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CHILDREN'S HEALTH AND SMOKING IN THE HOME

EDM number 479 in 1998-99, proposed by Kevin Barron on 23/03/1999.

That this House congratulates the Doctor/Patient Partnership for the launch of its campaign which draws attention to the damage caused to the health of babies and children by smoking in the home; recognises that children who live with two parents who smoke are twice as likely to become smokers themselves, that if both mother and father smoke during the pregnancy, the baby is eight times more likely to die of cot death than if neither parent smokes and that passive smoking doubles the risk of acute respiratory illness in children; notes that a Doctor/Patient Partnership survey reveals that many parents who smoke are genuinely unaware of the extent of the problems they can cause to their children's health, that only 41 per cent. of respondents were aware that parental smoking could lead to childhood asthma, and only seven per cent. realised that the risk of cot death was increased; and calls on the Government to implement moves to raise public awareness of the impact of passive smoking on children's health through public education initiatives, improve training and support for general practitioners to enable them to advise and support parents who wish to cut down or give up smoking and encourage health professionals to bring to parents' attention the dangers to children's health from smoking in the home.

This motion has been signed by a total of 66 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Kevin Barron23/03/1999Rother ValleyLabourProposed
Lawrie Quinn23/03/1999Scarborough & WhitbyLabourSigned
Martin Smyth23/03/1999Belfast SouthUUPSigned
David Hinchliffe23/03/1999WakefieldLabourSigned
Peter Brand23/03/1999Isle of WightLiberal DemocratSigned
David Curry23/03/1999Skipton & RiponConservativeSigned
Michael Fabricant23/03/1999LichfieldConservativeSigned
Michael Clapham24/03/1999Barnsley West & PenistoneLabourSigned
Jenny Tonge24/03/1999Richmond ParkLiberal DemocratSigned
William Thompson24/03/1999West TyroneUUPSigned
David Taylor24/03/1999North West LeicestershireLabour Co-operativeSigned
Peter Bottomley24/03/1999Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Eileen Gordon24/03/1999RomfordLabourSigned
Norman Godman24/03/1999Greenock & InverclydeLabourSigned
Ian Gibson24/03/1999Norwich NorthLabourSigned
Ronnie Fearn24/03/1999SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
Ian Davidson24/03/1999Glasgow, PollokLabour Co-operativeSigned
Laura Moffatt24/03/1999CrawleyLabourSigned
Ashok Kumar24/03/1999Middlesbrough South & East ClevelandLabourSigned
Nigel Jones24/03/1999CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Lynne Jones24/03/1999Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins24/03/1999Luton NorthLabourSigned
Evan Harris24/03/1999Oxford West & AbingdonLiberal DemocratSigned
Bob Russell24/03/1999ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Peter Pike24/03/1999BurnleyLabourSigned
Andrew Stunell25/03/1999Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
Derek Wyatt25/03/1999Sittingbourne & SheppeyLabourSigned
David Borrow25/03/1999South RibbleLabourSigned
Mike Hancock25/03/1999Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Jim Dobbin25/03/1999Heywood & MiddletonLabour Co-operativeSigned
Vincent Cable25/03/1999TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Alice Mahon25/03/1999HalifaxLabourSigned
Paul Keetch25/03/1999HerefordLiberal DemocratSigned
Brian Iddon25/03/1999Bolton South EastLabourSigned
Edward Davey25/03/1999Kingston & SurbitonLiberal DemocratSigned
Kevin McNamara26/03/1999Kingston upon Hull NorthLabourSigned
Colin Burgon29/03/1999ElmetLabourSigned
Tom Brake29/03/1999Carshalton & WallingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Gordon Marsden29/03/1999Blackpool SouthLabourSigned
Barry Jones29/03/1999Alyn & DeesideLabourSigned
Kerry Pollard29/03/1999St AlbansLabourSigned
Tom Levitt30/03/1999High PeakLabourSigned
Ann Cryer30/03/1999KeighleyLabourSigned
Hilton Dawson30/03/1999Lancaster & WyreLabourSigned
Bill Etherington30/03/1999Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Andrew George30/03/1999St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Tyler30/03/1999North CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Simon Hughes31/03/1999North Southwark & BermondseyLiberal DemocratSigned
Jim Wallace31/03/1999Orkney & ShetlandLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Jabez Foster31/03/1999Hastings & RyeLabourSigned
Julia Drown31/03/1999South SwindonLabourSigned
David Chaytor31/03/1999Bury NorthLabourSigned
Paul Burstow31/03/1999Sutton & CheamLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Foster31/03/1999WorcesterLabourSigned
Alan Simpson13/04/1999Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Roy Beggs13/04/1999East AntrimUUPSigned
Paul Truswell13/04/1999PudseyLabourSigned
Betty Williams13/04/1999ConwyLabourSigned
Rudi Vis15/04/1999Finchley & Golders GreenLabourSigned
Paul Marsden19/04/1999Shrewsbury & AtchamLabourSigned
Ken Livingstone05/05/1999Brent EastLabourSigned
Diane Abbott10/05/1999Hackney North & Stoke NewingtonLabourSigned
David Drew12/05/1999StroudLabour Co-operativeSigned
Donald Gorrie17/05/1999Edinburgh WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Terry Davis21/07/1999Birmingham, Hodge HillLabourSigned
Julie Morgan22/07/1999Cardiff NorthLabourSigned

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