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Touching Tiny Lives Campaign And Pre-Term Birth

EDM number 1762 in 2006-07, proposed by Stewart Jackson on 25/06/2007.

That this House congratulates the charity Action Medical Research on having raised £2.5 million for its Touching Tiny Lives campaign to fund high-quality research to help sick and vulnerable babies; notes with alarm that pre-term birth is the single biggest cause of death in babies and a major cause of lifelong disease and disability; regrets that more than 25 babies die each week in the United Kingdom as a result of being born too early; believes that the Government must give a higher priority to finding ways of preventing pre-term birth with the aim of reducing the number of these deaths and the incidence of lifelong disability; acknowledges that reducing the incidence of pre-term birth would lessen the emotional toll on families and the burden on the NHS; recognises that in 2004-05 the Government, through the Medical Research Council (MRC) and NHS Research and Development, allocated £3.7 million to research into preventing premature birth, which represents less than 0.3 per cent. of the combined MRC/NHS biomedical research budget; and calls on the Government to review the funding it provides for medical research into preventing pregnancy complications and pre-term birth to ensure that more babies have the opportunity to live longer, healthier lives.

This motion has been signed by a total of 76 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Stewart Jackson25/06/2007PeterboroughConservativeProposed
Bob Russell25/06/2007ColchesterLiberal DemocratSeconded
Bob Spink26/06/2007Castle PointConservativeSeconded
Peter Bottomley26/06/2007Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Nicholas Winterton26/06/2007MacclesfieldConservativeSeconded
Ann Cryer26/06/2007KeighleyLabourSeconded
Derek Conway26/06/2007Old Bexley & SidcupConservativeSigned
David Drew26/06/2007StroudLabourSigned
Mark Durkan26/06/2007FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Janet Dean27/06/2007BurtonLabourSigned
Mark Williams27/06/2007CeredigionLiberal DemocratSigned
Daniel Kawczynski27/06/2007Shrewsbury and AtchamConservativeSigned
Philip Davies27/06/2007ShipleyConservativeSigned
Michael Weir27/06/2007AngusScottish National PartySigned
Brian Jenkins27/06/2007TamworthLabourSigned
John Pugh28/06/2007SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
Harry Cohen28/06/2007Leyton and WansteadLabourSigned
Mark Hunter28/06/2007CheadleLiberal DemocratSigned
Betty Williams02/07/2007ConwyLabourSigned
Andrew Stunell02/07/2007Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Fallon02/07/2007SevenoaksConservativeSigned
Brian H Donohoe02/07/2007Central AyrshireLabourSigned
Mike Hancock02/07/2007Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Gregory Campbell03/07/2007East LondonderryDUPSigned
Andrew George03/07/2007St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Lee Scott03/07/2007Ilford NorthConservativeSigned
Jim Devine03/07/2007LivingstonLabourSigned
David Amess04/07/2007Southend WestConservativeSigned
Michael Penning04/07/2007Hemel HempsteadConservativeSigned
Hywel Francis04/07/2007AberavonLabourSigned
Nigel Evans04/07/2007Ribble ValleyConservativeSigned
Edward Davey04/07/2007Kingston and SurbitonLiberal DemocratSigned
Malcolm Moss04/07/2007North East CambridgeshireConservativeSigned
David Simpson04/07/2007Upper BannDUPSigned
Greg Pope05/07/2007HyndburnLabourSigned
Nicholas Soames05/07/2007Mid SussexConservativeSigned
Alasdair McDonnell05/07/2007Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Desmond Turner05/07/2007Brighton, KemptownLabourSigned
Eddie McGrady09/07/2007South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Stephen Hammond09/07/2007WimbledonConservativeSigned
Phil Willis09/07/2007Harrogate and KnaresboroughLiberal DemocratSigned
Mark Todd09/07/2007South DerbyshireLabourSigned
John Thurso09/07/2007Caithness, Sutherland and Easter RossLiberal DemocratSigned
Howard Stoate09/07/2007DartfordLabourSigned
John Bercow09/07/2007BuckinghamConservativeSigned
Ian Gibson09/07/2007Norwich NorthLabourSigned
Bill Etherington09/07/2007Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Ronnie Campbell09/07/2007Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
John Butterfill09/07/2007Bournemouth WestConservativeSigned
Annette Brooke09/07/2007Mid Dorset and North PooleLiberal DemocratSigned
Sandra Gidley09/07/2007RomseyLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Truswell10/07/2007PudseyLabourSigned
Richard Younger-Ross11/07/2007TeignbridgeLiberal DemocratSigned
George Howarth12/07/2007Knowsley North and Sefton EastLabourSigned
Diane Abbott12/07/2007Hackney North and Stoke NewingtonLabourSigned
Janet Anderson12/07/2007Rossendale and DarwenLabourSigned
Roger Berry12/07/2007KingswoodLabourSigned
John Hemming12/07/2007Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Lynne Featherstone12/07/2007Hornsey and Wood GreenLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew Love16/07/2007EdmontonLabourSigned
John Leech16/07/2007Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Patrick Hall16/07/2007BedfordLabourSigned
David Laws16/07/2007YeovilLiberal DemocratSigned
David Anderson18/07/2007BlaydonLabourSigned
Helen Southworth19/07/2007Warrington SouthLabourSigned
John Austin23/07/2007Erith and ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Steve Webb24/07/2007NorthavonLiberal DemocratSigned
John McDonnell25/07/2007Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Nicholas Clegg25/07/2007Sheffield, HallamLiberal DemocratSigned
Colin Burgon08/10/2007ElmetLabourSigned
James Arbuthnot08/10/2007North East HampshireConservativeSigned
Greg Mulholland16/10/2007Leeds North WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Anne Moffat24/10/2007East LothianLabourSigned
Nigel Dodds24/10/2007Belfast NorthDUPSigned
David Curry25/10/2007Skipton and RiponConservativeSigned
Paul Rowen29/10/2007RochdaleLiberal DemocratSigned

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