<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><edm>
<id>40226</id>
<session>2009-10</session>
<number>641</number>
<title>Prescription Charges In Scotland (No. 2)</title>
<proposer id="10070">Russell Brown</proposer>
<date>2010-01-18</date>
<text>That this House notes that since 1 April 2009, cancer patients have been exempt from prescription charges in England, whereas in Scotland they will be required to pay £3 per prescription from 1 April 2010; congratulates the Government for this targeted and responsive measure; and is disappointed that the devolved Scottish administration is continuing to fail to provide the same support to those requiring prescription drugs to deal with cancer in Scotland, in a similarly timely manner.</text>
<topics>
	<topic>Diseases</topic>
	<topic>Medicine</topic>
</topics>
<signatures>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10070">Russell Brown</mp>
		<date>2010-01-18</date>
		<type>Proposed</type>
		<constituency>Dumfries &amp; Galloway</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10157">Ian Davidson</mp>
		<date>2010-01-18</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Glasgow South West</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11221">Jim Sheridan</mp>
		<date>2010-01-18</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Paisley &amp; Renfrewshire North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="14142">Lindsay Roy</mp>
		<date>2010-01-18</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Glenrothes</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="24697">William Bain</mp>
		<date>2010-01-18</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Glasgow North East</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10116">Tom Clarke</mp>
		<date>2010-01-18</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Coatbridge, Chryston &amp; Bellshill</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10170">Jim Dobbin</mp>
		<date>2010-01-18</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Heywood &amp; Middleton</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10141">David Crausby</mp>
		<date>2010-01-18</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bolton North East</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10105">Michael Clapham</mp>
		<date>2010-01-18</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Barnsley West &amp; Penistone</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10392">Rosemary McKenna</mp>
		<date>2010-01-18</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Cumbernauld, Kilsyth &amp; Kirkintilloch East</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10421">Eric Martlew</mp>
		<date>2010-01-18</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Carlisle</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10295">Lindsay Hoyle</mp>
		<date>2010-01-18</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Chorley</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10500">Andy Reed</mp>
		<date>2010-01-18</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Loughborough</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10258">Mike Hancock</mp>
		<date>2010-01-19</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Portsmouth South</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10274">Stephen Hepburn</mp>
		<date>2010-01-19</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Jarrow</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10541">Alan Simpson</mp>
		<date>2010-01-19</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Nottingham South</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="12004">Angus MacNeil</mp>
		<date>2010-01-20</date>
		<type>Withdrawn</type>
		<constituency>Na h-Eileanan an Iar</constituency>
		<party>Scottish National Party</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10089">Ronnie Campbell</mp>
		<date>2010-01-20</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Blyth Valley</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10166">Janet Dean</mp>
		<date>2010-01-20</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Burton</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10616">Rudi Vis</mp>
		<date>2010-01-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Finchley &amp; Golders Green</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10189">Bill Etherington</mp>
		<date>2010-01-25</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Sunderland North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10388">Anne McGuire</mp>
		<date>2010-01-26</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Stirling</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10142">Ann Cryer</mp>
		<date>2010-01-26</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Keighley</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10305">Eric Illsley</mp>
		<date>2010-01-27</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Barnsley Central</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10934">David Hamilton</mp>
		<date>2010-02-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Midlothian</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10128">Michael Connarty</mp>
		<date>2010-02-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Linlithgow &amp; Falkirk East</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
</signatures>
</edm>
