with this game and to ban it from being sold in the United Kingdom.

Signatures by party: Labour 37, Conservative 6, DUP 4, Liberal Democrat 3, Plaid Cymru 1, Respect 1.