Care Homes And The Honourable Member For South Thanet And The Right Honourable Member For Darlington (EDM927)

Care Homes And The Honourable Member For South Thanet And The Right Honourable Member For Darlington

EDM number 927 in 2003-04, proposed by Tim Yeo on 29/03/2004.

That this House condemns the description made by the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health with responsibility for long-term care, the honourable Member for South Thanet, that too much of the residential care homes business still has a 'workhouse mentality', where older people are seen as 'a commodity to be managed until they die', as reported in the Financial Times on Monday 22nd March; recognises that the vast majority of people who work in the long-term care sector do so entirely honourably as they tirelessly and selflessly dedicate their time and energies to working with some of the most vulnerable and frail members of society; denounces the Government's continued contempt for the long-term care sector as substantiated by those comments in addition to the previous comment made by the honourable Member for South Thanet that 'there is no national crisis in the sector' and comments made by the former Secretary of State for Health, the Right honourable Member for Darlington, who remarked on elderly people being 'banged up in a care home'; finds these appalling comments utterly degrading and demeaning to those who work with great dedication in the long-term care sector; and believes that the long-term sector deserves more from its Ministers.

This motion has been signed by a total of 65 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Tim Yeo	29/03/2004	South Suffolk	Conservative	Proposed
Andrew Lansley	29/03/2004	South Cambridgeshire	Conservative	Signed
Tim Loughton	29/03/2004	East Worthing & Shoreham	Conservative	Signed
Andrew Murrison	29/03/2004	Westbury	Conservative	Signed
Simon Burns	29/03/2004	West Chelmsford	Conservative	Signed
John Baron	29/03/2004	Billericay	Conservative	Signed
Bob Spink	30/03/2004	Castle Point	Conservative	Signed
Mike Hancock	30/03/2004	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Nigel Waterson	30/03/2004	Eastbourne	Conservative	Signed
David Wilshire	30/03/2004	Spelthorne	Conservative	Signed
Peter Luff	31/03/2004	Mid Worcestershire	Conservative	Signed
Edward Garnier	31/03/2004	Harborough	Conservative	Signed
Iris Robinson	31/03/2004	Strangford	DUP	Signed
Desmond Swayne	01/04/2004	New Forest West	Conservative	Signed
Hugo Swire	01/04/2004	East Devon	Conservative	Signed
Peter Bottomley	01/04/2004	Worthing West	Conservative	Signed
Tim Boswell	01/04/2004	Daventry	Conservative	Signed
David Amess	01/04/2004	Southend West	Conservative	Signed
Peter Ainsworth	01/04/2004	East Surrey	Conservative	Signed
James Gray	01/04/2004	North Wiltshire	Conservative	Signed
Paul Goodman	01/04/2004	Wycombe	Conservative	Signed
Mark Francois	01/04/2004	Rayleigh	Conservative	Signed
Mark Field	01/04/2004	Cities of London & Westminster	Conservative	Signed
Anne McIntosh	01/04/2004	Vale of York	Conservative	Signed
Theresa May	01/04/2004	Maidenhead	Conservative	Signed
David Maclean	01/04/2004	Penrith & The Border	Conservative	Signed
Julian Lewis	01/04/2004	New Forest East	Conservative	Signed
Julie Kirkbride	01/04/2004	Bromsgrove	Conservative	Signed
John Horam	01/04/2004	Orpington	Conservative	Signed
Nick Hawkins	01/04/2004	Surrey Heath	Conservative	Signed
Andrew Rosindell	01/04/2004	Romford	Conservative	Signed
Laurence Robertson	01/04/2004	Tewkesbury	Conservative	Signed
Mark Prisk	01/04/2004	Hertford & Stortford	Conservative	Signed
George Osborne	01/04/2004	Tatton	Conservative	Signed
Richard Bacon	19/04/2004	South Norfolk	Conservative	Signed
Philip Hammond	19/04/2004	Runnymede & Weybridge	Conservative	Signed
John Greenway	19/04/2004	Ryedale	Conservative	Signed
Howard Flight	19/04/2004	Arundel & South Downs	Conservative	Signed
Alan Duncan	19/04/2004	Rutland & Melton	Conservative	Signed
Humfrey Malins	19/04/2004	Woking	Conservative	Signed
Eleanor Laing	19/04/2004	Epping Forest	Conservative	Signed
Andrew Selous	19/04/2004	South West Bedfordshire	Conservative	Signed
Jonathan Sayeed	19/04/2004	Mid Bedfordshire	Conservative	Signed
John Randall	19/04/2004	Uxbridge	Conservative	Signed
Malcolm Moss	19/04/2004	North East Cambridgeshire	Conservative	Signed
Bill Wiggin	20/04/2004	Leominster	Conservative	Signed
Angela Watkinson	21/04/2004	Upminster	Conservative	Signed
Adrian Flook	22/04/2004	Taunton	Conservative	Signed
John Whittingdale	22/04/2004	Maldon & East Chelmsford	Conservative	Signed
Oliver Letwin	27/04/2004	West Dorset	Conservative	Signed
Michael Fabricant	27/04/2004	Lichfield	Conservative	Signed
Cheryl Gillan	28/04/2004	Chesham & Amersham	Conservative	Signed
Gary Streeter	28/04/2004	South West Devon	Conservative	Signed
Oliver Heald	28/04/2004	North East Hertfordshire	Conservative	Signed
Andrew Hunter	29/04/2004	Basingstoke	Independent Conservative	Signed
Chris Grayling	04/05/2004	Epsom & Ewell	Conservative	Signed
Charles Hendry	05/05/2004	Wealden	Conservative	Signed
Caroline Spelman	06/05/2004	Meriden	Conservative	Signed
Patrick Mercer	06/05/2004	Newark	Conservative	Signed
Julian Brazier	06/05/2004	Canterbury	Conservative	Signed
Graham Brady	17/05/2004	Altrincham & Sale West	Conservative	Signed
John Bercow	26/05/2004	Buckingham	Conservative	Signed
Peter Duncan	16/06/2004	Galloway & Upper Nithsdale	Conservative	Signed
Stephen O'Brien	22/07/2004	Eddisbury	Conservative	Signed
Nigel Evans	01/11/2004	Ribble Valley	Conservative	Signed

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