Banning Of Looped Blind Cords

EDM number 1115 in 2007-08, proposed by Gordon Banks on 04/03/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Child care and Health education and preventive medicine.

That this House acknowledges that in the last 10 years up to 20 children are reported to have lost their lives in the UK as a result of incidents involving looped blind cords; recognises that the US banned the use of looped blind cords in the 1990s and Australia followed suit in 2004; calls on the British Standards Institute to introduce a new British Standard banning the use of looped blind cords; and urges the Government to begin immediate discussions with the British Standards Institute to prevent further avoidable deaths.

This motion has been signed by a total of 87 MPs, 2 of these signatures have been withdrawn.