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Appendix B – List of submissions The following individuals and organisations submitted evidence to the Royal Commission as part of its consultation exercise. Copies of all the submissions are included on the attached CD-ROM, except for those few where the individuals concerned requested that their evidence be treated as confidential. To view evidence from CD-ROM click on names below. Parliamentarians and Political Parties The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland Richard Corbett MEP The Conservative and Unionist Party Earl of Cork and Orrery DSC VRD The Co-operative Party Lord Craig of Radley GCB OBE Democratic Party The Green Party of England and Wales Lord Dahrendorf KBE FBA The Labour Party Lord Derwent LVD DL Liberal Democrats Professor Lord Desai Plaid Cymru – The Party of Wales Earl of Devon DL Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party The Rt Hon Lord Diamond Scottish National Party Viscount Dilhorne Welsh Liberal Democrats Lord Dixon-Smith DL The Rt Hon Lord Donaldson of Lymington The Rt Hon Lord Aberdare KBE DL Lord Acton Michael Elliott MEP Lord Alexander of Weedon QC, Delegated Powers Louise Ellman MP,Parliamentary Labour Party and Deregulation Committee Regional Government Group Lord Annan OBE Lord Elton TD Lord Ashburton KG KCVO DL The Rt Hon Eric Forth MP Richard Balfe MEP The Rt Hon Lord Barnett Roger Gale MP The Rt Hon Tony Benn MP Christopher Gill RD MP Gerald Bermingham MP The Rt Hon Lord Goff of Chieveley FBA Lord Bethell Lord Gordon of Strathblane CBE The Rt Hon Lord Bingham of Cornhill Teresa Gorman MP The Rt Rev Lord Bishop of Blackburn Baroness Gould of Potternewton Lord Blake FBA JP Lord Gray The Rt Hon Lord Blaker KCMG Dominic Grieve MP Lord Bowness CBE DL Jane Griffiths MP The Rt Hon Lord Brightman Lord Bruce of Donington The Rt Rev and The Rt Hon Lord Habgood His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch & Queensberry KT Earl of Halsbury FEng FRS Richard Burden MP Lord Harding of Petherton Lord Butterfield OBE FRCP Lord Hardinge of Penshurst John Butterfill MP Lord Hardy of Wath DL The Earl of Harrowby TD The Rt Hon Lord Callaghan of Cardiff KG Lord Haskel Lord Campbell of Alloway ERD QC Lord Hazlerigg MC TD DL Dennis Canavan MP MSP John Healey MP The Rt Hon Baroness Chalker of Wallasey The Rt Hon Sir Edward Heath KG MBE MP Lord Christopher CBE Lord Hemingford The Rt Hon Lord Cledwyn of Penrhos CH The Rt Hon Douglas Hogg QC MP Lord Clifford of Chudleigh DL The Rt Hon Lord Hope of Craighead Lord Cobbold DL The Rt Hon Lord Howe of Aberavon CH QC Lord Coleraine Lord Hylton 200 Lord Cooke of Thorndon KBE Appendix B – List of submissions Lord Inglewood ARICS DL Anita Pollack MEP Gordon Prentice MP Robert Jackson MP Peter Price MEP,European Strategy Counsel The Rt Hon Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle Lord Puttnam CBE The Rt Hon Lord Jenkin of Roding Lord Judd Earl of Radnor Lord Rea The Rt Hon Lord Keith of Kinkel GBE The Rt Hon Lord Renton KBE QC TD DL Lord Kennet The Rt Hon Lord Richard QC Lord Kilmarnock The Rt Hon Lord Rodgers of Quarry Bank Viscount Runciman of Doxford Lord Lester of Herne Hill QC The Rt Rev Lord Bishop of Lichfield Lady Saltoun of Abernethy The Rt Rev Lord Bishop of Lincoln Earl of Sandwich The Rt Hon Lord Lloyd of Berwick DL Lord Selsdon Lord Lucas of Crudwell and Dingwall The Rt Hon Lord Shore of Stepney Earl of Lytton The Rt Hon Lord Simon of Glaisdale DL The Rt Hon Lord Slynn of Hadley (on behalf of John McAllion MP the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary) Anne McIntosh MP Clive Soley MP The Rt Hon John MacGregor OBE MP Tom Spencer MEP The Rt Hon Lord Mackay of Clashfern KT Sir Michael Spicer MP Fiona Mactaggart MP Lord Stone of Blackheath The Rt Hon John Major CH MP Baroness Strange Seamus Mallon MP,Northern Ireland Assembly Desmond Swayne MP Dr John Marek MP Lord Marlesford DL Lord Tanlaw The Rt Hon Lord Marsh The Rt Hon Baroness Thatcher LG OM FRS Graham Mather MEP,European Policy Forum Gareth Thomas MP The Rt Hon Lord Merlyn-Rees Lord Thomas of Swynnerton Lord Middleton MC DL Andrew Tyrie MP Lord Monson Viscount Montgomery of Alamein CBE Lord Vinson LVO DL Lord Mottistone CBE Viscount Mountgarret The Rt Hon Lord Waddington GCVO DL QC Lord Walton of Detchant TD The Rt Hon Lord Naseby Baroness Warnock DBE Lord Nathan Phillip Whitehead MEP Lord Northbourne DL The Rt Hon Lord Wilberforce CMG OBE Prof Lord Norton of Louth, University of Hull The Rt Rev Lord Bishop of Winchester Lord Nunburnholme The Rt Hon Lord Windlesham CVO David Winnick MP The Earl of Onslow Nicholas Winterton MP Phil Woolas MP The Rt Hon Lord Patten The Rt Hon Lord Woolf Roy Perry MEP Rev Lord Wrenbury Lord Peston Dr Tony Wright MP Baroness Platt of Writtle CBE DL 201 Appendix B – List of submissions Expert witnesses Stephen Alambritis, Federation of Small Businesses Graham Dale, Christian Socialist Movement Lord Alexander of Weedon QC, JUSTICE Philip Daniel, Catholic Union Lincoln Allison,Warwick University Prof John Davis Prof Antony Allott John Day, Independent Methodist Churches Bob Armitage, Cheshire Association of Town and Sir Robin Day Parish Councils Prof Brice Dickson, Northern Ireland Human Dr Mac Armstrong, British Medical Association Rights Commission Robert Ashby, British Humanist Association Shelagh Diplock OBE, Hansard Society His Eminence Hazrat Allama Qamaruzzama Azmi, Rev Sheila Douglas, International Ministerial West Midlands Racial Equality Forum Council of Great Britain Martin Drury,The National Trust Rev Dr Peter Baines, Baptist Union of Wales Phillip Dry,The Law Society of Scotland Rev Canon Robin Baker Rev John Dunlop, Presbyterian Church in Ireland The Very Rev Dr R D Bakere Dr David Dyke, University of Birmingham Dr Nicholas D J Baldwin,Wroxton College of Fairleigh Dickinson University Rev Aled Edwards, Churches’ National Prof James P Barber Assembly Centre Anthony Barnett, Demos Liz Edwards, Local Governance Review Group Michael Bartlett, Religious Society of Richard A Edwards, Southampton Institute Friends (Quakers) Cllr F A J Emery-Wallis DL FSA Hon FRIBA Prof David Beetham, Leeds University Hon FLA, Hampshire County Council Hon Michael Beloff Steven Everts, Centre for European Reform Nigel Bennett, Barnardos Prof Robert Blackburn, King’s College London Matthew Farrow, CBI Scotland Prof Donald Bligh Dr M A Fazal, Nottingham Trent University Sir Louis Blom-Cooper QC Helen Ferguson, Carers’ National Association Prof Vernon Bogdanor CBE, Oxford University Northern Ireland Frances Bolton, Society of Conservative Lawyers Prof P Fidler MBE, University of Sunderland Dr Martyn Bond Susan Forscey-Moore,The Campaign for a Sir Wilfrid Bourne Fair Hearing Billy Bragg Pat Frankish,The British Psychological Society Rev Marcus Braybrooke,World Congress of Faiths Prof Rodney John Brazier, University of Manchester David R S Gallagher PhD, Methodist Church A J E Brennan CB in Ireland Dr John Bridge, One North East Chris Garner, Nuffield College Peter Briggs, British Association for the Philip Giddings, University of Reading Advancement of Science Pam Giddy, Charter 88 Brian Briscoe, Local Government Association Dr L Goldstone,The Institute of Electrical Engineers David Brown, North Cornwall District Council Sir Nicholas Goodison, Lloyds TSB Group Plc Rev A Burnham,The United Reform Church Cllr E Goodman, Reigate and Banstead David Butler CBE, Hansard Society Borough Council John Gouriet, Freedom In Action The Campaign for a Northern Assembly Prof William Gray DPH (Soc) Ect Celia Capstick, National Board of Catholic Women Dr John Greenaway, University of East Anglia Hon Mr Justice Carnwath CVO, Law Commission Sally Greengross,Age Concern England David Chapman, Democracy Design Forum Rev David Coffey, Baptist Union of Great Britain G Hale, North East Constitutional Convention Dr M J Collins Lawrence Hall, Charter 88, Brighton & Hove Patrick Coyle, Guild of Catholic Doctors Sir David Hannay Rev Jeremy Cresswell Martin Havenhand,Yorkshire Forward Prof Bernard Crick David G Henshaw, SOLACE Sir Brian Cubbon Ros Hepplewhite, General Dental Council Mark Curtis,Action Aid Rev Canon Roger Hill Jonathan Hirst QC,The General Council of the Bar Derek Hodgson, Communication Workers Union Barry Horne, East Midlands Regional Assembly 202 Carole Hudson, North West Regional Chambers Appendix B – List of submissions Dr T D Inch BSc PhD DSc CChem FRSC, Prof Edward Page, University of Hull Royal Society of Chemistry Sir Dick Pantlin CBE Sir Bernard Ingham Susie Parsons, Commission for Racial Equality Canon David Ison, Diocese of Exeter The Rt Hon Christopher Patten CH Prof Sir Alan Peacock DSC FBA FRSE,The Dr Joseph Jaconelli, University of Manchester David Hume Institute Stephen Jakobi,The Fair Trials Abroad Trust Brian Pearce,The Inter Faith Network for the Simon Jenkins,The Times United Kingdom Nevil Johnson, Nuffield College Samantha Peters,The British Youth Council Cllr Johnstone, Harrogate District Council Derek Phillips, Church of Ireland Afron Jones,The Evangelical Alliance,Wales Sid Platt,West Midlands LGA Audrey Jones,Wales Assembly of Women Gill Pope, National Federation of Womens’ Institutes Prof George Jones, School of Economics & K Porteous Wood FCCA,The National Political Science Secular Society Cllr Robert Jones, East Midlands Regional Local John Pratt, Centre for Citizenship Government Association Julian Priestley, European Parliament Prof Peter Pulzer, Oxford University Gavin Kelly, Fabian Society Rev John Kennedy,The Methodist Church Prof John Radford Liz Kerry, Regional Assembly for Yorkshire D N P Radlett, Mid Kent College of Higher and and Humberside Further Education Venerable Ajahn Khemadhammo,Abbot, John Ritblat,The
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