OVERSEAS DRUG DONATIONS

Early day motion 11, tabled 14 May 1997 by Paul Flynn (Labour). Signed by 38 members.

That this House urges the government to use its influence to reduce the deaths and injuries caused by the donation of medicines to Third World and Eastern European countries; is angered by the deaths of 80 children in Haiti and 100 in Nigeria caused by contaminated cough medicines; and notes that pharmaceutical companies gain tax and other financial advantages by dumping medicinal drugs on unsophisticated communities.

Signatures by party: Labour 30, Liberal Democrat 4, Labour/Co-operative 2, Plaid Cymru 1, Unknown 1.