Breastfeeding Manifesto And Legislation On Protection For Breastfeeding Women

EDM number 1504 in 2006-07, proposed by Lynne Jones on 17/05/2007.

That this House supports National Breastfeeding Awareness Week and encourages hon. Members to sign the Breastfeeding Manifesto at www.breastfeedingmanifesto.org.uk; notes that Scottish law outlaws discrimination against women breastfeeding in places to which members of the public have access; and calls on the Government to extend this protection to all women in the UK, making it an offence to prevent or stop a person in charge of a child who is otherwise permitted to be in a public place or licensed premises from feeding milk to that child in that place or on those premises and to make provision in relation to the promotion of breastfeeding.

This motion has been signed by a total of 64 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.