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Closure Of NHS Services

EDM number 656 in 2013-14, proposed by Caroline Lucas on 30/10/2013.
Categorised under the topic of Health services.

That this House notes that the Secretary of State for Health has suffered another embarrassing legal defeat after the Court of Appeal judges ruled he had acted illegally in deciding to cut accident and emergency and maternity services at Lewisham Hospital; has concerns about Government amendment 168a to the Care Bill designed to change the rules to give the power to any hospital administrator appointed in England to dismantle whichever hospital services arbitrarily, as long as a neighbouring hospital is deemed to be failing; believes that this attempt to sneak through a fundamental change to the way decisions are made about local hospitals makes a mockery of local scrutiny and democracy; and calls on the Government to accept that it has lost and to stop trying to change the law to enable it to close successful hospital services that the community wants and needs.

This motion has been signed by a total of 43 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Caroline Lucas30/10/2013Brighton, PavilionGreenProposed
John McDonnell30/10/2013Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSeconded
Jeremy Corbyn30/10/2013Islington NorthLabourSeconded
Heidi Alexander31/10/2013Lewisham EastLabourSeconded
Joan Ruddock31/10/2013Lewisham, DeptfordLabourSeconded
Jim Dowd31/10/2013Lewisham West and PengeLabourSeconded
Graham Stringer31/10/2013Blackley and BroughtonLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins31/10/2013Luton NorthLabourSigned
Alan Meale31/10/2013MansfieldLabourSigned
Dennis Skinner31/10/2013BolsoverLabourSigned
Jim Dobbin01/11/2013Heywood and MiddletonLabourSigned
Valerie Vaz04/11/2013Walsall SouthLabourSigned
Margaret Ritchie05/11/2013South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Frank Dobson05/11/2013Holborn and St PancrasLabourSigned
Ronnie Campbell06/11/2013Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Virendra Sharma06/11/2013Ealing, SouthallLabourSigned
Linda Riordan06/11/2013HalifaxLabourSigned
Martin Caton06/11/2013GowerLabourSigned
Tom Watson06/11/2013West Bromwich EastLabourSigned
Roger Godsiff06/11/2013Birmingham, Hall GreenLabourSigned
Glenda Jackson07/11/2013Hampstead and KilburnLabourSigned
Jim McGovern08/11/2013Dundee WestLabourSigned
Paul Flynn08/11/2013Newport WestLabourSigned
Kate Hoey11/11/2013VauxhallLabourSigned
George Galloway11/11/2013Bradford WestRespectSigned
Ian Mearns11/11/2013GatesheadLabourSigned
Gordon Marsden11/11/2013Blackpool SouthLabourSigned
Andrew Love18/11/2013EdmontonLabourSigned
David Anderson18/11/2013BlaydonLabourSigned
Mike Wood18/11/2013Batley and SpenLabourSigned
Tom Clarke19/11/2013Coatbridge, Chryston and BellshillLabourSigned
Stephen Hepburn19/11/2013JarrowLabourSigned
Geraint Davies20/11/2013Swansea WestLabourSigned
Fabian Hamilton27/11/2013Leeds North EastLabourSigned
Hugh Bayley02/12/2013York CentralLabourSigned
David Lammy02/12/2013TottenhamLabourSigned
Andy Slaughter05/12/2013HammersmithLabourSigned
Si16/12/2013Swansea EastLabourSigned
Kevin Barron17/12/2013Rother ValleyLabourSigned
Joan Walley18/12/2013Stoke-on-Trent NorthLabourSigned
Natascha Engel06/01/2014North East DerbyshireLabourSigned
Jim Cunningham29/01/2014Coventry SouthLabourSigned
Rosie Cooper24/02/2014West LancashireLabourSigned

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