Voicebox Joke Competition

EDM number 1127 in 2016-17, proposed by Kirsten Oswald on 29/03/2017.
Categorised under the topics of Children and families and Special educational needs.

That this House recognises the importance of communication skills and confidence-building in improving the life changes, self esteem and opportunities for young people; understands the value of joke-telling in enhancing these attributes; applauds the work of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists and the Communication Trust in harnessing this enjoyable method of communication development; and wholeheartedly congratulates the excellent finalists Colm Donnelly, of St Cadoc's Primary School and Cameron Rose of Renton Primary School; and is delighted by the success of the outstanding winner and funniest child in the country, Sam Hamilton of Giffnock Primary School.

This motion has been signed by a total of 17 MPs.