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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.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Paul Flynn13/11/2007Newport WestLabourProposed
Graham Stringer14/11/2007Manchester, BlackleyLabourSeconded
Linda Riordan14/11/2007HalifaxLabourSeconded
Lynne Jones14/11/2007Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSeconded
Mike Hancock14/11/2007Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSeconded
Martin Caton14/11/2007GowerLabourSeconded
Jeremy Corbyn14/11/2007Islington NorthLabourSigned
Andrew George14/11/2007St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Simpson15/11/2007Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Katy Clark15/11/2007North Ayrshire and ArranLabourSigned
Michael Jabez Foster19/11/2007Hastings and RyeLabourSigned
Ian Gibson19/11/2007Norwich NorthLabourSigned
Jim Dobbin19/11/2007Heywood and MiddletonLabourSigned
Ann Cryer19/11/2007KeighleyLabourSigned
Glenda Jackson20/11/2007Hampstead and HighgateLabourSigned
Betty Williams20/11/2007ConwyLabourSigned
Greg Pope21/11/2007HyndburnLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins21/11/2007TamworthLabourSigned
Rudi Vis21/11/2007Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Jim Devine21/11/2007LivingstonLabourSigned
John Horam22/11/2007OrpingtonConservativeSigned
Annette Brooke22/11/2007Mid Dorset and North PooleLiberal DemocratSigned
Bill Etherington22/11/2007Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Bob Spink10/12/2007Castle PointConservativeSigned
John Austin18/12/2007Erith and ThamesmeadLabourSigned

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