JAPANESE WHALING POLICY

Early day motion 1859, tabled 23 June 2008 by Lindsay Hoyle (Labour). Signed by 72 members.

That this House condemns the controversial Japanese policy of hunting whales under the bogus banner of scientific research; supports the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and Greenpeace objectives to expose the practice as commercial whaling under the guise of science; calls on the Government to give full backing to the IWC in its objective to forbid Japan from using a scientific research programme to kill an increasing annual quota of whales; and fully supports the IWC's proposal to assign a region of the Atlantic Ocean for a permanent whale sanctuary where all hunting will be banned.

Signatures by party: Labour 45, Liberal Democrat 12, Conservative 4, DUP 3, Plaid Cymru 2, Scottish National Party 2, Independent 1, Social Democratic and Labour Party 1, UKIP 1, UUP 1.