Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor David Burrowes (Conservative), on Tuesday, 19 February 2008, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 135 members in total.

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THE ANTHONY NOLAN TRUST AND THE NATIONAL CORD BLOOD PROGRAMME

That this House salutes the pioneering work of the Anthony Nolan Trust in establishing and maintaining a national database of bone marrow donors for which they recruit and tissue-type more than 20,000 new entrants each year, giving around 6,000 children and adults a chance of new life since 1974; notes with interest that the Trust, with the support of the East Midlands Development Agency, has begun the establishment of a new Cord Blood Bank which could become a National Cord Blood Programme of a scale to provide a truly national resource for access to umbilical blood stem cells for future treatment and research; believes that this development offers great hope for the future treatment of a wide range of serious medical conditions; and invites the Secretary of State for Health to take a lead in welcoming the Trust's five year aim to collect 50,000 cord blood units with 30,000 able to be used for research purposes.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

969 

Session

2007-08

Other sponsors

Jim Dobbin

Tim Farron

Robert Key

Andrew Dismore

Mike Penning

Subjects

Charities Health services Diseases Genetics

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk