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Numbers Of The Imprisoned Mentally Ill

EDM number 1009 in 1994-95, proposed by Paul Flynn on 20/04/1995.

That this House call for an investigation of the astonishing fivefold increase, from 141 to 776, in eight years in the number of prisoners transferred to mental institutions; notes that the main increase coincides with new Care in the Community policies and involves prisoners awaiting sentence; and regrets the additional gratuitious suffering inflicted on thousands of sick and confused people.

This motion has been signed by a total of 40 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Paul Flynn20/04/1995Newport WestProposed
Nick Ainger20/04/1995PembrokeSigned
Bill Michie21/04/1995Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Tom Cox21/04/1995TootingSigned
Norman Godman21/04/1995Greenock and Port GlasgowSigned
Clive Soley24/04/1995HammersmithSigned
Kim Howells24/04/1995PontypriddSigned
Keith Bradley24/04/1995Manchester, WithingtonSigned
Tom Clarke24/04/1995Monklands WestSigned
Paddy Tipping24/04/1995SherwoodSigned
Lynne Jones25/04/1995Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
Alan Williams25/04/1995Swansea WestSigned
Don Touhig25/04/1995IslwynSigned
John Battle25/04/1995Leeds WestSigned
John Cummings25/04/1995EasingtonSigned
Michael Connarty25/04/1995Falkirk EastSigned
Eric Clarke25/04/1995MidlothianSigned
Alan Meale25/04/1995MansfieldSigned
Terry Patchett25/04/1995Barnsley EastSigned
Edward O'Hara26/04/1995Knowsley SouthSigned
Mike Hall26/04/1995Warrington SouthSigned
John Evans26/04/1995St Helens NorthSigned
Eddie Loyden26/04/1995Liverpool, GarstonSigned
Jean Corston26/04/1995Bristol EastSigned
Colin Pickthall27/04/1995West LancashireSigned
Alan Simpson27/04/1995Nottingham SouthSigned
Ken Livingstone27/04/1995Brent EastSigned
Jim Dowd27/04/1995Lewisham WestSigned
Diane Abbott27/04/1995Hackney North & Stoke NewingtonSigned
Andrew MacKinlay28/04/1995ThurrockSigned
Roland Boyes28/04/1995Houghton and WashingtonSigned
Peter Hardy01/05/1995WentworthSigned
Martyn Jones02/05/1995Clwyd South WestSigned
Jack Thompson02/05/1995WansbeckSigned
Robert Parry04/05/1995Liverpool, RiversideSigned
Terry Davis10/05/1995Birmingham, Hodge HillSigned
Nick Harvey15/05/1995North DevonSigned
Nigel Jones16/05/1995CheltenhamSigned
John Heppell23/05/1995Nottingham EastSigned
Harry BarnesUnknownWithdrawn

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