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Paper Towels In Retailers' Public Toilets

EDM number 1650 in 2010-12, proposed by Bill Esterson on 23/03/2011.
Categorised under the topics of Industrial health and safety and Service industries.

That this House notes the findings of Redway and Fawdar at the European Tissue Symposium in 2009 that demonstrates the ineffectiveness of warm air dryers and jet air dryers in reducing levels of bacteria on the skin; further notes that both methods of hand drying produce a mean increase in bacteria and that, for users of colostomy bags for whom sanitation is a paramount concern, the bacteria present through blow air drying methods are particularly hazardous when changing colostomy bags; welcomes the fact that certain major retailers are installing paper towels in all disabled toilet facilities; and urges the Government to make the installation of paper towels in a disabled toilet facilities a legal requirement to safeguard the health and safety of colostomy bag users.

This motion has been signed by a total of 23 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Bill Esterson23/03/2011Sefton CentralLabourProposed
Nicholas Dakin23/03/2011ScunthorpeLabourSeconded
Anne Begg23/03/2011Aberdeen SouthLabourSeconded
Jim Dobbin23/03/2011Heywood and MiddletonLabourSeconded
Gordon Henderson23/03/2011Sittingbourne and SheppeyConservativeSeconded
Joe Benton23/03/2011BootleLabourSeconded
George Howarth23/03/2011KnowsleyLabourSigned
Mike Gapes23/03/2011Ilford SouthLabourSigned
Rosie Cooper23/03/2011West LancashireLabourSigned
Glenda Jackson24/03/2011Hampstead and KilburnLabourSigned
Mike Hancock24/03/2011Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Dennis Skinner24/03/2011BolsoverLabourSigned
Adrian Sanders24/03/2011TorbayLiberal DemocratSigned
Bob Russell28/03/2011ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Kelvin Hopkins28/03/2011Luton NorthLabourSigned
John Hemming28/03/2011Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
William McCrea29/03/2011South AntrimDUPSigned
Jeremy Corbyn29/03/2011Islington NorthLabourSigned
Lady Hermon30/03/2011North DownIndependentSigned
David Crausby30/03/2011Bolton North EastLabourSigned
John Leech01/04/2011Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
David Simpson04/04/2011Upper BannDUPSigned
Lindsay Roy05/04/2011GlenrothesLabourSigned

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