Ritalin

EDM number 225 in 2007-08, proposed by Paul Flynn on 13/11/2007.
Categorised under the topics of Children and families, Health finance, Health services and Medicine.

That this House notes that a 16 year study of the outcome of the use of Ritalin on children concluded that over a three-year period it produced no demonstrable improvement in children's behaviour, but that this amphetamine-type drug stunted growth; notes that the prescription of Ritalin has increased threefold since 1999 at a current cost to the NHS of £28 million; and calls for the transfer of this sum to therapies that are beneficial.

This motion has been signed by a total of 25 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Paul Flynn	13/11/2007	Newport West	Labour	Proposed
Graham Stringer	14/11/2007	Manchester, Blackley	Labour	Seconded
Linda Riordan	14/11/2007	Halifax	Labour	Seconded
Lynne Jones	14/11/2007	Birmingham, Selly Oak	Labour	Seconded
Mike Hancock	14/11/2007	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Martin Caton	14/11/2007	Gower	Labour	Seconded
Andrew George	14/11/2007	St Ives	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Jeremy Corbyn	14/11/2007	Islington North	Labour	Signed
Alan Simpson	15/11/2007	Nottingham South	Labour	Signed
Katy Clark	15/11/2007	Ayrshire North & Arran	Labour	Signed
Ian Gibson	19/11/2007	Norwich North	Labour	Signed
Michael Jabez Foster	19/11/2007	Hastings & Rye	Labour	Signed
Jim Dobbin	19/11/2007	Heywood & Middleton	Labour	Signed
Ann Cryer	19/11/2007	Keighley	Labour	Signed
Glenda Jackson	20/11/2007	Hampstead & Highgate	Labour	Signed
Betty Williams	20/11/2007	Conwy	Labour	Signed
Jim Devine	21/11/2007	Livingston	Labour	Signed
Rudi Vis	21/11/2007	Finchley & Golders Green	Labour	Signed
Brian Jenkins	21/11/2007	Tamworth	Labour	Signed
Greg Pope	21/11/2007	Hyndburn	Labour	Signed
John Horam	22/11/2007	Orpington	Conservative	Signed
Annette Brooke	22/11/2007	Mid Dorset & North Poole	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Bill Etherington	22/11/2007	Sunderland North	Labour	Signed
Bob Spink	10/12/2007	Castle Point	Conservative	Signed
John Austin	18/12/2007	Erith & Thamesmead	Labour	Signed

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