PROVISION OF PUBLIC TOILETS

Early day motion 568, tabled 12 July 2005 by Bob Spink (Conservative). Signed by 19 members.

That this House considers the provision of public toilets to be a vital public service and notes with regret the increasing tendency to close public toilets, and particularly the closures across Castle Point; recognises that these closures have a very serious impact on older people, disabled people and those with young families; further notes the recent National Consumer Council survey of 2,000 adults, which branded the UK's public toilets a national disgrace; and calls on the Government to enable and encourage Castle Point Borough Council in particular and all councils in general to provide and properly to maintain a decent range of public toilets and to make the provision of public toilets a statutory duty for local authorities.

Signatures by party: Labour 12, Conservative 3, Liberal Democrat 3, DUP 1.