Stephen Dorrell
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Stephen Dorrell is the Conservative MP for Charnwood. He entered Parliament in 1979 as MP for Loughborough, and at the 1997 general election, following boundary changes, became MP for Charnwood.
Dorrell was Secretary of State for Health from 1995 until the 1997 general election. In June 2010 the House of Commons elected his as head of the Commons' Health Committee.
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Abortion
In May 2008 in the abortion amendments to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill (now Act), Stephen Dorrell voted to keep the current time limit of 24 weeks in line with the scientific and medical consensus[1].
Homeopathy
Stephen Dorrell signed the March 2007 Early Day Motion 1240 calling for the positive recognition of NHS homeopathic hospitals[2].
Climate Change
In 2006, MPs were asked three questions by the Rough Guide's Mark Ellingham on how seriously they took climate change as politicians and as responsible, active citizens. Stephen Dorrell replied:
- "We all need to be much more serious about our commitment to this issue, which is why I have expressed my support for measures to be brought forward in a Climate Change Bill in this Parliament."[3]
Incomplete Clinical Trial Data
January 2013, speaking as Chair of the Commons' Health Committee, on publication of report on NICE:
- We are also concerned about the evidence we have received that some of the data supplied from clinical trials has been selective and incomplete. This situation cannot be allowed to continue, and we set out a number of practical steps that could be taken now to increase transparency about the results of clinical drug trials and which would benefit everyone: patients, clinicians and the pharmaceutical industry.[4]
References
- ↑ http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmselect/cmsctech/1045/104502.htm
- ↑ http://www.parliament.uk/edm/2006-07/1240
- ↑ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/climate-change-what-mps-think--a-to-c-424376.html
- ↑ http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/health-committee/news/13-01-15/
External Links
- http://www.stephendorrell.org.uk/
- http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/commons/stephen-dorrell/25769
- http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/?pid=10175
- http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?id=uk.org.publicwhip/member/1490
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Dorrell
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