Celebrating Merchant Navy Day 2021
- Submitted by: Donald Cameron, Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party.
- Date lodged: Thursday, 26 August 2021
- Motion reference: S6M-00932
That the Parliament welcomes and celebrates Merchant Navy Day, which takes place on 3 September 2021; understands that the annual campaign is organised by The Seafarers Charity, which was formerly known as Seafarers UK, and that it honours seafarers who died whilst in Britain’s Merchant Navy during the Second World War, and recognises our continued dependence on the work of seafarers; acknowledges the important work of The Seafarers Charity which, it understands, in 2020 alone, released £2m in funding to support seafarers affected by COVID-19, and local community projects across the UK; encourages local authorities and other public buildings to fly the Red Ensign on 3 September, and thanks the country's seafarers for all that they do.
Supported by:
Alasdair Allan, Colin Beattie, Miles Briggs, Alexander Burnett, Jackson Carlaw, Finlay Carson, Foysol Choudhury, Sharon Dowey, Russell Findlay, Murdo Fraser, Meghan Gallacher, Kenneth Gibson, Pam Gosal, Jamie Greene, Rachael Hamilton, Liam Kerr, Stephen Kerr, Bill Kidd, Monica Lennon, Dean Lockhart, Douglas Lumsden, Fulton MacGregor, Ruth Maguire, Edward Mountain, Douglas Ross, Colin Smyth, Alexander Stewart, Paul Sweeney, Sue Webber, Annie Wells, Brian Whittle, Beatrice Wishart