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Supply Of Harm Reduction Products To Drug Users

EDM number 1273 in 2008-09, proposed by Mike Wood on 01/04/2009.
Categorised under the topics of Drugs misuse and Health services.

That this House notes that section 9A of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 was intended to prevent the commercial sale of kits and equipment for the preparation and consumption of illicit drugs; further notes that there have only ever been a handful of prosecutions for the commercial sale of drug kits and paraphernalia since 1986 due to the ambiguous nature of section 9A, leading many police forces to abandon enforcement; further notes that on each of the two occasions that the Act has been amended since the insertion of section 9A in 1986 to incorporate newly-developed harm reduction interventions, each amendment has involved a lengthy process of campaigning and legislative change; is concerned that section 9A currently prevents legitimate harm reduction services from providing a number of otherwise innocuous products to their drug-using clients because these items are not explicitly permitted in the legislation; and therefore calls on the Government to consider either a general exemption for all harm reduction products supplied by drug treatment providers and healthcare professionals, or the repeal of section 9A.

This motion has been signed by a total of 35 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Mike Wood01/04/2009Batley and SpenLabourProposed
Paul Flynn01/04/2009Newport WestLabourSeconded
John McDonnell01/04/2009Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSeconded
Mike Hancock01/04/2009Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSeconded
David Drew02/04/2009StroudLabourSeconded
Jeremy Corbyn02/04/2009Islington NorthLabourSeconded
Kelvin Hopkins02/04/2009Luton NorthLabourSigned
Lynne Jones02/04/2009Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Ann Cryer02/04/2009KeighleyLabourSigned
Peter Bottomley02/04/2009Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Jim Dobbin20/04/2009Heywood and MiddletonLabourSigned
Martin Caton21/04/2009GowerLabourSigned
Harry Cohen21/04/2009Leyton and WansteadLabourSigned
Rudi Vis22/04/2009Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Bill Etherington23/04/2009Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
John Hemming23/04/2009Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Robert Wareing24/04/2009Liverpool, West DerbyIndependentSigned
Michael Clapham24/04/2009Barnsley West and PenistoneLabourSigned
Neil Gerrard27/04/2009WalthamstowLabourSigned
Linda Riordan29/04/2009HalifaxLabourSigned
Alan Simpson06/05/2009Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Evan Harris07/05/2009Oxford West and AbingdonLiberal DemocratSigned
Dai Havard11/05/2009Merthyr Tydfil and RhymneyLabourSigned
Brian Iddon11/05/2009Bolton South EastLabourSigned
Diane Abbott12/05/2009Hackney North and Stoke NewingtonLabourSigned
Julie Morgan13/05/2009Cardiff NorthLabourSigned
Lembit 15/05/2009MontgomeryshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Willie Rennie20/05/2009Dunfermline and West FifeLiberal DemocratSigned
Mohammad Sarwar08/06/2009Glasgow CentralLabourSigned
Dai Davies17/06/2009Blaenau GwentIndependentSigned
Jennifer Willott22/06/2009Cardiff CentralLiberal DemocratSigned
Desmond Turner06/07/2009Brighton, KemptownLabourSigned
Richard Burden12/10/2009Birmingham, NorthfieldLabourSigned
Simon Hughes04/11/2009North Southwark and BermondseyLiberal DemocratSigned
Ian GibsonUnknownWithdrawn

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