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Childhood Obesity And Healthy School Meals

EDM number 2486 in 2005-06, proposed by Diana R Johnson on 03/07/2006.

That this House notes the most recent research showing that childhood obesity threatens the health and academic attainment of young people throughout the United Kingdom, with major long-term cost implications in the National Health Service, illness-related welfare benefits and local authority services; acknowledges that the problem of childhood obesity extends beyond those on the lowest household income levels as defined by entitlement to means-tested benefits; believes that a more nutritious diet for schoolchildren has a central role in combating this public health problem; applauds Hull City Council's three-year pilot scheme, combining increased investment in healthier school food ingredients with the abolition of charges for primary school meals; observes that the resulting increase in the take-up of school meals from 36 per cent. to 64 per cent. indicates that universal free school meals is a particularly effective means of extending healthy eating to children in the areas of greatest deprivation; recognises Hull's `Eat Well, Do Well' scheme to be a nationally significant example of the local innovation encouraged in the Education and Inspections Act 2006; regrets that Hull City Council's new minority administration has expressed opposition to the free primary school meals scheme and has announced the reintroduction of schools meals charging for those not claiming means-tested benefits, without waiting to consider the final results in 2007 of their pilot scheme; fears that this action would reverse Hull's progress in increasing the take-up of healthy school meals; and joins the Child Poverty Action Group in urging Hull councillors to reconsider this decision.

This motion has been signed by a total of 102 MPs, 2 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Diana Johnson03/07/2006Kingston upon Hull NorthLabourProposed
Mary Creagh03/07/2006WakefieldLabourSeconded
Judy Mallaber03/07/2006Amber ValleyLabourSeconded
Roberta Blackman-Woods03/07/2006City of DurhamLabourSeconded
Si03/07/2006Birmingham, ErdingtonLabourSeconded
Sharon Hodgson03/07/2006Gateshead East and Washington WestLabourSeconded
Stephen Pound03/07/2006Ealing NorthLabourSigned
Lindsay Hoyle03/07/2006ChorleyLabourSigned
Jane Kennedy03/07/2006Liverpool, WavertreeLabourSigned
Jeff Ennis03/07/2006Barnsley East and MexboroughLabourSigned
Mike Gapes03/07/2006Ilford SouthLabourSigned
Adrian Bailey03/07/2006West Bromwich WestLabourSigned
Clive Betts03/07/2006Sheffield, AttercliffeLabourSigned
Ian Austin03/07/2006Dudley NorthLabourSigned
Lyn Brown03/07/2006West HamLabourSigned
Rosie Cooper03/07/2006West LancashireLabourSigned
Natascha Engel03/07/2006North East DerbyshireLabourSigned
Helen Goodman03/07/2006Bishop AucklandLabourSigned
Nia Griffith03/07/2006LlanelliLabourSigned
Barbara Keeley03/07/2006WorsleyLabourSigned
Kerry McCarthy03/07/2006Bristol EastLabourSigned
Sarah McCarthy-Fry03/07/2006Portsmouth NorthLabourSigned
Jim McGovern03/07/2006Dundee WestLabourSigned
Joan Humble04/07/2006Blackpool North and FleetwoodLabourSigned
Colin Breed04/07/2006South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Jeremy Corbyn04/07/2006Islington NorthLabourSigned
John Cummings04/07/2006EasingtonLabourSigned
Mark Durkan04/07/2006FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Desmond Turner04/07/2006Brighton, KemptownLabourSigned
Dai Davies04/07/2006Blaenau GwentIndependentSigned
Kelvin Hopkins05/07/2006Luton NorthLabourSigned
Lynne Jones05/07/2006Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Chris McCafferty05/07/2006Calder ValleyLabourSigned
John McDonnell05/07/2006Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Michael Connarty05/07/2006Linlithgow and East FalkirkLabourSigned
Andrew Dismore05/07/2006HendonLabourSigned
Nigel Dodds05/07/2006Belfast NorthDUPSigned
Ian Gibson05/07/2006Norwich NorthLabourSigned
Janet Anderson05/07/2006Rossendale and DarwenLabourSigned
David Drew06/07/2006StroudLabourSigned
Bill Etherington06/07/2006Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Rudi Vis06/07/2006Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Jim Devine06/07/2006LivingstonLabourSigned
Phyllis Starkey10/07/2006Milton Keynes South WestLabourSigned
Rob Marris10/07/2006Wolverhampton South WestLabourSigned
Doug Naysmith10/07/2006Bristol North WestLabourSigned
Jim Dowd10/07/2006Lewisham WestLabourSigned
Paul Flynn10/07/2006Newport WestLabourSigned
John Grogan10/07/2006SelbyLabourSigned
Betty Williams10/07/2006ConwyLabourSigned
Sadiq Khan10/07/2006TootingLabourSigned
John Spellar11/07/2006WarleyLabourSigned
Frank Cook11/07/2006Stockton NorthLabourSigned
Ann Cryer11/07/2006KeighleyLabourSigned
Brian H Donohoe11/07/2006Central AyrshireLabourSigned
Mark Tami11/07/2006Alyn and DeesideLabourSigned
David Taylor11/07/2006North West LeicestershireLabourSigned
Austin Mitchell12/07/2006Great GrimsbyLabourSigned
Martin Caton12/07/2006GowerLabourSigned
Hywel Francis12/07/2006AberavonLabourSigned
Roger Godsiff12/07/2006Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small HeathLabourSigned
Greg Pope13/07/2006HyndburnLabourSigned
Alan Simpson13/07/2006Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Janet Dean13/07/2006BurtonLabourSigned
Alasdair McDonnell14/07/2006Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Angela Eagle17/07/2006WallaseyLabourSigned
Mark Fisher17/07/2006Stoke-on-Trent CentralLabourSigned
John Horam18/07/2006OrpingtonConservativeSigned
Denis Murphy18/07/2006WansbeckLabourSigned
Dennis Skinner19/07/2006BolsoverLabourSigned
Bill Olner19/07/2006NuneatonLabourSigned
David Crausby19/07/2006Bolton North EastLabourSigned
Andrew Gwynne19/07/2006Denton and ReddishLabourSigned
Marsha Singh20/07/2006Bradford WestLabourSigned
Harry Cohen20/07/2006Leyton and WansteadLabourSigned
Howard Stoate20/07/2006DartfordLabourSigned
Gavin Strang20/07/2006Edinburgh EastLabourSigned
Clare Short24/07/2006Birmingham, LadywoodLabourSigned
Kate Hoey24/07/2006VauxhallLabourSigned
Diane Abbott24/07/2006Hackney North and Stoke NewingtonLabourSigned
Gordon Prentice25/07/2006PendleLabourSigned
Eric Illsley25/07/2006Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Frank Dobson25/07/2006Holborn and St PancrasLabourSigned
Charlotte Atkins25/07/2006Staffordshire MoorlandsLabourSigned
Roger Berry25/07/2006KingswoodLabourSigned
David Borrow25/07/2006South RibbleLabourSigned
Ian Stewart25/07/2006EcclesLabourSigned
Paul Truswell25/07/2006PudseyLabourSigned
Adam Price09/10/2006Carmarthen East and DinefwrPlaid CymruSigned
John Robertson09/10/2006Glasgow North WestLabourSigned
David Heyes09/10/2006Ashton-under-LyneLabourSigned
Elfyn Llwyd09/10/2006Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Elliot Morley09/10/2006ScunthorpeLabourSigned
Colin Burgon09/10/2006ElmetLabourSigned
Sandra Gidley09/10/2006RomseyLiberal DemocratSigned
Joan Walley09/10/2006Stoke-on-Trent NorthLabourSigned
Mike Wood09/10/2006Batley and SpenLabourSigned
David Anderson09/10/2006BlaydonLabourSigned
Katy Clark09/10/2006North Ayrshire and ArranLabourSigned
Emily Thornberry09/10/2006Islington South and FinsburyLabourSigned
Mike HancockUnknownWithdrawn
Andrew GeorgeUnknownWithdrawn

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