Gordon Aikman BEM (EDM916)

Gordon Aikman BEM

EDM number 916 in 2016-17, proposed by Wes Streeting on 03/02/2017.
Categorised under the topics of Diseases, Health services and Research and innovation.

That this House celebrates the life and legacy of Gordon Aikman BEM and mourns his death; notes the enormous contribution that Gordon Aikman made to Scottish politics; is in awe of his selfless campaigning work following his diagnosis with Motor Neurone Disease (MND) at the age of 29; welcomes the success of Gordon's Fightback campaign in securing public funding for MND nurses, a doubling of the number of MND nurses in Scotland, additional support to help MND sufferers to communicate, and a living wage for carers; regrets that Gordon Aikman's call for extra funding for research into MND has not yet been answered; calls on the Government to double funding for research into MND; and sends its deepest condolences to Gordon Aikman's husband, Joe Pike, his family and wide group of friends.

This motion has been signed by a total of 45 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Wes Streeting	03/02/2017	Ilford North	Labour	Proposed
Peter Kyle	03/02/2017	Hove	Labour	Seconded
Angela Eagle	03/02/2017	Wallasey	Labour	Seconded
Alison McGovern	03/02/2017	Wirral South	Labour	Seconded
Stephen Doughty	03/02/2017	Cardiff South and Penarth	Labour	Seconded
Ian Murray	03/02/2017	Edinburgh South	Labour	Seconded
Stella Creasy	03/02/2017	Walthamstow	Labour	Signed
Adrian Bailey	03/02/2017	West Bromwich West	Labour	Signed
Ruth Smeeth	03/02/2017	Stoke-on-Trent North	Labour	Signed
Julie Elliott	03/02/2017	Sunderland Central	Labour	Signed
Toby Perkins	03/02/2017	Chesterfield	Labour	Signed
Rushanara Ali	03/02/2017	Bethnal Green and Bow	Labour	Signed
Anna Turley	03/02/2017	Redcar	Labour/Co-operative	Signed
Luciana Berger	03/02/2017	Liverpool, Wavertree	Labour	Signed
Mary Creagh	03/02/2017	Wakefield	Labour	Signed
Catherine McKinnell	03/02/2017	Newcastle upon Tyne North	Labour	Signed
Graham Jones	03/02/2017	Hyndburn	Labour	Signed
Mike Gapes	03/02/2017	Ilford South	Labour	Signed
Chris Law	06/02/2017	Dundee West	Scottish National Party	Signed
Peter Bottomley	06/02/2017	Worthing West	Conservative	Signed
Gordon Marsden	06/02/2017	Blackpool South	Labour	Signed
Kelvin Hopkins	06/02/2017	Luton North	Labour	Signed
Jim Shannon	06/02/2017	Strangford	DUP	Signed
Chris Stephens	06/02/2017	Glasgow South West	Scottish National Party	Signed
Stewart McDonald	07/02/2017	Glasgow South	Scottish National Party	Signed
Alison Thewliss	07/02/2017	Glasgow Central	Scottish National Party	Signed
Alan Meale	07/02/2017	Mansfield	Labour	Signed
Alasdair McDonnell	07/02/2017	Belfast South	Social Democratic and Labour Party	Signed
Martyn Day	07/02/2017	Linlithgow and East Falkirk	Scottish National Party	Signed
John McNally	08/02/2017	Falkirk	Scottish National Party	Signed
Carol Monaghan	08/02/2017	Glasgow North West	Scottish National Party	Signed
Kirsten Oswald	08/02/2017	East Renfrewshire	Scottish National Party	Signed
Natalie McGarry	08/02/2017	Glasgow East	Scottish National Party	Signed
Alex Salmond	09/02/2017			Signed
Neil Gray	09/02/2017	Airdrie and Shotts	Scottish National Party	Signed
Drew Hendry	09/02/2017	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey	Scottish National Party	Signed
Margaret Ferrier	09/02/2017	Rutherglen and Hamilton West	Scottish National Party	Signed
Marion Fellows	20/02/2017	Motherwell and Wishaw	Scottish National Party	Signed
Angus MacNeil	20/02/2017	Na h-Eileanan an Iar	Scottish National Party	Signed
Alan Brown	20/02/2017	Kilmarnock and Loudoun	Scottish National Party	Signed
John Nicolson	20/02/2017	East Dunbartonshire	Scottish National Party	Signed
Philippa Whitford	20/02/2017	Central Ayrshire	Scottish National Party	Signed
Vernon Coaker	21/02/2017	Gedling	Labour	Signed
Owen Thompson	23/02/2017	Midlothian	Scottish National Party	Signed
Stephen Gethins	02/03/2017	North East Fife	Scottish National Party	Signed

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