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Premature Births

EDM number 105 in 2008-09, proposed by David Anderson on 04/12/2008.
Categorised under the topic of Health education and preventive medicine.

That this House recognises that every year around 50,000 babies are born prematurely in the UK; acknowledges that premature birth can lead to lifelong conditions as well as being a significant contributor to infant mortality; and urges all hon. Members to back the call by the charity Action Medical Research to the Department of Health and the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills urgently to develop a 10-year national research strategy in order to understand the causes of premature birth and to stop unnecessary suffering.

This motion has been signed by a total of 83 MPs, 3 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
David Anderson04/12/2008BlaydonLabourProposed
Brian H Donohoe04/12/2008Central AyrshireLabourSeconded
David Taylor04/12/2008North West LeicestershireLabourSeconded
Jim Dobbin04/12/2008Heywood and MiddletonLabourSeconded
Peter Bottomley04/12/2008Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Andrew George04/12/2008St IvesLiberal DemocratSeconded
David Drew08/12/2008StroudLabourSigned
Mark Williams08/12/2008CeredigionLiberal DemocratSigned
Dan Rogerson08/12/2008North CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Ann Winterton08/12/2008CongletonConservativeSigned
Paul Truswell08/12/2008PudseyLabourSigned
Don Touhig08/12/2008IslwynLabourSigned
Alan Beith08/12/2008Berwick-upon-TweedLiberal DemocratSigned
Mike Hancock08/12/2008Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Ann Cryer08/12/2008KeighleyLabourSigned
Annette Brooke08/12/2008Mid Dorset and North PooleLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Meale08/12/2008MansfieldLabourSigned
John McDonnell08/12/2008Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Evan Harris08/12/2008Oxford West and AbingdonLiberal DemocratSigned
Bob Spink08/12/2008Castle PointIndependentSigned
Andrew Miller09/12/2008Ellesmere Port and NestonLabourSigned
Jim Devine09/12/2008LivingstonLabourSigned
Katy Clark09/12/2008North Ayrshire and ArranLabourSigned
Lorely Burt09/12/2008SolihullLiberal DemocratSigned
Gregory Campbell09/12/2008East LondonderryDUPSigned
Lynne Jones09/12/2008Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Tim Loughton09/12/2008East Worthing and ShorehamConservativeSigned
Mark Durkan09/12/2008FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Paul Rowen10/12/2008RochdaleLiberal DemocratSigned
Dai Davies10/12/2008Blaenau GwentIndependentSigned
Jo Swinson10/12/2008East DunbartonshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Janet Dean10/12/2008BurtonLabourSigned
Michael Clapham10/12/2008Barnsley West and PenistoneLabourSigned
Martin Caton10/12/2008GowerLabourSigned
William McCrea10/12/2008South AntrimDUPSigned
Nick Harvey10/12/2008North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
John Pugh11/12/2008SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
Brian Jenkins11/12/2008TamworthLabourSigned
David Amess11/12/2008Southend WestConservativeSigned
Mike Wood11/12/2008Batley and SpenLabourSigned
Betty Williams15/12/2008ConwyLabourSigned
Helen Southworth15/12/2008Warrington SouthLabourSigned
Rudi Vis15/12/2008Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Desmond Turner15/12/2008Brighton, KemptownLabourSigned
Denis Murphy15/12/2008WansbeckLabourSigned
Frank Field15/12/2008BirkenheadLabourSigned
Marsha Singh15/12/2008Bradford WestLabourSigned
Fraser Kemp15/12/2008Houghton and Washington EastLabourSigned
Eric Illsley16/12/2008Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Frank Cook16/12/2008Stockton NorthLabourSigned
Bill Etherington16/12/2008Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Ian Stewart16/12/2008EcclesLabourSigned
Jennifer Willott16/12/2008Cardiff CentralLiberal DemocratSigned
John Austin17/12/2008Erith and ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Hywel Williams18/12/2008CaernarfonPlaid CymruSigned
Chris McCafferty12/01/2009Calder ValleyLabourSigned
David Hamilton12/01/2009MidlothianLabourSigned
Greg Pope14/01/2009HyndburnLabourSigned
Stephen Williams14/01/2009Bristol WestLiberal DemocratSigned
John Butterfill15/01/2009Bournemouth WestConservativeSigned
Martin Salter19/01/2009Reading WestLabourSigned
John Leech19/01/2009Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Don Foster20/01/2009BathLiberal DemocratSigned
Charles Kennedy21/01/2009Ross, Skye and LochaberLiberal DemocratSigned
Mark Todd21/01/2009South DerbyshireLabourSigned
Richard Younger-Ross22/01/2009TeignbridgeLiberal DemocratSigned
Kelvin Hopkins26/01/2009Luton NorthLabourSigned
Paul Farrelly26/01/2009Newcastle-under-LymeLabourSigned
Albert Owen27/01/2009Ynys MLabourSigned
Lynne Featherstone28/01/2009Hornsey and Wood GreenLiberal DemocratSigned
Tom Brake24/02/2009Carshalton and WallingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Richard Burden02/03/2009Birmingham, NorthfieldLabourSigned
Andy Reed05/03/2009LoughboroughLabourSigned
Iris Robinson16/03/2009StrangfordDUPSigned
Kim Howells19/03/2009PontypriddLabourSigned
Siobhain McDonagh20/03/2009Mitcham and MordenLabourSigned
Eddie McGrady20/03/2009South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Alasdair McDonnell22/04/2009Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Russell Brown06/05/2009Dumfries and GallowayLabourSigned
Simon Hughes11/11/2009North Southwark and BermondseyLiberal DemocratSigned
John BercowUnknownWithdrawn
Michael Jabez FosterUnknownWithdrawn
John HeppellUnknownWithdrawn

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