43101
2010-12
2030
British Medical Association Motion On The Commission On Assisted Dying And The BBC
Jim Dobbin
2011-07-04
That this House applauds the motion passed by the British Medical Association Annual Conference condemning the Commission on Assisted Dying led by Lord Falconer as biased; regrets that such an important development failed to be given coverage by any BBC news programme; notes the strong campaign waged by the BBC network supporting Lord Falconer's Commission and changes in the law to allow euthanasia; further notes this has included five major programmes that have been sympathetic to assisted dying in the last three years with none against; further notes that BBC news programmes looked ahead to the Swiss referendum on assisted suicide on the day before it took place, covered it on the day as people went to the polls and then reported the result which supported euthanasia; further notes that in comparison the BBC failed to give any coverage to the BMA motion debated by British doctors at a conference of national importance to Britain, even though the BBC news staff had a representative present; further notes this as evidence of the ingrained bias of the BBC staff on the issue; calls on the Government to inform the Lord Patten of Barnes, Chairman of the BBC Trust, and Mr Mark Thompson, the Director General, that the Corporation's Royal Charter requiring it to take an impartial stand on all issues of public policy thus disbars BBC personnel from using the network to promote and develop their own campaigns on any issue; and urges that a thorough inquiry at the highest level should be established immediately.
Medical ethics
Jim Dobbin
2011-07-04
Proposed
Heywood and Middleton
Labour
Gary Streeter
2011-07-04
Seconded
South West Devon
Conservative
Fiona Bruce
2011-07-04
Seconded
Congleton
Conservative
David Crausby
2011-07-04
Seconded
Bolton North East
Labour
Greg Mulholland
2011-07-04
Seconded
Leeds North West
Liberal Democrat
Frank Field
2011-07-04
Seconded
Birkenhead
Labour
Angus MacNeil
2011-07-04
Signed
Na h-Eileanan an Iar
Scottish National Party
David Simpson
2011-07-05
Signed
Upper Bann
DUP
Mark Durkan
2011-07-05
Signed
Foyle
Social Democratic and Labour Party
Alan Meale
2011-07-06
Signed
Mansfield
Labour
Ronnie Campbell
2011-07-06
Signed
Blyth Valley
Labour
Jim Shannon
2011-07-06
Signed
Strangford
DUP
Margaret Ritchie
2011-07-06
Signed
South Down
Social Democratic and Labour Party
Mary Glindon
2011-07-11
Signed
North Tyneside
Labour
Rosie Cooper
2011-07-14
Signed
West Lancashire
Labour
Anne Main
2011-07-18
Signed
St Albans
Conservative
Nigel Dodds
2011-07-19
Signed
Belfast North
DUP
Paul Goggins
2011-07-19
Signed
Wythenshawe and Sale East
Labour
Tony Cunningham
2011-07-20
Signed
Workington
Labour
Jimmy Hood
2011-09-05
Signed
Lanark and Hamilton East
Labour
David Amess
2011-09-05
Signed
Southend West
Conservative
Peter Lilley
2011-10-10
Signed
Hitchin and Harpenden
Conservative