Media Coverage Of Suicide (EDM2484)

Media Coverage Of Suicide

EDM number 2484 in 2005-06, proposed by Edward Vaizey on 03/07/2006.

That this House welcomes the recently announced proposed amendment to the Editor's Code of Conduct; further welcomes the new commitment to ensure that when reporting suicide, care should be taken to avoid excessive detail about the method used; notes that the change has come, in no small measure, as a response to the publication of photographs in the press earlier this year which many, including some in the media, felt were gratuitous and could have led to a copycat case; congratulates Samaritans on their work in bringing this change about; and hopes that in future the media will treat coverage of suicide with the sensitivity that it deserves.

This motion has been signed by a total of 62 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Edward Vaizey	03/07/2006	Wantage	Conservative	Proposed
Andrew Selous	03/07/2006	South West Bedfordshire	Conservative	Seconded
Bob Russell	03/07/2006	Colchester	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Glenda Jackson	04/07/2006	Hampstead and Highgate	Labour	Seconded
Andrew George	04/07/2006	St Ives	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Paul Holmes	04/07/2006	Chesterfield	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Michael Penning	04/07/2006	Hemel Hempstead	Conservative	Signed
Stephen Williams	04/07/2006	Bristol West	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Nicholas Winterton	04/07/2006	Macclesfield	Conservative	Signed
Mark Durkan	04/07/2006	Foyle	Social Democratic and Labour Party	Signed
Jim Dobbin	04/07/2006	Heywood and Middleton	Labour	Signed
Jeremy Corbyn	04/07/2006	Islington North	Labour	Signed
Derek Conway	04/07/2006	Old Bexley & Sidcup	Conservative	Signed
Bob Spink	04/07/2006	Castle Point	Conservative	Signed
Colin Breed	04/07/2006	South East Cornwall	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Cummings	04/07/2006	Easington	Labour	Signed
Nigel Dodds	05/07/2006	Belfast North	DUP	Signed
Dan Rogerson	05/07/2006	North Cornwall	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Jim McGovern	05/07/2006	Dundee West	Labour	Signed
John Leech	05/07/2006	Manchester, Withington	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Stephen Crabb	05/07/2006	Preseli Pembrokeshire	Conservative	Signed
Andrew Dismore	05/07/2006	Hendon	Labour	Signed
John McDonnell	05/07/2006	Hayes and Harlington	Labour	Signed
Lynne Jones	05/07/2006	Birmingham, Selly Oak	Labour	Signed
Lindsay Hoyle	05/07/2006	Chorley	Labour	Signed
Jim Devine	06/07/2006	Livingston	Labour	Signed
Rudi Vis	06/07/2006	Finchley and Golders Green	Labour	Signed
Keith Vaz	06/07/2006	Leicester East	Labour	Signed
Diane Abbott	06/07/2006	Hackney North and Stoke Newington	Labour	Signed
Bill Etherington	06/07/2006	Sunderland North	Labour	Signed
David Drew	06/07/2006	Stroud	Labour	Signed
Tim Loughton	06/07/2006	East Worthing and Shoreham	Conservative	Signed
James Gray	06/07/2006	North Wiltshire	Conservative	Signed
David Heyes	10/07/2006	Ashton-under-Lyne	Labour	Signed
Nigel Evans	10/07/2006	Ribble Valley	Conservative	Signed
Mike Hancock	10/07/2006	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Betty Williams	10/07/2006	Conwy	Labour	Signed
Daniel Kawczynski	10/07/2006	Shrewsbury and Atcham	Conservative	Signed
Austin Mitchell	11/07/2006	Great Grimsby	Labour	Signed
Ann Cryer	11/07/2006	Keighley	Labour	Signed
Ben Wallace	11/07/2006	Lancaster and Wyre	Conservative	Signed
David Wilshire	11/07/2006	Spelthorne	Conservative	Signed
Angela Watkinson	12/07/2006	Upminster	Conservative	Signed
Roger Godsiff	12/07/2006	Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small Heath	Labour	Signed
Elfyn Llwyd	12/07/2006	Meirionnydd Nant Conwy	Plaid Cymru	Signed
Martin Caton	12/07/2006	Gower	Labour	Signed
Greg Pope	13/07/2006	Hyndburn	Labour	Signed
Alan Simpson	13/07/2006	Nottingham South	Labour	Signed
Frank Doran	13/07/2006	Aberdeen North	Labour	Signed
John Hemming	13/07/2006	Birmingham, Yardley	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Si	13/07/2006	Swansea East	Labour	Signed
Alasdair McDonnell	14/07/2006	Belfast South	Social Democratic and Labour Party	Signed
James Duddridge	14/07/2006	Rochford and Southend East	Conservative	Signed
John Battle	17/07/2006	Leeds West	Labour	Signed
Martin Salter	19/07/2006	Reading West	Labour	Signed
Tim Farron	19/07/2006	Westmorland and Lonsdale	Liberal Democrat	Signed
David Hamilton	20/07/2006	Midlothian	Labour	Signed
Anne Begg	20/07/2006	Aberdeen South	Labour	Signed
Richard Benyon	20/07/2006	Newbury	Conservative	Signed
Tom Brake	24/07/2006	Carshalton and Wallington	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Roberta Blackman-Woods	24/07/2006	City of Durham	Labour	Signed
Rob Wilson	09/10/2006	Reading East	Conservative	Signed

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