Early day motion · EDM 566 · 11 Jan 2010

BRITISH OVERSEAS TERRITORIES AND THE LAYING OF THE CENOTAPH WREATH

Tabled by Sir Lindsay Hoyle (Speaker) 39 signatures

The motion

That this House acknowledges and takes pride in the annual tradition of laying a wreath at the Cenotaph in Whitehall on Remembrance Sunday in recognition of the contribution made by members of Her Majesty's armed services from each of the British Overseas Territories; believes that the sacrifices of all these brave men and women would be most appropriately acknowledged by granting representatives from Ascension Island, Anguilla, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, the Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Pitcairn Island, St Helena, Tristan da Cunha, the Turks and Caicos Islands, the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia, the British Antarctic Territory, the British Indian Ocean Territory, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands the right to lay a wreath at the annual Service of Remembrance; questions the practice of the wreath being laid by a Minister from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office; and calls on the Government to rectify this anomaly for Remembrance Sunday 2010.

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