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Mental Health Awareness Week 2016

EDM number 18 in 2016-17, proposed by Margaret Ferrier on 18/05/2016.
Categorised under the topics of Charities, Health education and preventive medicine, Health services and Mental health.

That this House recognises Mental Health Awareness Week 2016, which runs from 16 May until 22 May 2016; notes that this is an awareness campaign dedicated to highlighting sufferers of mental health problems, looking particularly at how relationships are essential to maintaining good mental health; acknowledges that mental illness is one of the major public health challenges in the UK, whereby around one in three people in Scotland and one in four people in England are estimated to be affected by such illnesses in any one year; commends charities, such as the Mental Health Foundation, the Scottish Association for Mental Health, SANE and many others, that work to support sufferers of mental health issues; recognises that the Scottish Government will now implement a new 10 year plan to transform mental health and invest an additional £150 million to improve mental health services; and calls on the UK Government to ensure that services are fully equipped to deal with the increasing problem of mental health that is affecting many people across the UK.

This motion has been signed by a total of 44 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Margaret Ferrier18/05/2016Rutherglen and Hamilton WestScottish National PartyProposed
Roger Mullin18/05/2016Kirkcaldy and CowdenbeathScottish National PartySeconded
Mark Durkan18/05/2016FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySeconded
Gavin Newlands19/05/2016Paisley and Renfrewshire NorthScottish National PartySeconded
Alan Brown19/05/2016Kilmarnock and LoudounScottish National PartySeconded
Bob Blackman19/05/2016Harrow EastConservativeSeconded
Margaret Ritchie19/05/2016South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Chris Stephens19/05/2016Glasgow South WestScottish National PartySigned
Jim Cunningham19/05/2016Coventry SouthLabourSigned
Liz Saville Roberts19/05/2016Dwyfor MeirionnyddPlaid CymruSigned
Ian Blackford19/05/2016Ross, Skye and LochaberScottish National PartySigned
Hywel Williams19/05/2016ArfonPlaid CymruSigned
Jim Shannon19/05/2016StrangfordDUPSigned
Patrick Grady19/05/2016Glasgow NorthScottish National PartySigned
Natalie McGarry19/05/2016Glasgow EastScottish National PartySigned
Kirsten Oswald19/05/2016East RenfrewshireScottish National PartySigned
John Nicolson19/05/2016East DunbartonshireScottish National PartySigned
Paul Monaghan19/05/2016Caithness, Sutherland and Easter RossScottish National PartySigned
John McNally23/05/2016FalkirkScottish National PartySigned
Martyn Day23/05/2016Linlithgow and East FalkirkScottish National PartySigned
Alison Thewliss23/05/2016Glasgow CentralScottish National PartySigned
Alan Meale23/05/2016MansfieldLabourSigned
Ronnie Cowan23/05/2016InverclydeScottish National PartySigned
Ruth Cadbury23/05/2016Brentford and IsleworthLabourSigned
Tom Elliott23/05/2016Fermanagh and South TyroneUUPSigned
Owen Thompson24/05/2016MidlothianScottish National PartySigned
Stuart Donaldson24/05/2016West Aberdeenshire and KincardineScottish National PartySigned
Phil Boswell24/05/2016Coatbridge, Chryston and BellshillScottish National PartySigned
Martin Docherty24/05/2016West DunbartonshireScottish National PartySigned
George Howarth24/05/2016KnowsleyLabourSigned
Angus MacNeil24/05/2016Na h-Eileanan an IarScottish National PartySigned
Neil Gray25/05/2016Airdrie and ShottsScottish National PartySigned
Marion Fellows25/05/2016Motherwell and WishawScottish National PartySigned
Philippa Whitford25/05/2016Central AyrshireScottish National PartySigned
Joanna Cherry25/05/2016Edinburgh South WestScottish National PartySigned
Douglas Chapman26/05/2016Dunfermline and West FifeScottish National PartySigned
Chris Law26/05/2016Dundee WestScottish National PartySigned
Deidre Brock26/05/2016Edinburgh North and LeithScottish National PartySigned
Tasmina Sheikh06/06/2016Ochil and South PerthshireScottish National PartySigned
Stephen Hepburn06/06/2016JarrowLabourSigned
Hannah Bardell06/06/2016LivingstonScottish National PartySigned
Nigel Dodds07/06/2016Belfast NorthDUPSigned
Angela Crawley08/06/2016Lanark and Hamilton EastScottish National PartySigned
Mhairi Black04/07/2016Paisley and Renfrewshire SouthScottish National PartySigned

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