NUCLEAR WEAPONS CONVENTION

Early day motion 498, tabled 14 July 2010 by Jeremy Corbyn (Labour). Signed by 30 members.

That this House welcomes the Final Agreement of the 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference and the commitment of the nuclear weapon states to undertake further efforts to reduce and ultimately eliminate all types of nuclear weapons; further welcomes the call for a necessary framework to achieve and maintain a world without nuclear weapons and the promotion of a nuclear weapons convention; notes the growing support for such a convention since the vote by 125 states in a 2006 UN General Assembly vote; and calls on the Government actively to support the negotiation of a nuclear weapons convention to outlaw all nuclear weapons.

Signatures by party: Labour 15, Liberal Democrat 7, Plaid Cymru 3, Social Democratic and Labour Party 2, Conservative 1, Green 1, Scottish National Party 1.