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Sizes Of Models

EDM number 1240 in 2008-09, proposed by Richard Younger-Ross on 31/03/2009.
Categorised under the topics of Health education and preventive medicine and Media.

That this House notes that approximately 24,000 16 to 18 year old women and men suffer from anorexia; further notes that for many the desire to be thin is driven by societal pressures that determine thin as beautiful; further notes that such pressures are fuelled by the media and fashion magazines, and therefore welcomes those positive images for average-sized and larger women such as the selection of Crystal Renn, a size 16, as the face and body of Evans and the promotion of this in the April edition of Cosmopolitan magazine; and therefore calls on all in the fashion industry to select models who are of larger sizes for inclusion in magazines.

This motion has been signed by a total of 21 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Richard Younger-Ross31/03/2009TeignbridgeLiberal DemocratProposed
Ann Cryer01/04/2009KeighleyLabourSeconded
Paul Holmes01/04/2009ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSeconded
Peter Bottomley01/04/2009Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Bob Spink01/04/2009Castle PointIndependentSeconded
John Hemming02/04/2009Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSeconded
Jeremy Corbyn02/04/2009Islington NorthLabourSigned
David Drew02/04/2009StroudLabourSigned
Betty Williams20/04/2009ConwyLabourSigned
Jim Devine20/04/2009LivingstonLabourSigned
John Leech20/04/2009Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Mike Hancock20/04/2009Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Adrian Sanders20/04/2009TorbayLiberal DemocratSigned
Mark Hunter22/04/2009CheadleLiberal DemocratSigned
Linda Riordan29/04/2009HalifaxLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins30/04/2009TamworthLabourSigned
Alan Simpson06/05/2009Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Evan Harris07/05/2009Oxford West and AbingdonLiberal DemocratSigned
Jo Swinson01/07/2009East DunbartonshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Susan Kramer11/11/2009Richmond ParkLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Jabez FosterUnknownWithdrawn

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