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<id>17433</id>
<session>1999-00</session>
<number>1103A5</number>
<title>Future Of Community Health Councils;amdt. Line 4:</title>
<proposer id="10213">Liam Fox</proposer>
<date>2000-11-16</date>
<text>leave out from 'Improvement' to end and add 'deplores the lack of prior consultation on the proposed abolition; rejects the Government's proposed alternatives as wholly inadequate; and calls on the Government to abandon its plans to abolish CHCs and to focus instead on promoting an open debate on reform of CHCs to ensure that they provide a genuinely independent and effective voice for patiens in the NHS.'.</text>
<topics>
</topics>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10213">Liam Fox</mp>
		<date>2000-11-16</date>
		<type>Proposed</type>
		<constituency>Woodspring</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10559">Caroline Spelman</mp>
		<date>2000-11-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Meriden</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10257">Philip Hammond</mp>
		<date>2000-11-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Runnymede &amp; Weybridge</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10670">Stephen O'Brien</mp>
		<date>2000-11-20</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Eddisbury</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10065">Julian Brazier</mp>
		<date>2000-11-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Canterbury</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10194">Michael Fallon</mp>
		<date>2000-11-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Sevenoaks</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10201">Howard Flight</mp>
		<date>2000-11-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Arundel &amp; South Downs</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10227">Christopher Gill</mp>
		<date>2000-11-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ludlow</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10040">John Bercow</mp>
		<date>2000-11-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Buckingham</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10580">Desmond Swayne</mp>
		<date>2000-11-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>New Forest West</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10582">Robert Syms</mp>
		<date>2000-11-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Poole</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10647">Nicholas Winterton</mp>
		<date>2000-11-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Macclesfield</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10373">Peter Luff</mp>
		<date>2000-11-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Mid Worcestershire</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10371">Tim Loughton</mp>
		<date>2000-11-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>East Worthing &amp; Shoreham</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10490">David Prior</mp>
		<date>2000-11-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North Norfolk</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10505">Laurence Robertson</mp>
		<date>2000-11-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Tewkesbury</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10520">David Ruffley</mp>
		<date>2000-11-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bury St Edmunds</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10289">John Horam</mp>
		<date>2000-11-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Orpington</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10344">Julie Kirkbride</mp>
		<date>2000-11-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bromsgrove</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10662">Jacqui Lait</mp>
		<date>2000-11-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Beckenham</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10352">Edward Leigh</mp>
		<date>2000-11-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Gainsborough</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10358">Julian Lewis</mp>
		<date>2000-11-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>New Forest East</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10468">Richard Ottaway</mp>
		<date>2000-11-22</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Croydon South</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10553">Martin Smyth</mp>
		<date>2000-11-22</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Belfast South</constituency>
		<party>UUP</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10509">Marion Roe</mp>
		<date>2000-11-22</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Broxbourne</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10312">Bernard Jenkin</mp>
		<date>2000-11-24</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North Essex</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10591">Teddy Taylor</mp>
		<date>2000-11-24</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Rochford &amp; Southend East</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10307">Michael Jack</mp>
		<date>2000-11-27</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Fylde</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10193">Michael Fabricant</mp>
		<date>2000-11-27</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Lichfield</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10009">David Amess</mp>
		<date>2000-11-27</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Southend West</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10316">Geoffrey Johnson Smith</mp>
		<date>2000-11-28</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wealden</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10362">Peter Lilley</mp>
		<date>2000-11-28</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hitchin &amp; Harpenden</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
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</edm>
