<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><edm>
<id>11821</id>
<session>1995-96</session>
<number>1243</number>
<title>Age Discrimination In The Nhs</title>
<proposer id="10407">Alice Mahon</proposer>
<date>1996-10-14</date>
<text>That this House is shocked to note the decision by Hillingdon Hospital Trust to restrict treatment by age; is deeply concerned that treatment in this hospital is not to be made available according to medical criteria and believes that this decision breaches the principle that the NHS is available on the basis of medical need and not the ability to pay; therefore calls on the Secretary of State for Health urgently to investigate this inhumane decision which fundamentally undermines the founding principles of the NHS and to restore the availability of treatment in this hospital only on medically determined advice; and re-states that age discrimination is totally unacceptable.</text>
<topics>
</topics>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10407">Alice Mahon</mp>
		<date>1996-10-14</date>
		<type>Proposed</type>
		<constituency>Halifax</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10479">Peter Pike</mp>
		<date>1996-10-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Burnley</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10544">Dennis Skinner</mp>
		<date>1996-10-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bolsover</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10120">Ann Clwyd</mp>
		<date>1996-10-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Cynon Valley</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10250">John Gunnell</mp>
		<date>1996-10-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Leeds South and Morley</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10101">David Chidgey</mp>
		<date>1996-10-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Eastleigh</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10144">John Cummings</mp>
		<date>1996-10-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Easington</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="17275">Kenneth Eastham</mp>
		<date>1996-10-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Manchester, Blackley</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10230">Norman Godman</mp>
		<date>1996-10-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Greenock and Port Glasgow</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10026">Harry Barnes</mp>
		<date>1996-10-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North East Derbyshire</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10029">Hugh Bayley</mp>
		<date>1996-10-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>York, City of</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10597">Paddy Tipping</mp>
		<date>1996-10-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Sherwood</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10607">Dennis Turner</mp>
		<date>1996-10-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wolverhampton South East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10059">Keith Bradley</mp>
		<date>1996-10-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Manchester, Withington</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10432">Bill Michie</mp>
		<date>1996-10-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Sheffield, Heeley</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10485">Raymond Powell</mp>
		<date>1996-10-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ogmore</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10513">Ernie Ross</mp>
		<date>1996-10-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Dundee West</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10553">Martin Smyth</mp>
		<date>1996-10-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Belfast South</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="22158">Roy Hughes</mp>
		<date>1996-10-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Newport East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10323">Lynne Jones</mp>
		<date>1996-10-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Birmingham, Selly Oak</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="18209">Liz Lynne</mp>
		<date>1996-10-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Rochdale</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10375">John McAllion</mp>
		<date>1996-10-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Dundee East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="18408">William McKelvey</mp>
		<date>1996-10-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Kilmarnock &amp; Loudoun</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10025">Tony Banks</mp>
		<date>1996-10-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Newham North West</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10566">Gerry Steinberg</mp>
		<date>1996-10-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Durham, City of</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10618">Jim Wallace</mp>
		<date>1996-10-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Orkney &amp; Shetland</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10623">Robert Wareing</mp>
		<date>1996-10-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Liverpool, West Derby</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10639">Alan Williams</mp>
		<date>1996-10-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Swansea West</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10238">Tommy Graham</mp>
		<date>1996-10-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Renfrew West and Inverclyde</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="17366">Andrew Faulds</mp>
		<date>1996-10-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Warley East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10157">Ian Davidson</mp>
		<date>1996-10-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Glasgow, Govan</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10128">Michael Connarty</mp>
		<date>1996-10-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Falkirk East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10364">Ken Livingstone</mp>
		<date>1996-10-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Brent East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10359">Terry Lewis</mp>
		<date>1996-10-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Worsley</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10562">Rachel Squire</mp>
		<date>1996-10-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Dunfermline West</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10649">Audrey Wise</mp>
		<date>1996-10-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Preston</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
</signatures>
</edm>
