BREASTFEEDING MANIFESTO AND LEGISLATION ON PROTECTION FOR BREASTFEEDING WOMEN

Early day motion 1504, tabled 17 May 2007 by Lynne Jones (Labour). Signed by 63 members.

That this House supports National Breastfeeding Awareness Week and encourages hon. Members to sign the Breastfeeding Manifesto at www.breastfeedingmanifesto.org.uk; notes that Scottish law outlaws discrimination against women breastfeeding in places to which members of the public have access; and calls on the Government to extend this protection to all women in the UK, making it an offence to prevent or stop a person in charge of a child who is otherwise permitted to be in a public place or licensed premises from feeding milk to that child in that place or on those premises and to make provision in relation to the promotion of breastfeeding.

Signatures by party: Labour 40, Liberal Democrat 18, Social Democratic and Labour Party 2, Conservative 1, Scottish National Party 1, UUP 1.