Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Lynda Waltho (Labour), on Monday, 18 February 2008, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 16 members in total.

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RECOGNITION OF THE BLACK COUNTRY BY ORDNANCE SURVEY AND OTHERS

That this House notes the concern of the Black Country Chamber of Commerce, which includes the four chambers of the Black Country, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Sandwell and Dudley that the Black Country region is not indicated on Ordnance Survey maps; urges the Ordnance Survey to clearly represent the Black Country region on its maps by naming it; also urges the Ordnance Survey to rename Map 139, Birmingham and the Black Country; acknowledges that this would reinforce the Chamber's wider campaign to promote the region; further acknowledges that putting the Black Country on the map would indicate the importance of an area in which 1.2 million people live and which the industrial revolution defined and advanced; and further urges the House authorities to recognise the Black Country as a specific region in the output of the Official Report.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

929 

Session

2007-08

Other sponsors

Adrian Bailey

Janet Dean

David Winnick

Lord Austin of Dudley

Lord Spellar

Subjects

Industry Local government Tourism

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk