Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor David Leslie Taylor (Labour and Co-operative Party), on Wednesday, 23 May 2007, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 120 members in total.

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RIGHT HON MEMBER FOR PENRITH AND THE BORDER

That this House salutes the bravery with which the right hon. Member for Penrith and The Border has for several years defied the onset of multiple sclerosis so crippling that a less determined person would have been confined to a wheelchair long ago; endorses the decision of the House of Commons Department of Finance and Administration to approve his purchase of an outdoor vehicle, from the appropriate Parliamentary allowance, to enable him to negotiate the largest rural constituency in England; and accordingly condemns the journalists and broadcasters who sensationalised this story for playing down, and in some cases not even mentioning, the devastating effects of his illness and his refusal to give in to it.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

1560 

Session

2006-07

Other sponsors

Ann Widdecombe

Peter Luff

Stephen Pound

Lord Watson of Wyre Forest

Lord Davies of Stamford

Subjects

Allowances Multiple sclerosis Blencathra, Lord Quad bikes

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk