Diabetes Drug Avandia
EDM number 761 in 2010-12, proposed by Jim Dobbin on 16/09/2010.
Categorised under the topics of Diseases and Medicine.
That this House compliments BBC Panorama and reporter Shelley Jofre for exposing the dangers of GlaxoSmithKline's diabetes drug Avandia; regrets the heart attacks and strokes as side effects of Avandia suffered by thousands of patients; deplores the negligence of the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in again withholding safety information from patients; requests Sir Alasdair Breckenridge, Chairman of MHRA and former member of a scientific advisory board at GlaxoSmithKline, to consider his position; and calls on the Department of Health to implement the recommendations of the 2004-05 Health Select Committee Report on the Influence of the Pharmaceutical Industry and in particular its recommendation for an independent review of the MHRA.
This motion has been signed by a total of 17 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.
| MP | Date | Constituency | Party | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jim Dobbin | 16/09/2010 | Heywood and Middleton | Labour | Proposed |
| Adrian Sanders | 11/10/2010 | Torbay | Liberal Democrat | Seconded |
| Martin Caton | 12/10/2010 | Gower | Labour | Seconded |
| David Simpson | 12/10/2010 | Upper Bann | DUP | Seconded |
| Kelvin Hopkins | 12/10/2010 | Luton North | Labour | Seconded |
| Mike Hancock | 12/10/2010 | Portsmouth South | Liberal Democrat | Seconded |
| Paul Flynn | 13/10/2010 | Newport West | Labour | Signed |
| Keith Vaz | 13/10/2010 | Leicester East | Labour | Signed |
| Jeremy Corbyn | 13/10/2010 | Islington North | Labour | Signed |
| William McCrea | 13/10/2010 | South Antrim | DUP | Signed |
| Alan Meale | 14/10/2010 | Mansfield | Labour | Signed |
| Annette Brooke | 14/10/2010 | Mid Dorset and North Poole | Liberal Democrat | Signed |
| Andrew George | 14/10/2010 | St Ives | Liberal Democrat | Signed |
| Virendra Sharma | 18/10/2010 | Ealing, Southall | Labour | Signed |
| John McDonnell | 25/10/2010 | Hayes and Harlington | Labour | Signed |
| Eric Illsley | 28/10/2010 | Barnsley Central | Labour | Withdrawn |
| Gregory Campbell | 09/12/2010 | East Londonderry | DUP | Signed |
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