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Teaching Life-Saving Skills At School

EDM number 550 in 2012-13, proposed by Alan Meale on 18/09/2012.
Categorised under the topics of Health education and preventive medicine and Schools.

That this House knows that around 60,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occur each year in Britain, with around 50 per cent of these being treated by emergency medical services, with survival rates varying across the UK; understands therefore the importance of the teaching of emergency life support skills which would enable the set of actions required to keep someone alive until such times as professional help arrives; is aware that young people and children are often present at the scenes of accidents and emergencies and if properly trained can be at least as effective as adults in administrating life-saving actions; believes that such skills should be a mandatory part of secondary education in the UK; and calls on the Secretary of State for Education to immediately examine ways in which this could be achieved.

This motion has been signed by a total of 30 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Alan Meale18/09/2012MansfieldLabourProposed
Mark Durkan15/10/2012FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySeconded
Peter Bottomley15/10/2012Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Valerie Vaz15/10/2012Walsall SouthLabourSeconded
Margaret Ritchie16/10/2012South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySeconded
Jim Shannon16/10/2012StrangfordDUPSeconded
David Simpson16/10/2012Upper BannDUPSigned
George Howarth16/10/2012KnowsleyLabourSigned
Martin Caton16/10/2012GowerLabourSigned
George Galloway17/10/2012Bradford WestRespectSigned
Michael Crockart17/10/2012Edinburgh WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Virendra Sharma17/10/2012Ealing, SouthallLabourSigned
Jeffrey M Donaldson17/10/2012Lagan ValleyDUPSigned
Ronnie Campbell17/10/2012Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
William McCrea17/10/2012South AntrimDUPSigned
Naomi Long17/10/2012Belfast EastAllianceSigned
Kelvin Hopkins17/10/2012Luton NorthLabourSigned
Jim Dobbin17/10/2012Heywood and MiddletonLabourSigned
Paul Murphy18/10/2012TorfaenLabourSigned
David Anderson18/10/2012BlaydonLabourSigned
Martin Vickers19/10/2012CleethorpesConservativeSigned
Jeremy Corbyn22/10/2012Islington NorthLabourSigned
John Leech22/10/2012Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
David Crausby24/10/2012Bolton North EastLabourSigned
Mary Glindon24/10/2012North TynesideLabourSigned
Linda Riordan08/11/2012HalifaxLabourSigned
Stephen Williams03/12/2012Bristol WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Jim Dowd12/12/2012Lewisham West and PengeLabourSigned
Joan Ruddock08/01/2013Lewisham, DeptfordLabourSigned
Jim Cunningham27/02/2013Coventry SouthLabourSigned

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