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Bill· Private Members' Bill (under the Ten Minute Rule)Bill 1565open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 March 2015
A Bill to require the Secretary of State to undertake a programme of research into the costs and benefits of introducing an annual levy on sales to be paid by tobacco manufacturers, with the proceeds to be used to support tobacco control measures, to discourage young people from starting to smoke tobacco, to help existing tobacco smokers to stop smoking; and for connected purposes.
Bill· Private Members' Bill (under the Ten Minute Rule)Bill 1131open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 January 2013
A Bill to hold corporations criminally accountable for abuse and neglect in care settings; to make provision to compel any person or organisation to supply information to Adult Safeguarding Boards; and to introduce a new offence of corporate neglect whereby a corporate body can be found guilty if the way in which its activities are managed or organised by its board or senior management is a substantial element in the existence or possible occurrence of abuse or neglect.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 871open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 19 December 2012
That this House considers that pleural plaques caused by negligent exposure to asbestos constitute actual harm; calls on the Government to reassess its stance on access to compensation for people suffering pleural plaques caused by exposure to asbestos and allow sufferers to sue their employers where there is proven negligence; and further calls on the Government to adopt the position taken in Scotland whereby sufferers may bring a claim under civil law for compensation where their condition was caused by the negligence of the employer.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 848open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2012
That this House notes that in the updated National Strategy for Carers the Government pledged an additional £400 million to the NHS to enable more carers to take well-earned breaks from their caring responsibilities; further notes that there are over six million carers in the UK who are vital to its national system of care and support and that last year, primary care trusts (PCTs) were required to publish plans and budgets on supporting carers in line with the Carers' Strategy and that although some have done so, many have not fulfilled their duties; supports the report recently published by Carers Trust which details the lack of transparency and accountability for carers in terms of how PCTs are supporting them; agrees with Carers Trust that carers could be better supported if clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) worked with local authorities, carers and local carers organisations to refresh local carers strategies and to ensure carers benefit from the funding made available to the NHS up until 2015; and finally calls on the Government and the NHS Commissioning Board to ensure CCGs work in partnership with others to identify clear and accessible ways to present information on how they are supporting carers and allocating funding for carers' breaks.
Bill· Private Members' Bill (Presentation Bill)Bill 629open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 17 March 2010
A Bill to require the Secretary of State to publish and keep under review a strategy to improve the provision of services for adults in England with dementia and their carers; to require the Secretary of State to report annually to Parliament on the implementation of the strategy; to require local authorities, the NHS and other bodies to act in accordance with relevant guidance issued by the Secretary of State; and for connected purposes.
Bill· Private Members' Bill (Presentation Bill)Bill 628open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 March 2010
A Bill to change the name of Council Tax Benefit to Council Tax Rebate; and for connected purposes
Bill· Private Members' Bill (Presentation Bill)Bill 605open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 27 January 2010
A Bill to enable admission authorities to have regard for local authority boundaries and other defined localities when allocating school places; to provide for the appointment of an independent lay majority on local school admission forums; and for connected purposes.
Bill· Private Members' Bill (under the Ten Minute Rule)Bill 462open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 24 March 2009
A Bill to make provision for the periodic review of the capital limits and tariff income rules and the personal expense allowance; to make provision for consultations on the level of those allowances and rules; and for connected purposes.
Bill· Private Members' Bill (Presentation Bill)Bill 440open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 3 February 2009
A Bill to protect private gardens from development which is out of character with the surrounding area; to make provision about the circumstances in which a planning application may be rejected by a local authority and about rights of appeal in such circumstances; to prohibit repeated planning applications in certain circumstances; and for connected purposes
Bill· Private Members' Bill (Presentation Bill)Bill 156open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 June 2007
Amend the Human Rights Act 1998 to extend the definition of public authority to include any body acting pursuant to a contract with a public body to perform a function of a public nature; to confer new functions on local authorities in relation to persons in need of care or protection provided by such authorities; and for connected purposes.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 417open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 December 2004
That this House regrets the passage of the Food Supplements Regulations (England) 2003; and calls on the Government to use the UK Presidency to seek agreement to any necessary changes to the EU Food Supplements Directive to enable the current UK regulations to be repealed and replaced with regulations that better protect the interests of consumers and manufacturers in the United Kingdom.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 428open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 December 2002
That this House notes that more than 4,000 letters are outstanding to honourable Members from seven Government departments; further notes that 800 of these are six months old or longer, of which 474 are from the Department of Health; further notes that the Department for Education and Skills does not monitor these figures; regrets that the DfID and the Home Office have failed to provide this information despite being asked on 7th November; further notes that letters to ministers are one of the few remaining ways that honourable Members are able to hold Her Majesty's Government to account, scrutinise its policies and programmes and pursue constituency cases; believes that ministers are either deliberately withholding information until it is no longer relevant or are incompetent; and calls upon the Public Administration Committee to investigate the reasons for the backlog of unanswered ministerial letters to ensure that this House and its honourable Members are not bypassed or prevented from undertaking scrutiny of the Executive.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 431open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 December 2002
That this House believes that the numbers of children in this country who die through abuse and neglect is unacceptable and that public policy has failed to reduce the level of child deaths over the last 30 years; is concerned that the Chief Inspector of Social Services records in her eleventh annual report that three per cent. of children on the child protection register and five per cent. of looked-after children are not allocated a social worker, up to 4,000 children without a safety net; is further concerned that there is no systematic follow-up for child deaths or co-ordinated strategy to reduce child deaths in this country; calls on the Government to place area child protection committees on a statutory footing by placing a duty on all the agencies involved in child protection to participate in the work of the committee and support the local authority in discharging its child protection role; and further calls on the Government to establish an independent Children's Commissioner to promote and protect the rights of all children.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 432open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 December 2002
That this House recognises the invaluable work of St John Ambulance; notes that neither the Department of Health or Treasury were aware that the charity carried out over 240,000 hours of accident and emergency cover in 2001; further notes that without the dedicated members of St John Ambulance, NHS ambulance services would be under even greater pressure; and calls upon the Government to examine the possibility of introducing a VAT exemption for the fuel for its ambulances.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 126open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 19 December 2000
That this House notes mounting evidence that disease-modifying drugs (beta interferons and glatiramer acetate) bring long-term benefits to people with MS; recognises the benefits these drugs bring in terms of improved health and maintaining independence; believes any cost-effectiveness assessment of these drugs must take full account of their effect on the lives of individuals and of the total costs of supporting a person disabled by MS; and calls upon the Government to make these drugs available through the National Health Service on the recommendation of a neurologist.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 30open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 December 2000
That this House is concerned that almost 200,000 widowed men have been denied a tax relief worth some ú500 that was available to widows; notes that the widow's bereavement allowance predated the introduction of independent taxation of married couples; notes that when the inequity of the present allowance was challenged in the European Court in 1999 the Government settled out of court and paid the claim; believes that the refusal to treat other men in the same way breaches the Inland Revenue's service commitment; and calls on the Chancellor of the Exchequer to ensure that all men widowed between 6th April 1994 and 5th April 2000 can claim the allowance.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 31open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 6 December 2000
That this House notes the long-standing, widespread and growing support amongst NGOs, professional bodies and the public for the full implementation of the Royal Commission on Long Term Care's recommendation that personal care should be provided free on the basis of an assessment of individual need; supports calls from Age Concern and the All Party Parliamentary Group on Ageing and Older People, that the Government should implement the personal care proposals to end discrimination against older people with chronic health conditions; is concerned that the Government's proposals for free nursing care will leave the current difficulties of division between health and social care remaining; and calls on the Government to introduce legislation to provide free personal care on the basis of need.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 907open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 18 July 2000
at end add 'and further calls on the Government to end the discrimination practice of denying invalid care allowance to new claimants over retirement age.'.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 957open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 11 July 2000
That this House notes that new research has demonstrated that the cost of beta interferon should be calculated on the assumption that its benefits can be long-term and that the cost of the drug is outweighted by the cost to society of caring for a patient disabled by MS; and calls on the National Institute for Clinical Excellence to examine the findings reported in the journal Pharmaco Economics and to take evidence from people with MS.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 899open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 June 2000
at end add 'and further calls on NICE to seek direct evidence from MS sufferers before finalising its guidance.'.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 908open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 28 June 2000
That this House notes with concern the cases highlighted at the British Medical Association conference of inappropriate use of not for resuscitation orders; is alarmed at reports that junior doctors feel cajoled and coerced into making NFR orders; notes that this is in clear breach of the guidelines that make clear the leading role of consultants in such decisions and the requirement to consult the patient and their family; and calls on the Secretary of State for Health to take urgent steps to ensure compliance with the guidelines and launch an information campaign to inform patients of their rights.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 850open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 13 June 2000
That this House welcomes the proposal announced in the Budget to lower VAT on women's sanitary products to 5 per cent. from 1st January 2001; agrees that women's sanitary products are not luxury consumer products; notes that continence products also classify as sanitary products and are not luxury consumer products; and calls on Her Majesty's Government to ensure that their definition of sanitary products will allow for the lowering of VAT to 5 per cent. on continence products, which are required, according to Government estimates in Good Practice in Continence Services, by up to 20 per cent. of the female population under 65 years, 40 per cent. of women aged over 65 years and between 7 to 10 per cent. of men aged over 65 years.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 736open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 23 May 2000
at end add 'and calls on the Government to declare a moratorium on further planning applications for new telecommunication masts pending the outcome of the review of planning policy announced by the Government.'.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 732open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 16 May 2000
That this House notes with concern the growing number of reported cases of inappropriate use of not for resuscitation (NFR) orders; believes that there is a gap between guidelines and practice which leaves patients and family members uninvolved in the decision to mark a patient's records 'NFR'; notes that research reported in the British Medical Journal found that two out of three patients with NFRs were not involved in the decision and that patients with NFRs were 30 times more likely to die; and calls on the Government to take urgent action to stamp out this immoral practice and issue clear instructions to the NHS on the use of not for resuscitation orders.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 604open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 April 2000
That this House notes that the Prime Minister stated before the 1997 General Election that he did not want to live in a country where pensioners are forced to sell their homes to pay for their care; is concerned that over a year has passed since the Royal Commission on Long Term Care reported; regrets that many thousands of people have had to sell their homes; and calls on the Government to reform the funding of long-term care during the life of the current Parliament by making nursing and personal care free on the basis of accessed need.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 605open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 5 April 2000
That this House notes that the 25p age addition to the basic state pension at 80 was introduced in 1971 and has been frozen at 25p ever since; further notes that it would be worth ú3.70 if it had been uprated in line with earnings; and calls on the Government to immediately uprate the aged addition as a cost effective way of directing extra help to the poorest of our pensioners.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 564open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 27 March 2000
That this House notes with concern that the current scheme for calculating the standard rate of interest for mortgage payments through income support or job seeker's allowance is inflexible and causes increased indebtedness and the threat of repossession if mortgage shortfalls cannot be made-up by the borrower; notes that it costs on average ú55.80 per week in housing benefit payments to rehouse repossessed families compared to ú38.81 per week to meet full interest costs; therefore calls on the Government to review the way the standard rate is calculated to provide greater flexibility and sensitivity to changes in interest rates; and further calls on the Government to lay the necessary regulations to increase the standard rate given that the 0.25 percentage point change required to trigger a change in the rate occurred in January.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 565open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 27 March 2000
That this House notes that back pain is the number one cause of disability in the UK costing the country over ú6 billion per annum and affecting the lives of two in five of the adult population; calls on the Government to ensure that guidance on back pain issued by the Clinical Standards Advisory Group in 1994 is followed; and further calls on the Government to issue guidance on appropriate care pathways for pain management that ensures timely diagnosis, and appropriate treatment that reduced the number of people suffering chronic back pain.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 325open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 25 January 2000
That this House regrets that Prime Minister's Question Time did not take place on 26th January 2000, the Prime Minister's 1000th day in office, that as a result the Prime Minister did not have to explain to the House why crime has risen and police numbers fallen, class sizes for the over- 8s have gone up and teacher recruitment has gone down and why the number of people waiting for outpatient appointments has doubled to 512,000 and the number of nurses has fallen by 2,500; and notes that through bungling incompetence or skilful avoidance the Prime Minister was let off the hook and honourable Members were denied the opportunity to hold him to account.
Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 303open
United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 20 January 2000
That this House is concerned to learn that the Deputy Managing Director of Connex, Oliver Brousse, misled people at a presentation of the company's Vision for the South Central Rail Franchise, which it hopes to renew in 2003; notes that he told the meeting that work was well on the way to completion at Sutton Station; regrets that since hoardings were erected in November 1999 and facilities withdrawn no work has occurred and that as a result the project is four months behind schedule and falling further behind; calls on Connex to be more candid about the reasons for delay and for senior management urgently to take the project in hand; and calls on the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions to instruct the Strategic Rail Authority to investigate the causes of delay at Sutton Station and to work with Connex and Railtrack to expedite the removal of any outstanding obstacles to commencing and rapidly completing this project.