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Dietary Supplements

EDM number 520 in 1996-97, proposed by Peter Hain on 12/02/1997.

That this House notes that millions of United Kingdom consumers regularly take vitamin, mineral and other dietary supplements either to promote their overall health and well-being, or to tackle specific nutritional deficiencies; welcomes the contribution to public health and to reducing demands upon the National Health Service which such supplementation has made and reiterates its view that consumers should continue to have access to dietary supplements of their choice provided there is no safety risk; notes that such a safety-based approach remains the basis of British Government policy and believes that such access should be available to all European consumers within the Single Market; looks forward to the publication in the near future of a European Commission consultation document which could ultimately give rise to a new draft directive on dietary supplements; fears that other member governments of the European Union may use that opportunity once again to argue for a ban on the sale of safe higher dose supplements currently available in the United Kingdom; and urges Her Majesty's Government and consumers of dietary supplements in other European countries to press now for a European Union-wide policy that supplements should be available to consumers provided there is no known safety risk.

This motion has been signed by a total of 43 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Peter Hain12/02/1997NeathProposed
David Nicholson12/02/1997TauntonSigned
David Tredinnick12/02/1997BosworthSigned
Nicholas Winterton12/02/1997MacclesfieldSigned
Dennis Turner13/02/1997Wolverhampton South EastSigned
John Battle13/02/1997Leeds WestSigned
Tony Banks13/02/1997Newham North WestSigned
Win Griffiths13/02/1997BridgendSigned
Alice Mahon13/02/1997HalifaxSigned
Ken Livingstone13/02/1997Brent EastSigned
Tom Cox14/02/1997TootingSigned
Ann Winterton14/02/1997CongletonSigned
Peter Hardy17/02/1997WentworthSigned
David Knox17/02/1997Staffordshire MoorlandsSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe17/02/1997LeighSigned
Norman Godman18/02/1997Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
Michael Connarty18/02/1997Falkirk EastSigned
Bill Cash18/02/1997StaffordSigned
Elfyn Llwyd18/02/1997Meirionnydd Nant ConwySigned
Eric Illsley18/02/1997Barnsley CentralSigned
Martin Smyth18/02/1997Belfast SouthSigned
Bill Michie18/02/1997Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Nick Harvey19/02/1997North DevonSigned
Michael Clapham19/02/1997Barnsley West & PenistoneSigned
Jean Corston19/02/1997Bristol EastSigned
Roy Beggs19/02/1997East AntrimSigned
Dafydd Wigley19/02/1997CaernarfonSigned
Ian Davidson20/02/1997Glasgow, GovanSigned
Audrey Wise20/02/1997PrestonSigned
Eric Clarke20/02/1997MidlothianSigned
Richard Burden20/02/1997Birmingham, NorthfieldSigned
Alan Meale20/02/1997MansfieldSigned
Mike Hall24/02/1997Warrington SouthSigned
Mike Gapes04/03/1997Ilford SouthSigned
John Gunnell05/03/1997Leeds South and MorleySigned
John Wilkinson06/03/1997Ruislip - NorthwoodSigned
David Hinchliffe12/03/1997WakefieldSigned
James Pawsey17/03/1997Rugby & KenilworthSigned
Ian Pearson18/03/1997Dudley WestSigned
Martyn Jones18/03/1997Clwyd South WestSigned
Menzies Campbell18/03/1997Fife North EastSigned
Simon Hughes20/03/1997Southwark and BermondseySigned
Andrew Hunter20/03/1997BasingstokeSigned

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