Draft Mental Incapacity Bill (EDM278)

Draft Mental Incapacity Bill

EDM number 278 in 2003-04, proposed by Ann Winterton on 11/12/2003.

That this House notes the criticism of the Joint Committee on the Draft Mental Incapacity Bill of the failure of the Department for Constitutional Affairs to have 'adequately addressed the important, through admittedly complex, issues involving access to information to those acting on behalf of people lacking capacity' (Conclusion 97); recalls that the declared main objective of the new legislation was to improve the caring situation regarding general welfare and financial problems relating to people who become mentally incapacitated; maintains therefore, that this must be regarded as a matter of gross negligence; and calls upon the Government to ensure that when the Bill is presented to Parliament it will adequately address the general welfare and financial needs of mentally incapacitated people rather than the present draft which is being used by the euthanasia lobby as a vehicle to introduce euthanasia by omission through the withdrawal of food and fluid from patients who are not dying.

This motion has been signed by a total of 51 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Ann Winterton	11/12/2003	Congleton	Conservative	Signed
Brian Iddon	15/12/2003	Bolton South East	Labour	Signed
Simon Thomas	15/12/2003	Ceredigion	Plaid Cymru	Signed
Jim Dobbin	15/12/2003	Heywood & Middleton	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Bob Spink	16/12/2003	Castle Point	Conservative	Signed
Kevin McNamara	16/12/2003	Kingston upon Hull North	Labour	Signed
David Taylor	16/12/2003	North West Leicestershire	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Nicholas Winterton	16/12/2003	Macclesfield	Conservative	Signed
Martin Smyth	17/12/2003	Belfast South	Independent Ulster Unionist	Signed
Terry Lewis	17/12/2003	Worsley	Labour	Signed
Edward O'Hara	17/12/2003	Knowsley South	Labour	Signed
David Drew	17/12/2003	Stroud	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Eddie McGrady	05/01/2004	South Down	Social Democratic and Labour Party	Signed
Desmond Swayne	05/01/2004	New Forest West	Conservative	Signed
Mike Hancock	05/01/2004	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Paul Goodman	05/01/2004	Wycombe	Conservative	Signed
Adrian Flook	05/01/2004	Taunton	Conservative	Signed
Helen Clark	05/01/2004	Peterborough	Labour	Signed
Sydney Chapman	05/01/2004	Chipping Barnet	Conservative	Signed
Marsha Singh	05/01/2004	Bradford West	Labour	Signed
Marion Roe	05/01/2004	Broxbourne	Conservative	Signed
Bill Olner	06/01/2004	Nuneaton	Labour	Signed
Julian Brazier	06/01/2004	Canterbury	Conservative	Signed
Michael Connarty	06/01/2004	Falkirk East	Labour	Signed
Andrew Stunell	07/01/2004	Hazel Grove	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Brian Cotter	08/01/2004	Weston-Super-Mare	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Angela Watkinson	08/01/2004	Upminster	Conservative	Signed
Phil Sawford	12/01/2004	Kettering	Labour	Signed
Andrew Selous	13/01/2004	South West Bedfordshire	Conservative	Signed
Andrew Hunter	13/01/2004	Basingstoke	Independent Conservative	Signed
Denzil Davies	13/01/2004	Llanelli	Labour	Signed
Gregory Campbell	14/01/2004	East Londonderry	DUP	Signed
Nigel Dodds	14/01/2004	Belfast North	DUP	Signed
Harold Best	14/01/2004	Leeds North West	Labour	Signed
Laurence Robertson	15/01/2004	Tewkesbury	Conservative	Signed
Geraldine Smith	15/01/2004	Morecambe & Lunesdale	Labour	Signed
Robert Walter	15/01/2004	North Dorset	Conservative	Signed
Ann Widdecombe	15/01/2004	Maidstone & The Weald	Conservative	Signed
Bill Etherington	19/01/2004	Sunderland North	Labour	Signed
Teddy Taylor	21/01/2004	Rochford & Southend East	Conservative	Signed
John Randall	22/01/2004	Uxbridge	Conservative	Signed
Joe Benton	22/01/2004	Bootle	Labour	Signed
David Amess	26/01/2004	Southend West	Conservative	Signed
Tony Colman	29/01/2004	Putney	Labour	Signed
Henry Bellingham	31/03/2004	North West Norfolk	Conservative	Signed
Nigel Waterson	10/05/2004	Eastbourne	Conservative	Signed
Phil Willis	12/05/2004	Harrogate & Knaresborough	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Michael Spicer	17/05/2004	West Worcestershire	Conservative	Signed
Peter Luff	19/05/2004	Mid Worcestershire	Conservative	Signed
Howard Flight	25/05/2004	Arundel & South Downs	Conservative	Signed
Robert Wareing	08/06/2004	Liverpool, West Derby	Labour	Signed

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