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Meningitis B: Beat It Now Campaign

EDM number 1115 in 2012-13, proposed by Mark Durkan on 26/02/2013.
Categorised under the topics of Diseases and Vaccination.

That this House notes that a new vaccine against meningitis B has now been licensed for use in the UK; celebrates this medical breakthrough with the potential to save thousands of lives especially among children aged under five; recognises that the vaccine's optimum impact would be achieved by its inclusion in the Routine Child Immunisation Schedule of the NHS; recalls that the last major vaccine against a form of meningitis, the pneumococcal vaccine, took some five years to get into the schedule; applauds Meningitis UK's campaign Meningitis B: Beat It Now highlighting the important opportunity to prevent the devastating impact of the most common form of meningitis in the UK; salutes the valiant and generous campaigning efforts of families and individuals who have suffered its traumatic effects including the death of a child, limb loss or brain damage; encourages the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation to give timely and positive consideration to the new vaccine's inclusion in the schedule; and looks forward to Ministers being able to act decisively on their advice this year.

This motion has been signed by a total of 27 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Mark Durkan26/02/2013FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartyProposed
Margaret Ritchie26/02/2013South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySeconded
Jim Shannon27/02/2013StrangfordDUPSeconded
Alan Meale27/02/2013MansfieldLabourSeconded
Tony Cunningham27/02/2013WorkingtonLabourSeconded
Virendra Sharma27/02/2013Ealing, SouthallLabourSeconded
David Simpson27/02/2013Upper BannDUPSigned
Alasdair McDonnell27/02/2013Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Jim Dobbin27/02/2013Heywood and MiddletonLabourSigned
Andrew George27/02/2013St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
David Anderson28/02/2013BlaydonLabourSigned
George Galloway28/02/2013Bradford WestRespectSigned
Jeremy Corbyn28/02/2013Islington NorthLabourSigned
Martin Caton28/02/2013GowerLabourSigned
Peter Bottomley01/03/2013Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Kelvin Hopkins04/03/2013Luton NorthLabourSigned
Annette Brooke04/03/2013Mid Dorset and North PooleLiberal DemocratSigned
Frank Dobson04/03/2013Holborn and St PancrasLabourSigned
Mike Hancock04/03/2013Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Mary Glindon04/03/2013North TynesideLabourSigned
Steve Rotheram04/03/2013Liverpool, WaltonLabourSigned
George Howarth06/03/2013KnowsleyLabourSigned
Naomi Long07/03/2013Belfast EastAllianceSigned
John Leech07/03/2013Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
George Mudie25/03/2013Leeds EastLabourSigned
David Crausby10/04/2013Bolton North EastLabourSigned
Ian Lavery10/04/2013WansbeckLabourSigned

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