Parliament Website

Pharmaceutical Wholesale Distribution

EDM number 615 in 2006-07, proposed by Eric Illsley on 11/01/2007.

That this House is concerned at recent moves by pharmaceutical manufacturers, including Pfizer, Astra Zeneca and others, to exercise greater control over the demand and supply of their products throughout the United Kingdom; believes that the existing full-line wholesaling sector, largely on behalf of the National Health Service, has successfully distributed any medicine to any pharmacy, hospital or dispensing doctor, as required, since the creation of the NHS; is accordingly very concerned that these developments by pharmaceutical manufacturers could have a detrimental effect on the ability of patients to receive their medicines when needed; considers that this could be particularly relevant when coping with emergencies, such as during a flu pandemic or after a terrorist attack; notes that supply co-operation between wholesalers has so far provided a resilience and robustness for NHS pharmaceutical supplies which is now under threat; and calls on the Office of Fair Trading and the Department of Health urgently to investigate the effects of these proposals on the daily supply of life-saving medicines to patients in the UK, before a patient unnecessarily goes without a medicine.

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

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Eric Illsley11/01/2007Barnsley CentralLabourProposed
Bob Russell11/01/2007ColchesterLiberal DemocratSeconded
Peter Bottomley15/01/2007Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Glenda Jackson15/01/2007Hampstead and HighgateLabourSeconded
Jim Dobbin15/01/2007Heywood and MiddletonLabourSeconded
Andrew Dismore15/01/2007HendonLabourSeconded
Mike Hancock15/01/2007Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Albert Owen16/01/2007Ynys MLabourSigned
Michael Penning16/01/2007Hemel HempsteadConservativeSigned
David Taylor16/01/2007North West LeicestershireLabourSigned
Paul Flynn16/01/2007Newport WestLabourSigned
Mark Durkan16/01/2007FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Janet Dean16/01/2007BurtonLabourSigned
Martin Caton16/01/2007GowerLabourSigned
Gregory Campbell16/01/2007East LondonderryDUPSigned
Alan Meale16/01/2007MansfieldLabourSigned
Chris McCafferty16/01/2007Calder ValleyLabourSigned
Lynne Jones16/01/2007Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Helen Jones16/01/2007Warrington NorthLabourSigned
David Hamilton17/01/2007MidlothianLabourSigned
Michael Weir17/01/2007AngusScottish National PartySigned
Rudi Vis17/01/2007Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn17/01/2007Islington NorthLabourSigned
Doug Naysmith17/01/2007Bristol North WestLabourSigned
William McCrea17/01/2007South AntrimDUPSigned
Paul Holmes17/01/2007ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSigned
David Simpson17/01/2007Upper BannDUPSigned
Derek Conway17/01/2007Old Bexley & SidcupConservativeSigned
Alan Simpson18/01/2007Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Lindsay Hoyle18/01/2007ChorleyLabourSigned
Rob Marris18/01/2007Wolverhampton South WestLabourSigned
Edward O'Hara18/01/2007Knowsley SouthLabourSigned
Jeff Ennis18/01/2007Barnsley East and MexboroughLabourSigned
Sammy Wilson18/01/2007East AntrimDUPSigned
Jim McGovern18/01/2007Dundee WestLabourSigned
Janet Anderson19/01/2007Rossendale and DarwenLabourSigned
Nick Harvey22/01/2007North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
David Anderson22/01/2007BlaydonLabourSigned
Mohammad Sarwar22/01/2007Glasgow CentralLabourSigned
Andrew Stunell24/01/2007Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
John Hemming24/01/2007Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Greg Pope25/01/2007HyndburnLabourSigned
Nigel Dodds25/01/2007Belfast NorthDUPSigned
David Heyes29/01/2007Ashton-under-LyneLabourSigned
Vincent Cable29/01/2007TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Willie Rennie31/01/2007Dunfermline and West FifeLiberal DemocratSigned
Stephen Hepburn01/02/2007JarrowLabourSigned
Alasdair McDonnell01/02/2007Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Bill Etherington01/02/2007Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins06/02/2007TamworthLabourSigned
Angus Robertson10/05/2007MorayScottish National PartySigned

Download raw data as csv or xml.