Text Message 999 Service (EDM68)

Text Message 999 Service

EDM number 68 in 2008-09, proposed by Adrian Sanders on 03/12/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Emergency services and Telecommunications.

That this House notes that there is no facility to allow people to use text messages to contact blue light emergency services and believes that such a service could assist people needing to contact the emergency services while unable to speak; and calls on the Government to encourage the mobile telephone industry to come up with a text message 999 number through which blue light emergency services can be contacted.

This motion has been signed by a total of 41 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Adrian Sanders	03/12/2008	Torbay	Liberal Democrat	Proposed
Andrew George	03/12/2008	St Ives	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Peter Bottomley	03/12/2008	Worthing West	Conservative	Seconded
Lynne Jones	04/12/2008	Birmingham, Selly Oak	Labour	Seconded
Colin Breed	04/12/2008	South East Cornwall	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Paul Holmes	04/12/2008	Chesterfield	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Andrew Dismore	04/12/2008	Hendon	Labour	Signed
Jeremy Corbyn	08/12/2008	Islington North	Labour	Signed
Mark Hunter	08/12/2008	Cheadle	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Dan Rogerson	08/12/2008	North Cornwall	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Mike Hancock	08/12/2008	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Ann Cryer	08/12/2008	Keighley	Labour	Signed
Annette Brooke	08/12/2008	Mid Dorset and North Poole	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John McDonnell	08/12/2008	Hayes and Harlington	Labour	Signed
Elfyn Llwyd	08/12/2008	Meirionnydd Nant Conwy	Plaid Cymru	Signed
Evan Harris	08/12/2008	Oxford West and Abingdon	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Mark Durkan	09/12/2008	Foyle	Social Democratic and Labour Party	Signed
Hywel Williams	09/12/2008	Caernarfon	Plaid Cymru	Signed
Willie Rennie	10/12/2008	Dunfermline and West Fife	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Jo Swinson	10/12/2008	East Dunbartonshire	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Martin Caton	10/12/2008	Gower	Labour	Signed
William McCrea	10/12/2008	South Antrim	DUP	Signed
Nick Harvey	10/12/2008	North Devon	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Philip Davies	10/12/2008	Shipley	Conservative	Signed
Brian Jenkins	11/12/2008	Tamworth	Labour	Signed
John Hemming	11/12/2008	Birmingham, Yardley	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Don Foster	15/12/2008	Bath	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Rudi Vis	15/12/2008	Finchley and Golders Green	Labour	Signed
Frank Cook	16/12/2008	Stockton North	Labour	Signed
Andrew Pelling	16/12/2008	Croydon Central	Independent	Signed
Tom Brake	17/12/2008	Carshalton and Wallington	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Gregory Campbell	17/12/2008	East Londonderry	DUP	Signed
Christopher Huhne	17/12/2008	Eastleigh	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Simon Hughes	18/12/2008	North Southwark and Bermondsey	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Paul Burstow	18/12/2008	Sutton and Cheam	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Chris McCafferty	12/01/2009	Calder Valley	Labour	Signed
Sammy Wilson	12/01/2009	East Antrim	DUP	Signed
Paul Rowen	12/01/2009	Rochdale	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Marsha Singh	13/01/2009	Bradford West	Labour	Signed
Adam Price	26/01/2009	Carmarthen East and Dinefwr	Plaid Cymru	Signed
Michael Jabez Foster	Unknown			Withdrawn

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