RIGHT HON MEMBER FOR PENRITH AND THE BORDER

Early day motion 1560, tabled 23 May 2007 by David Taylor (Labour). Signed by 120 members.

That this House salutes the bravery with which the right hon. Member for Penrith and The Border has for several years defied the onset of multiple sclerosis so crippling that a less determined person would have been confined to a wheelchair long ago; endorses the decision of the House of Commons Department of Finance and Administration to approve his purchase of an outdoor vehicle, from the appropriate Parliamentary allowance, to enable him to negotiate the largest rural constituency in England; and accordingly condemns the journalists and broadcasters who sensationalised this story for playing down, and in some cases not even mentioning, the devastating effects of his illness and his refusal to give in to it.

Signatures by party: Labour 57, Conservative 46, Liberal Democrat 10, DUP 2, Independent 2, Plaid Cymru 1, Scottish National Party 1, Social Democratic and Labour Party 1.