HC Deb 09 July 1998 vol 315 cc1337-9

10 pm

Mr. Hugh Bayley (City of York)

I wish to present a petition signed by the lord mayor of York and supported by the signatures of the lord mayors of Leeds, Sheffield, Hull and Newcastle, the mayors of Sunderland, Durham, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Richmond in Yorkshire, Ripon, Harrogate, Scarborough, Wakefield, Calderdale, Doncaster, Driffield, Hornsea, Grimsby, North Lincolnshire, Kirton in Lindsey, and the chairs of Alnwick district council, Wear Valley district council and Wansbeck district council, which states: To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Parliament assembled. The Humble Petition of the Lord Mayors, Mayors and Chairs of Councils of the cities, boroughs and districts located in the Number 2 Region of the Armed Forces of the United Kingdom sheweth That the said Petitioners support the continued presence of the Army's 2nd Division Headquarters at Imphal Barracks in York, and are opposed to any move of this command of soldiers based in the region to Edinburgh. Wherefore your Petitioners pray that your Honourable House makes representations to Her Majesty's Government about the importance of retaining the Army's Northern Division Headquarters at Imphal Barracks in York. And your Petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray.

To lie upon the Table.