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Vitamin B6

EDM number 209 in 1997-98, proposed by Ann Winterton on 07/07/1997.

That this House notes that millions of United Kingdom consumers regularly take higher dose supplements of vitamin B6 both to promote their overall health and wellbeing and to tackle specific nutritional deficiencies; observes that such products have an excellent safety record and that they are widely believed to be efficacious in a wide range of conditions including, according to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, helping with the effects of pre-menstrual tension; further notes that the validity of any recent work challenging the safety of higher dose B6 products has been called extensively into question as being based upon fundamentally flawed studies; regrets that the extensive scientific literature supporting the claims of safety of B6 was not considered fully by the Food Advisory Committee prior to its previous discussions on such matters; observes that any proposed ban on the sales of higher dose B6 supplements, if based upon flawed information, would deny millions of consumers access to safe products of their choice and would adversely affect public health; urges the Minister of State for Food Safety to consult further about this proposal before reaching any final decision; and invites him to defend consumers' continuing rights of access to such safe products of their choice.

This motion has been signed by a total of 111 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Ann Winterton07/07/1997CongletonConservativeSigned
David Tredinnick07/07/1997BosworthConservativeSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe08/07/1997LeighLabourSigned
Jackie Ballard08/07/1997TauntonLiberal DemocratSigned
Roy Beggs08/07/1997East AntrimUUPSigned
Martin Smyth09/07/1997Belfast SouthUUPSigned
Michael Colvin09/07/1997RomseyConservativeSigned
Mike Hancock09/07/1997Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Gerry Steinberg09/07/1997Durham, City ofLabourSigned
Bill Etherington10/07/1997Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Audrey Wise14/07/1997PrestonLabourSigned
Frank Cook15/07/1997Stockton NorthLabourSigned
David Crausby15/07/1997Bolton North EastLabourSigned
Bruce George15/07/1997Walsall SouthLabourSigned
Harry Barnes15/07/1997North East DerbyshireLabourSigned
Desmond Swayne15/07/1997New Forest WestConservativeSigned
Jenny Tonge15/07/1997Richmond ParkLiberal DemocratSigned
Piara S Khabra16/07/1997Ealing, SouthallLabourSigned
Alice Mahon16/07/1997HalifaxLabourSigned
Michael Clapham16/07/1997Barnsley West & PenistoneLabourSigned
Roseanna Cunningham16/07/1997PerthScottish National PartySigned
Huw Edwards16/07/1997MonmouthLabourSigned
Richard Allan16/07/1997Sheffield, HallamLiberal DemocratSigned
John Austin16/07/1997Erith & ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Nigel Jones17/07/1997CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Tommy Graham17/07/1997West RenfrewshireLabourSigned
Gerry Sutcliffe17/07/1997Bradford SouthLabourSigned
Teddy Taylor17/07/1997Rochford & Southend EastConservativeSigned
Kerry Pollard18/07/1997St AlbansLabourSigned
Michael Mates18/07/1997East HampshireConservativeSigned
Crispin Blunt18/07/1997ReigateConservativeSigned
Ian Stewart18/07/1997EcclesLabourSigned
Andrew Stunell18/07/1997Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
Derek Wyatt18/07/1997Sittingbourne & SheppeyLabourSigned
Syd Rapson21/07/1997Portsmouth NorthLabourSigned
Jimmy Hood21/07/1997ClydesdaleLabourSigned
Elfyn Llwyd21/07/1997Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Fiona Mactaggart21/07/1997SloughLabourSigned
Humfrey Malins21/07/1997WokingConservativeSigned
Robert McCartney21/07/1997North DownUKUPSigned
Tom Brake21/07/1997Carshalton & WallingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Jim Dobbin21/07/1997Heywood & MiddletonLabour Co-operativeSigned
David Amess21/07/1997Southend WestConservativeSigned
Dafydd Wigley21/07/1997CaernarfonPlaid CymruSigned
David Prior22/07/1997North NorfolkConservativeSigned
Charles Kennedy22/07/1997Ross, Skye & Inverness WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Archie Norman22/07/1997Tunbridge WellsConservativeSigned
Vincent Cable22/07/1997TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
James Gray22/07/1997North WiltshireConservativeSigned
Norman Baker22/07/1997LewesLiberal DemocratSigned
Joan Walley22/07/1997Stoke-on-Trent NorthLabourSigned
Alan Simpson23/07/1997Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Alasdair Morgan23/07/1997Galloway & Upper NithsdaleScottish National PartySigned
Howard Flight23/07/1997Arundel & South DownsConservativeSigned
Phil Sawford24/07/1997KetteringLabourSigned
Marsha Singh24/07/1997Bradford WestLabourSigned
Oliver Letwin24/07/1997West DorsetConservativeSigned
Malcolm Bruce24/07/1997GordonLiberal DemocratSigned
Colin Burgon24/07/1997ElmetLabourSigned
David Chaytor24/07/1997Bury NorthLabourSigned
Don Foster24/07/1997BathLiberal DemocratSigned
John Swinney24/07/1997North TaysideScottish National PartySigned
Paddy Tipping24/07/1997SherwoodLabourSigned
Ieuan Wyn Jones28/07/1997Ynys MPlaid CymruSigned
Denis Murphy28/07/1997WansbeckLabourSigned
Jim Wallace28/07/1997Orkney & ShetlandLiberal DemocratSigned
Allan Rogers29/07/1997RhonddaLabourSigned
William Ross29/07/1997East LondonderryUUPSigned
Mark Oaten29/07/1997WinchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Christopher Gill29/07/1997LudlowConservativeSigned
Paul Stinchcombe29/07/1997WellingboroughLabourSigned
Dennis Turner29/07/1997Wolverhampton South EastLabour Co-operativeSigned
Jim Cunningham30/07/1997Coventry SouthLabourSigned
Stephen Day30/07/1997CheadleConservativeSigned
John Gunnell30/07/1997Morley & RothwellLabourSigned
David Ruffley31/07/1997Bury St EdmundsConservativeSigned
Nick Harvey31/07/1997North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
Terry Lewis31/07/1997WorsleyLabourSigned
Austin Mitchell31/07/1997Great GrimsbyLabourSigned
Hilton Dawson31/07/1997Lancaster & WyreLabourSigned
Michael Fallon31/07/1997SevenoaksConservativeSigned
Fabian Hamilton31/07/1997Leeds North EastLabourSigned
Robert Syms31/07/1997PooleConservativeSigned
Phil Willis31/07/1997Harrogate & KnaresboroughLiberal DemocratSigned
David Rendel27/10/1997NewburyLiberal DemocratSigned
Bob Russell27/10/1997ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Jacqui Smith27/10/1997RedditchLabourSigned
Melanie Johnson27/10/1997Welwyn HatfieldLabourSigned
Julian Brazier27/10/1997CanterburyConservativeSigned
Jamie Cann27/10/1997IpswichLabourSigned
William Cash27/10/1997StoneConservativeSigned
Ann Cryer27/10/1997KeighleyLabourSigned
Clifford Forsythe27/10/1997South AntrimUUPSigned
Richard Body27/10/1997Boston & SkegnessConservativeSigned
John Townend27/10/1997East YorkshireConservativeSigned
John Wilkinson27/10/1997Ruislip - NorthwoodConservativeSigned
Peter Luff29/10/1997Mid WorcestershireConservativeSigned
Bill Michie30/10/1997Sheffield, HeeleyLabourSigned
Jeffrey M Donaldson03/11/1997Lagan ValleyUUPSigned
Ronnie Fearn03/11/1997SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
Adrian Sanders11/11/1997TorbayLiberal DemocratSigned
Robert Jackson19/11/1997WantageConservativeSigned
Ann Keen20/11/1997Brentford & IsleworthLabourSigned
Tony McWalter24/11/1997Hemel HempsteadLabour Co-operativeSigned
Menzies Campbell08/12/1997Fife North EastLiberal DemocratSigned
Steve Webb29/01/1998NorthavonLiberal DemocratSigned
Iain Coleman06/02/1998Hammersmith & FulhamLabourSigned
Alan Keen07/05/1998Feltham & HestonLabour Co-operativeSigned
Malcolm Chisholm02/06/1998Edinburgh North & LeithLabourSigned
Graham Stringer23/07/1998Manchester, BlackleyLabourSigned
Kate HoeyUnknownWithdrawn

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