Mental Capacity Bill

EDM number 336 in 2004-05, proposed by Iain Duncan Smith on 07/12/2004.

That this House notes the most recent report from the Joint Committee on Human Rights which is severely critical of sections of the Mental Capacity Bill; notes in particular the criticism of those sections dealing with the withholding and withdrawing of life-sustaining treatment and of assisted food and fluids; further notes the conclusion that the presumption in favour of life-sustaining treatment in relation to the withdrawal of assisted food and fluids is not sufficiently strong in the Bill to satisfy the requirements of the European Convention on Human Rights (Articles 2, 3 and 8); believes that it would be disastrous if the Bill, which has the laudable aim of seeking to transform the lives of mentally incapacitated individuals and their carers, were to become a vehicle for the introduction of euthanasia; regrets that, despite Government assurances, the declaratory provision in Clause 58 that nothing in the Bill is to be taken to affect the law relating to murder, manslaughter and suicide is not sufficient to rule out the threat of euthanasia by omission posed by the Bill; and calls upon the Government to take note of the report from the Joint Committee on Human Rights and to amend the Mental Capacity Bill to make it clear that it gives no statutory authority to any decision made with a purpose of bringing about the death of the person about whose personal welfare the decision is made.

This motion has been signed by a total of 114 MPs, 3 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Iain Duncan Smith	07/12/2004	Chingford & Woodford Green	Conservative	Proposed
Janet Anderson	07/12/2004	Rossendale & Darwen	Labour	Signed
Damian Green	07/12/2004	Ashford	Conservative	Signed
George Galloway	07/12/2004	Glasgow, Kelvin	Independent	Signed
Adrian Flook	07/12/2004	Taunton	Conservative	Signed
Frank Field	07/12/2004	Birkenhead	Labour	Signed
Huw Edwards	07/12/2004	Monmouth	Labour	Signed
Jim Dobbin	07/12/2004	Heywood & Middleton	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Hilton Dawson	07/12/2004	Lancaster & Wyre	Labour	Signed
Claire Curtis-Thomas	07/12/2004	Crosby	Labour	Signed
David Crausby	07/12/2004	Bolton North East	Labour	Signed
Derek Conway	07/12/2004	Old Bexley & Sidcup	Conservative	Signed
Sydney Chapman	07/12/2004	Chipping Barnet	Conservative	Signed
Joe Benton	07/12/2004	Bootle	Labour	Signed
George Stevenson	07/12/2004	Stoke-on-Trent South	Labour	Signed
Paul Stinchcombe	07/12/2004	Wellingborough	Labour	Signed
Nicholas Winterton	07/12/2004	Macclesfield	Conservative	Signed
Ann Winterton	07/12/2004	Congleton	Conservative	Signed
John Wilkinson	07/12/2004	Ruislip - Northwood	Conservative	Signed
Ann Widdecombe	07/12/2004	Maidstone & The Weald	Conservative	Signed
Angela Watkinson	07/12/2004	Upminster	Conservative	Signed
Robert Wareing	07/12/2004	Liverpool, West Derby	Labour	Signed
Robert Walter	07/12/2004	North Dorset	Conservative	Signed
Keith Vaz	07/12/2004	Leicester East	Labour	Signed
Bill Tynan	07/12/2004	Hamilton South	Labour	Signed
Dennis Turner	07/12/2004	Wolverhampton South East	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Teddy Taylor	07/12/2004	Rochford & Southend East	Conservative	Signed
Desmond Swayne	07/12/2004	New Forest West	Conservative	Signed
Ben Chapman	07/12/2004	Wirral South	Labour	Signed
Alistair Burt	07/12/2004	North East Bedfordshire	Conservative	Signed
Brian Iddon	07/12/2004	Bolton South East	Labour	Signed
Lindsay Hoyle	07/12/2004	Chorley	Labour	Signed
Martin Smyth	07/12/2004	Belfast South	UUP	Signed
Marsha Singh	07/12/2004	Bradford West	Labour	Signed
Richard Shepherd	07/12/2004	Aldridge-Brownhills	Conservative	Signed
Gillian Shephard	07/12/2004	South West Norfolk	Conservative	Signed
Andrew Selous	07/12/2004	South West Bedfordshire	Conservative	Signed
Bob Russell	07/12/2004	Colchester	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Randall	07/12/2004	Uxbridge	Conservative	Signed
John Pugh	07/12/2004	Southport	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Stephen Pound	07/12/2004	Ealing North	Labour	Signed
Kerry Pollard	07/12/2004	St Albans	Labour	Signed
Gerald Kaufman	07/12/2004	Manchester, Gorton	Labour	Signed
Peter Kilfoyle	07/12/2004	Liverpool, Walton	Labour	Signed
Andy King	07/12/2004	Rugby & Kenilworth	Labour	Signed
Paul Burstow	07/12/2004	Sutton & Cheam	Liberal Democrat	Signed
David Burnside	07/12/2004	South Antrim	UUP	Signed
Bill Olner	07/12/2004	Nuneaton	Labour	Signed
Alan Meale	07/12/2004	Mansfield	Labour	Signed
Kevin McNamara	07/12/2004	Kingston upon Hull North	Labour	Signed
David Marshall	07/12/2004	Glasgow, Shettleston	Labour	Signed
Seamus Mallon	07/12/2004	Newry & Armagh	Social Democratic and Labour Party	Signed
Julian Lewis	07/12/2004	New Forest East	Conservative	Signed
David Lidington	07/12/2004	Aylesbury	Conservative	Signed
Peter Lilley	07/12/2004	Hitchin & Harpenden	Conservative	Signed
Peter Luff	07/12/2004	Mid Worcestershire	Conservative	Signed
Andrew MacKinlay	07/12/2004	Thurrock	Labour	Signed
Roger Gale	08/12/2004	North Thanet	Conservative	Signed
Andrew George	08/12/2004	St Ives	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Paul Goodman	08/12/2004	Wycombe	Conservative	Signed
James Gray	08/12/2004	North Wiltshire	Conservative	Signed
Mike Hancock	08/12/2004	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Signed
David Atkinson	08/12/2004	Bournemouth East	Conservative	Signed
Harry Barnes	08/12/2004	North East Derbyshire	Labour	Signed
John Battle	08/12/2004	Leeds West	Labour	Signed
Gary Streeter	08/12/2004	South West Devon	Conservative	Signed
Nigel Waterson	08/12/2004	Eastbourne	Conservative	Signed
Jimmy Wray	08/12/2004	Glasgow, Baillieston	Labour	Signed
Michael Fallon	08/12/2004	Sevenoaks	Conservative	Signed
Jeffrey M Donaldson	08/12/2004	Lagan Valley	DUP	Signed
Andy Reed	08/12/2004	Loughborough	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Peter Robinson	08/12/2004	Belfast East	DUP	Signed
John Horam	08/12/2004	Orpington	Conservative	Signed
John Hume	08/12/2004	Foyle	Social Democratic and Labour Party	Signed
Nigel Jones	08/12/2004	Cheltenham	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Annette Brooke	08/12/2004	Mid Dorset & North Poole	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Simon Burns	08/12/2004	West Chelmsford	Conservative	Signed
Gregory Campbell	08/12/2004	East Londonderry	DUP	Signed
Martin Caton	08/12/2004	Gower	Labour	Signed
Tony Colman	08/12/2004	Putney	Labour	Signed
Nigel Dodds	08/12/2004	Belfast North	DUP	Signed
Richard Younger-Ross	09/12/2004	Teignbridge	Liberal Democrat	Signed
David Wilshire	09/12/2004	Spelthorne	Conservative	Signed
David Taylor	09/12/2004	North West Leicestershire	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Liam Fox	09/12/2004	Woodspring	Conservative	Signed
David Drew	09/12/2004	Stroud	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Denzil Davies	09/12/2004	Llanelli	Labour	Signed
John Cummings	09/12/2004	Easington	Labour	Signed
Lady Hermon	09/12/2004	North Down	UUP	Signed
Tom Clarke	13/12/2004	Coatbridge & Chryston	Labour	Signed
Tom Cox	13/12/2004	Tooting	Labour	Signed
Valerie Davey	13/12/2004	Bristol West	Labour	Signed
Quentin Davies	13/12/2004	Grantham & Stamford	Conservative	Signed
Philip Hammond	13/12/2004	Runnymede & Weybridge	Conservative	Signed
Vincent Cable	13/12/2004	Twickenham	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Julian Brazier	13/12/2004	Canterbury	Conservative	Signed
Michael Mates	13/12/2004	East Hampshire	Conservative	Signed
Oliver Letwin	13/12/2004	West Dorset	Conservative	Signed
Andrew Hunter	13/12/2004	Basingstoke	DUP	Signed
Simon Hughes	13/12/2004	North Southwark & Bermondsey	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Marion Roe	13/12/2004	Broxbourne	Conservative	Signed
Bob Spink	14/12/2004	Castle Point	Conservative	Signed
Roy Beggs	14/12/2004	East Antrim	UUP	Signed
Terry Lewis	15/12/2004	Worsley	Labour	Signed
Jackie Lawrence	20/12/2004	Preseli Pembrokeshire	Labour	Signed
Mohammad Sarwar	21/12/2004	Glasgow, Govan	Labour	Signed
David Amess	10/01/2005	Southend West	Conservative	Signed
Andrew Rosindell	13/01/2005	Romford	Conservative	Signed
Bill Etherington	18/01/2005	Sunderland North	Labour	Signed
John Hayes	09/02/2005	South Holland & The Deepings	Conservative	Signed
Parmjit Gill	06/04/2005	Leicester South	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Syd Rapson	Unknown			Withdrawn
Khalid Mahmood	Unknown			Withdrawn
Mark Hendrick	Unknown			Withdrawn

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