Joseph Scholes

EDM number 1423 in 2003-04, proposed by Chris Ruane on 30/06/2004.

That this House notes that Joseph Scholes was a 16 year old boy who hanged himself in Stoke Heath Young Offenders Institution on 24th March 2002 just nine days into a two year sentence; further notes despite being recognised by all concerned as a deeply disturbed child he was allocated to Prison Service accommodation without the standards of care needed for such a vulnerable child; further notes that the number of children sent to prison has doubled in the last 10 years, with increasingly younger children being given custody, and that concern has been expressed by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and the Joint Committee on Human Rights on the practice of sentencing children to custody; further notes that, since 1990, 25 children have taken their own lives in prisons and that Yvonne Scholes, Joseph's mother has, together with INQUEST and Nacro and supported by key penal and children's rights organisations and charities as well as honourable Members and Members of the House of Lords, called for a public inquiry; further notes that the Coroner, as part of his public duty to prevent the recurrence of fatalities, reported to the Home Secretary following the inquest into Joseph's death that there should be a public inquiry; and therefore calls upon the Government to set up a comprehensive public inquiry to deal with the many issues concerning Joseph's death so that lessons can be learnt about the treatment of children in the criminal justice system.

This motion has been signed by a total of 111 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Chris Ruane	30/06/2004	Vale of Clwyd	Labour	Proposed
Ann Clwyd	30/06/2004	Cynon Valley	Labour	Signed
David Crausby	30/06/2004	Bolton North East	Labour	Signed
Jim Cunningham	30/06/2004	Coventry South	Labour	Signed
Jim Dobbin	30/06/2004	Heywood & Middleton	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Brian H Donohoe	30/06/2004	Cunninghame South	Labour	Signed
Win Griffiths	30/06/2004	Bridgend	Labour	Signed
Harry Barnes	30/06/2004	North East Derbyshire	Labour	Signed
Roy Beggs	30/06/2004	East Antrim	UUP	Signed
Ronnie Campbell	30/06/2004	Blyth Valley	Labour	Signed
Bill O'Brien	30/06/2004	Normanton	Labour	Signed
Kevin McNamara	30/06/2004	Kingston upon Hull North	Labour	Signed
Stephen Pound	30/06/2004	Ealing North	Labour	Signed
Gordon Prentice	30/06/2004	Pendle	Labour	Signed
Syd Rapson	30/06/2004	Portsmouth North	Labour	Signed
Jim Sheridan	30/06/2004	West Renfrewshire	Labour	Signed
Dennis Skinner	30/06/2004	Bolsover	Labour	Signed
Elfyn Llwyd	30/06/2004	Meirionnydd Nant Conwy	Plaid Cymru	Signed
Ian Lucas	30/06/2004	Wrexham	Labour	Signed
Alice Mahon	30/06/2004	Halifax	Labour	Signed
Rudi Vis	01/07/2004	Finchley & Golders Green	Labour	Signed
Ann Cryer	01/07/2004	Keighley	Labour	Signed
Martin Caton	01/07/2004	Gower	Labour	Signed
Glenda Jackson	01/07/2004	Hampstead & Highgate	Labour	Signed
Eric Illsley	01/07/2004	Barnsley Central	Labour	Signed
Kelvin Hopkins	01/07/2004	Luton North	Labour	Signed
Betty Williams	05/07/2004	Conwy	Labour	Signed
Paul Flynn	05/07/2004	Newport West	Labour	Signed
Valerie Davey	05/07/2004	Bristol West	Labour	Signed
Jeremy Corbyn	05/07/2004	Islington North	Labour	Signed
Lady Hermon	06/07/2004	North Down	UUP	Signed
Lynne Jones	06/07/2004	Birmingham, Selly Oak	Labour	Signed
Helen Clark	06/07/2004	Peterborough	Labour	Signed
Bill Etherington	06/07/2004	Sunderland North	Labour	Signed
Dennis Turner	07/07/2004	Wolverhampton South East	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Harold Best	07/07/2004	Leeds North West	Labour	Signed
Janet Anderson	07/07/2004	Rossendale & Darwen	Labour	Signed
Annette Brooke	07/07/2004	Mid Dorset & North Poole	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John McDonnell	07/07/2004	Hayes & Harlington	Labour	Signed
Edward Davey	12/07/2004	Kingston & Surbiton	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Mike Hancock	12/07/2004	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Vera Baird	13/07/2004	Redcar	Labour	Signed
Keith Bradley	13/07/2004	Manchester, Withington	Labour	Signed
Alan Meale	13/07/2004	Mansfield	Labour	Signed
Marsha Singh	13/07/2004	Bradford West	Labour	Signed
Sue Doughty	14/07/2004	Guildford	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Austin	14/07/2004	Erith & Thamesmead	Labour	Signed
Pete Wishart	15/07/2004	North Tayside	Scottish National Party	Signed
Sandra Gidley	15/07/2004	Romsey	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Janet Dean	15/07/2004	Burton	Labour	Signed
Patsy Calton	15/07/2004	Cheadle	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Alex Salmond	15/07/2004	Banff & Buchan	Scottish National Party	Signed
Adam Price	15/07/2004	Carmarthen East & Dinefwr	Plaid Cymru	Signed
Julie Morgan	15/07/2004	Cardiff North	Labour	Signed
Alan Simpson	16/07/2004	Nottingham South	Labour	Signed
Hilton Dawson	19/07/2004	Lancaster & Wyre	Labour	Signed
Menzies Campbell	19/07/2004	Fife North East	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Mark Oaten	19/07/2004	Winchester	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Adrian Sanders	19/07/2004	Torbay	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Michael Weir	20/07/2004	Angus	Scottish National Party	Signed
Joan Walley	20/07/2004	Stoke-on-Trent North	Labour	Signed
Anne Campbell	20/07/2004	Cambridge	Labour	Signed
Tom Brake	20/07/2004	Carshalton & Wallington	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Nigel Jones	20/07/2004	Cheltenham	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Mohammad Sarwar	21/07/2004	Glasgow, Govan	Labour	Signed
Vincent Cable	22/07/2004	Twickenham	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Simon Thomas	07/09/2004	Ceredigion	Plaid Cymru	Signed
Alan Beith	07/09/2004	Berwick-upon-Tweed	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Matthew Green	07/09/2004	Ludlow	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Alistair Carmichael	07/09/2004	Orkney & Shetland	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Richard Burden	07/09/2004	Birmingham, Northfield	Labour	Signed
Martyn Jones	07/09/2004	Clwyd South	Labour	Signed
Christine Russell	07/09/2004	Chester, City of	Labour	Signed
David Lepper	08/09/2004	Brighton, Pavilion	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Peter Bradley	08/09/2004	Wrekin, The	Labour	Signed
John Barrett	14/09/2004	Edinburgh West	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Iris Robinson	14/09/2004	Strangford	DUP	Signed
Julia Drown	16/09/2004	South Swindon	Labour	Signed
Colin Breed	11/10/2004	South East Cornwall	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Harry Cohen	11/10/2004	Leyton & Wanstead	Labour	Signed
Barbara Follett	11/10/2004	Stevenage	Labour	Signed
Neil Gerrard	13/10/2004	Walthamstow	Labour	Signed
John Cryer	14/10/2004	Hornchurch	Labour	Signed
Peter Kilfoyle	14/10/2004	Liverpool, Walton	Labour	Signed
Brian Iddon	14/10/2004	Bolton South East	Labour	Signed
Paul Farrelly	15/10/2004	Newcastle-under-Lyme	Labour	Signed
Edward O'Hara	18/10/2004	Knowsley South	Labour	Signed
Andrew George	18/10/2004	St Ives	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Bill Tynan	18/10/2004	Hamilton South	Labour	Signed
Mike Wood	19/10/2004	Batley & Spen	Labour	Signed
David Winnick	19/10/2004	Walsall North	Labour	Signed
Keith Vaz	19/10/2004	Leicester East	Labour	Signed
Don Foster	19/10/2004	Bath	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Jim Cousins	19/10/2004	Newcastle upon Tyne Central	Labour	Signed
Brian Sedgemore	19/10/2004	Hackney South & Shoreditch	Labour	Signed
Clive Soley	20/10/2004			Signed
Greg Pope	21/10/2004	Hyndburn	Labour	Signed
David Taylor	25/10/2004	North West Leicestershire	Labour Co-operative	Signed
John Grogan	25/10/2004	Selby	Labour	Signed
Roger Godsiff	25/10/2004	Birmingham, Sparkbrook & Small Heath	Labour	Signed
Simon Hughes	25/10/2004	North Southwark & Bermondsey	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Joan Ruddock	25/10/2004	Lewisham, Deptford	Labour	Signed
Peter Pike	26/10/2004	Burnley	Labour	Signed
Brian Cotter	27/10/2004	Weston-Super-Mare	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Chris McCafferty	27/10/2004	Calder Valley	Labour	Signed
Phil Sawford	27/10/2004	Kettering	Labour	Signed
Richard Taylor	01/11/2004	Wyre Forest	Independent	Signed
Mark Tami	03/11/2004	Alyn & Deeside	Labour	Signed
Andy King	08/11/2004	Rugby & Kenilworth	Labour	Signed
Paul Stinchcombe	08/11/2004	Wellingborough	Labour	Signed
Graham Brady	09/11/2004	Altrincham & Sale West	Conservative	Signed

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