Election Candidates' Views:
We are delighted to say that we are getting coverage in local media;
let's make this a real election issue!
We contacted hundreds of Parliamentary Candidates in order to find out whether they support the following statement, which is based on the text of our most recent Early Day Motion (which has now closed):
I believe that the safety of medicines should be established by the most reliable methods available in order to reduce the large and increasing toll of serious adverse drug reactions*; and that the Government should initiate an unprecedented comparison of currently required animal tests with a set of human biology-based tests, to see which is the most effective means to predict the safety of medicines for patients.
If your local prospective parliamentary candidates are not listed, either they have not replied yet or it may be that we were unable to contact them. We urge you to let candidates know how important this issue is to you by contacting them yourselves, or raising the issue when they call round to canvass your support. Candidates & MPs are always more interested to hear what their constituents think! Please let us know if you get a response.
Please note: MPs standing for re-election who have previously shown
their support by signing EDM 569 or EDM 29 are not listed on this
page. Please click on the links to see lists of then-MPs who supported
these motions.
Candidates who support the statement |
| Name |
Constituency |
| Phil Edwards | Aberconwy | | Ian Jenkins | Aldridge-Brownhills | | Chris Took | Ashford | | Ian Saunders | Beverley and Holderness | | Mary Varrall | Bexhill and Battle | | Alasdair Murray | Bournemouth West | | David Ward | Bradford East | | Simon Burgess (Labour & Co-op) | Brighton Kemptown | | Juliet Williams (Dr) | Brighton Kemptown | | Caroline Lucas (Dr) | Brighton Pavillion | | Mike Popham | Bristol East | | Paul Harrod | Bristol North West | | Paul Smith | Bristol West | | Darren Johnson | Brockley Ward | | Jude Robinson | Camborne & Redruth (including Hayle) | | Tony Juniper | Cambridge | | Farida Aslam | Cardiff South & Penarth | | John Dixon | Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire | | Andrew Aalders-Dunthorne | Central Suffolk and North Ipswich Constituency. | | Eric Goodyer | Charnwood | | Alex Hilton | Chelsea & Fulham | | Cath Arakelian | Chingford and Woodford Green | | Duncan Hames | Chippenham | | Nicola Turner | Colne Valley | | Peter Hirst (Dr) | Congleton | | Chris Whiteside | Copeland | | Grahame Morris | Easington | | Gordon McCaskill | East Renfrewshire | | Bruce Hogan | Forest of Dean | | Keith Angus | Hackney North and Stoke Newington | | Richard Grayson (Dr) | Hemel Hempstead | | Andrew Duffield | Hexham | | Nigel Quinton | Hitchin & Harpenden | | Jill Wareham | Isle of White | | Tony Hill | Maidenhead | | Liz Leffman | Meon Valley | | Antony Calvert | Morley and Outwood | | Gail Coleshill | North East Somerset | | Brian Mathew (Dr) | North Somerset | | Debra Jordan | North-East Cambridgeshire | | Adrian Ramsay | Norwich South | | Ed Murphy | Peterborough | | Paul Rowen | Rochdale | | Peter Wilcock | Saffron Walden | | Alan Haselhurst (Sir) | Saffron Walden | | Peter Wilcock | Saffron Walden | | Diana Coad | Slough | | Sebastian Kindersley | South Cambridgeshire | | Simon Saggers | South Cambridgeshire | | Jonathan Chatfield | South East Cambridgeshire | | Jacquie Bell | Stockton South | | Howard Keal | Thirsk and Malton | | Caroline Pidgeon | Vauxhall | | Simon Reed | Wansbeck | | David Mowat | Warrington South | | Chris Bowers | Wealden | | Andy Merryfield | Wells | | Tessa Munt | Wells | | Prue Bray | Wokingham | | Hazel Thorpe | Worthing West | | Christian Vassie | York Central | | Susan Wade-Weeks | York Central | | Madeleine Kirk | York Outer |
Candidates who do not support the statement |
| Name |
Constituency |
| Ben Gummer | Ipswich | |
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| Key: |
| Conservative | | Green Party | | Independent | | Labour | | Liberal Democrat | | Plaid Cymru |
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