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Workout At Work Day 2012

EDM number 214 in 2012-13, proposed by Adrian Sanders on 18/06/2012.
Categorised under the topics of Employment, Health education and preventive medicine and Industrial health and safety.

That this House welcomesWorkoutat Work Day on 19 June 2012; recognises the importance of promoting exercise in the workplace and encouraging good working habits; regrets that time taken off work by people with a musculoskeletal disorder such as back or neck pain costs the UK economy 7.4 billion a year; further regrets that 31 per cent of people experience pain at work at least once a week; notes that economic and personal costs could be greatly reduced by encouraging better working habits and also by providing early access to services such as physiotherapy; further notes that the benefits of building more physical activity into daily life include increasing productivity at work and improving overall health and wellbeing; congratulates the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy for organising Workoutat Work Day and promoting positive health messages to employees and employers; calls on the Government to publish its response to Health at Work-An Independent Review of Sickness Absence; and urges NHS organisations to urgently implement the recommendations of the Boorman Review entitled NHS Health and Wellbeing.

This motion has been signed by a total of 21 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Adrian Sanders18/06/2012TorbayLiberal DemocratProposed
Mark Durkan18/06/2012FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySeconded
Peter Bottomley18/06/2012Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Margaret Ritchie19/06/2012South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySeconded
David Simpson19/06/2012Upper BannDUPSeconded
John Leech19/06/2012Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSeconded
Jeremy Corbyn19/06/2012Islington NorthLabourSigned
Martin Caton20/06/2012GowerLabourSigned
Ian Swales20/06/2012RedcarLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Crockart20/06/2012Edinburgh WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Greg Mulholland20/06/2012Leeds North WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Lorely Burt20/06/2012SolihullLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Flynn20/06/2012Newport WestLabourSigned
John McDonnell20/06/2012Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Gordon Marsden20/06/2012Blackpool SouthLabourSigned
Robert Smith20/06/2012West Aberdeenshire and KincardineLiberal DemocratSigned
John Pugh21/06/2012SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
Sandra Osborne21/06/2012Ayr, Carrick and CumnockLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins27/06/2012Luton NorthLabourSigned
David Crausby11/07/2012Bolton North EastLabourSigned
Rosie Cooper03/09/2012West LancashireLabourSigned

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