DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY'S SPONSORSHIP OF LONDON 2012

Early day motion 2207, tabled 10 October 2011 by Keith Vaz (Labour). Signed by 23 members.

That this House is deeply concerned that the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG) has appointed the Dow Chemical Company to manufacture a wrap covering the Olympic stadium, purportedly costing 7 million; notes that Dow acquired the Union Carbide Corporation in 2001, responsible for the 1984 Bhopal Gas Disaster and implicated in the ongoing toxic disaster at Bhopal; is saddened that a UK charity, the Bhopal Medical Appeal, reports thousands depending on contaminated water, an ill-health epidemic and widespread birth deformities; and urges the Government to call on LOCOG to reconsider its association with Dow Chemical Company.

Signatures by party: Labour 16, Liberal Democrat 3, Plaid Cymru 2, Green 1, Social Democratic and Labour Party 1.