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Human Growth Hormone - Cjd Litigation

EDM number 1203 in 1995-96, proposed by David Hinchliffe on 22/07/1996.

That this House, whilst welcoming the recent decision of Mr Justice Morland in the Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease litigation, nevertheless notes with concern that it was necessary for this forensic judicial inquiry to take place because of the failure of the Secretary of State for Health to order a public inquiry akin to that undertaken by the Allars Inquiry between May 1993 and June 1994 in Australia and that such a judicial inquiry into the shortcomings of the working of a branch of the Scientific Civil Service was necessitated by the absence of independent scrutiny by any Government or other watchdog of safety standards and risk management in that service; deplores the fact that such scrutiny by litigation will become rare, if not impossible in future because of changes to legal aid eligibility and cost rules set out by the Lord Chancellor's recent White Paper on The Future of Legal Aid in England and Wales; further notes that the judicial inquiry has left some of the plaintiffs without compensation for loss of loved ones at a time when the Government has promised ex gratia payments of 2.5 billion pounds to dairy farmers for the loss of their cattle from the equivalent bovine disease, BSE; and call upon the Government to make payment of an appropriate sum of compensation to all of thoe who have lost loved ones to Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease following a growth hormone treatment before 1985.

This motion has been signed by a total of 60 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
David Hinchliffe22/07/1996WakefieldProposed
Max Madden22/07/1996Bradford WestSigned
Audrey Wise22/07/1996PrestonSigned
Paul Tyler22/07/1996North CornwallSigned
Jon Trickett22/07/1996HemsworthSigned
Paddy Tipping22/07/1996SherwoodSigned
Gerry Steinberg22/07/1996Durham, City ofSigned
Harry Cohen22/07/1996LeytonSigned
Ian McCartney22/07/1996MakerfieldSigned
Andrew MacKinlay22/07/1996ThurrockSigned
Liz Lynne22/07/1996RochdaleSigned
Helen Jackson22/07/1996Sheffield, HillsboroughSigned
Martin Smyth22/07/1996Belfast SouthSigned
Llew Smith22/07/1996Blaenau GwentSigned
Terry Rooney22/07/1996Bradford NorthSigned
Alice Mahon22/07/1996HalifaxSigned
Edward O'Hara23/07/1996Knowsley SouthSigned
Keith Bradley23/07/1996Manchester, WithingtonSigned
James Callaghan23/07/1996Heywood & MiddletonSigned
Michael Clapham23/07/1996Barnsley West & PenistoneSigned
Michael Connarty23/07/1996Falkirk EastSigned
Terry Davis23/07/1996Birmingham, Hodge HillSigned
John Evans23/07/1996St Helens NorthSigned
Norman Godman23/07/1996Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
Tony Banks23/07/1996Newham North WestSigned
Harry Barnes23/07/1996North East DerbyshireSigned
Hugh Bayley23/07/1996York, City ofSigned
Alan Wynne Williams23/07/1996CarmarthenSigned
Alex Salmond23/07/1996Banff & BuchanSigned
Andrew Miller23/07/1996Ellesmere Port & NestonSigned
Colin Pickthall23/07/1996West LancashireSigned
Peter Pike23/07/1996BurnleySigned
Ernie Ross23/07/1996Dundee WestSigned
Dennis Skinner23/07/1996BolsoverSigned
Lynne Jones23/07/1996Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
Ken Livingstone23/07/1996Brent EastSigned
Tony Lloyd23/07/1996StretfordSigned
John McAllion23/07/1996Dundee EastSigned
William McKelvey23/07/1996Kilmarnock & LoudounSigned
Bill Michie23/07/1996Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Kenneth Eastham24/07/1996Manchester, BlackleySigned
Dennis Turner24/07/1996Wolverhampton South EastSigned
Jack Thompson24/07/1996WansbeckSigned
Win Griffiths24/07/1996BridgendSigned
Neil Gerrard24/07/1996WalthamstowSigned
Bill Etherington24/07/1996Sunderland NorthSigned
Angela Eagle24/07/1996WallaseySigned
John Cummings24/07/1996EasingtonSigned
David Chidgey24/07/1996EastleighSigned
Russell Johnston24/07/1996Inverness, Nairn and LochaberSigned
Robert Parry14/10/1996Liverpool, RiversideSigned
Joyce Quin14/10/1996Gateshead EastSigned
George Howarth14/10/1996Knowsley NorthSigned
Eric Illsley14/10/1996Barnsley CentralSigned
Tony Benn14/10/1996ChesterfieldSigned
John Heppell15/10/1996Nottingham EastSigned
Ray Michie15/10/1996Argyll & ButeSigned
Rachel Squire16/10/1996Dunfermline WestSigned
Tommy Graham16/10/1996Renfrew West and InverclydeSigned
John Gunnell16/10/1996Leeds South and MorleySigned

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