Gloucestershire County Association For The Blind (EDM1640)

Gloucestershire County Association For The Blind

EDM number 1640 in 2003-04, proposed by Laurence Robertson on 13/09/2004.

That this House notes that 312,000 people are registered as blind or partially-sighted in England, 69 per cent. of whom are over 75 years of age; congratulates the Gloucestershire County Association for the Blind (GCAB) on its outstanding work as the oldest and largest charity working for the visually impaired in Gloucestershire; recognises that approximately 3,000 visually impaired people are supported through GCAB's visiting service and that its volunteers work at 600 hospital clinics annually; welcomes GCAB's Re-launch Week from 18th to 26th September; and calls on the Government to ensure that every effort is made to secure equality of access to services for visually impaired people under the Disability Discrimination Act.

This motion has been signed by a total of 33 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Laurence Robertson	13/09/2004	Tewkesbury	Conservative	Proposed
Bob Spink	14/09/2004	Castle Point	Conservative	Signed
Ann Cryer	14/09/2004	Keighley	Labour	Signed
Nigel Jones	14/09/2004	Cheltenham	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Lindsay Hoyle	14/09/2004	Chorley	Labour	Signed
Nigel Dodds	15/09/2004	Belfast North	DUP	Signed
Lynne Jones	16/09/2004	Birmingham, Selly Oak	Labour	Signed
John McDonnell	16/09/2004	Hayes & Harlington	Labour	Signed
Jim Dobbin	16/09/2004	Heywood & Middleton	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Huw Edwards	16/09/2004	Monmouth	Labour	Signed
Jeff Ennis	16/09/2004	Barnsley East & Mexborough	Labour	Signed
Harry Barnes	16/09/2004	North East Derbyshire	Labour	Signed
Paul Tyler	16/09/2004	North Cornwall	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Virginia Bottomley	11/10/2004	South West Surrey	Conservative	Signed
David Drew	11/10/2004	Stroud	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Diana Organ	11/10/2004	Forest of Dean	Labour	Signed
Paul Marsden	11/10/2004	Shrewsbury & Atcham	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Paul Holmes	11/10/2004	Chesterfield	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Alan Simpson	11/10/2004	Nottingham South	Labour	Signed
Parmjit Dhanda	11/10/2004	Gloucester	Labour	Signed
Greg Pope	12/10/2004	Hyndburn	Labour	Signed
Iris Robinson	12/10/2004	Strangford	DUP	Signed
Julian Lewis	12/10/2004	New Forest East	Conservative	Signed
Paul Keetch	13/10/2004	Hereford	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Gregory Campbell	13/10/2004	East Londonderry	DUP	Signed
Roy Beggs	13/10/2004	East Antrim	UUP	Signed
Harold Best	13/10/2004	Leeds North West	Labour	Signed
Jeremy Corbyn	14/10/2004	Islington North	Labour	Signed
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown	18/10/2004	Cotswold	Conservative	Signed
Bill Etherington	21/10/2004	Sunderland North	Labour	Signed
Rudi Vis	10/11/2004	Finchley & Golders Green	Labour	Signed
Matthew Green	15/11/2004	Ludlow	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Doug Naysmith	16/11/2004	Bristol North West	Labour Co-operative	Signed

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