Join the Campaign for the NHS Reinstatement Bill and thousands of other NHS campaigners at the national demonstration 4th March 2017 – 12 pm Tavistock Square.

PLEASE NOTE:  This page was written prior to the General Election in May 2017. The information below is provided for historical interest only, and may refer to individuals that were MPs prior to the 2017 General Election.

On 13th July 2016, the NHS Reinstatement Bill was successfully presented in the House of Commons, by Margaret Greenwood, Labour MP for Wirral West.

The 11 named supporters of the Bill consisted of 9 Labour MPs, plus one Green and one Lib Dem – but sadly no SNP MPs (who are supporters of the Bill) – as follows:

• Caroline Lucas, Green MP for Brighton Pavilion
• Dawn Butler, Labour MP for Brent Central
• Stella Creasy, Labour MP for Walthamstow
• Nic Dakin, Labour MP for Scunthorpe
• Peter Dowd, Labour MP for Bootle
• Mike Kane, Labour MP for Wythenshawe and Sale East
• Liz McInnes, Labour MP for Heywood and Middleton
• Yasmin Qureshi, Labour MP for Bolton South East
• Marie Rimmer, Labour MP for St Helens and Whiston
• Stephen Twigg, Labour MP for Liverpool West Derby
• John Pugh, Lib Dem MP for Southport

 

Does your MP support the NHS Bill? Check if their name is below, and if it is – please thank them. And if it isn’t – please ask them to demonstrate their support publicly.

The ‘I support the NHS Bill‘ posters are available online here, or Margaret Greenwood has several in her office and is very happy for any MP to come and have their photo taken.

• Labour Party
• Green Party
• Liberal Democrats
• Plaid Cymru
• Scottish National Party
• Conservatives (there are currently no Conservative MPs supporting the NHS Bill)

 

If you think names should be added (or removed) from this list, please tweet us @nhsbillnow or email us: info@nhsbill2015.org

 

Labour MPs

Diane Abbott	Hackney North and Stoke Newington
Dave Anderson	Blaydon	Supporter of the NHS Bill
Roberta Blackman-Woods	City of Durham
Dawn Butler	Brent Central	NHS Bill sponsor (2016-2017)
Ronnie Campbell	Blyth Valley	Supporter of the NHS Bill
Jeremy Corbyn	Islington North	NHS Bill sponsor (11 March 2015)
Stella Creasey	Walthamstow	NHS Bill sponsor (2016-2017)
Alex Cunningham	Stockton
Nicholas Dakin	Scunthorpe	NHS Bill sponsor (2016-2017)
Peter Dowd	Bootle	NHS Bill sponsor (2016-2017)
Angela Eagle	Wallasey	Supporter of the NHS Bill
Mary Glindon	North Tyneside
Roger Godsiff	Birmingham, Hall Green	Supporter of the NHS Bill
Margaret Greenwood	Wirral West	Main NHS Bill sponsor (2016-2017)
Carolyn Harris	Swansea East
Kelvin Hopkins	Luton North	NHS Bill sponsor (11 March 2015 and 2015-2016)
Mike Kane	Wythenshawe and Sale East	NHS Bill sponsor (2016-2017)
Emma Lewell-Buck	South Shields
Clive Lewis	Norwich South
Rob Marris	Wolverhampton South West	NHS Bill sponsor (2015-2016)
Rachael Maskell	York Central
Chris Matheson	City of Chester
Andy McDonald	Middlesbrough
John McDonnell	Hayes and Harlington	NHS Bill sponsor (11 March 2015 and 2015-2016)
Liz McInnes	Heywood and Middleton	NHS Bill sponsor (2016-2017)
Grahame Morris	Easington	Supporter of the NHS Bill
Melanie Onn	Great Grimsby
Yasmin Qureshi	Bolton South East
Christina Rees	Neath
Jonathan Reynolds	Stalybridge & Hyde
Marie Rimmer	St Helens South and Whiston	NHS Bill sponsor (2016-2017)
Andy Slaughter	Hammersmith
Cat Smith	Lancaster and Fleetwood	NHS Bill sponsor (2015-2016)
Emily Thornberry	Islington South and Finsbury	Supporter of the NHS Bill
Jon Trickett	Hemsworth	Supporter of the NHS Bill
Stephen Twigg	Liverpool, West Derby	NHS Bill sponsor (2016-2017)

 

Green Party MPs

The Green Party as a whole supports the NHS Bill.

Caroline Lucas

Brighton Pavilion

Main NHS Bill sponsor (both on 11 March 2015 and for the 2015-2016 Bill).

 

 

Liberal Democrat MPs

John Pugh

Southport

NHS Bill sponsor for all three presentations of the Bill (11 March 2015, 2015-2016 and 2016-2017)

 

 

Plaid Cymru

Hywel Williams

Arfon

NHS Bill sponsor (both on 11 March 2015 and for the 2015-2016 Bill).

 

 

Scottish National Party (and ex-SNP Independent)

The SNP as a whole supports the NHS Bill. Since her election in 2015, Dr Philippa Whitford, their Health Spokesperson in Westminster has consistently and vocally backed the Bill.

Richard Arkless	Dumfries and Galloway
Hannah Bardell	Livingston
Mhairi Black	Paisley and Renfrewshire South
Ian Blackford	Skye and Lochaber
Kirsty Blackman	Aberdeen North
Phil Boswell	Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill
Deidre Brock	Edinburgh North and Leith
Alan Brown	Kilmarnock and Loudoun
Lisa Cameron	East Kilbride, Strathaven and Lesmahagow
Douglas Chapman	Dunfermline and West Fife
Joanna Cherry	Edinburgh South West
Ronnie Cowan	Inverclyde
Angela Crawley	Lanark and Hamilton East
Martyn Day	Linlithgow and East Falkirk
Martin Docherty	West Dunbartonshire
Stuart Donaldson	West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine
Marion Fellows	Motherwell and Wishaw
Margaret Ferrier	Rutherglen and Hamilton West
Stephen Gethins	North East Fife
Patricia Gibson	North Ayrshire and Arran
Patrick Grady	Glasgow North
Peter Grant	Glenrothes
Neil Gray	Airdrie and Shotts
Drew Hendry	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
Stewart Hosie	Dundee East	Joined in photoshoot for the first NHS Bill in 2015 to show his support.
George Kerevan	East Lothian
Calum Kerr	Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk
Chris Law	Dundee West
Angus MacNeil	Na h-Eileanan an Iar
Callum McCaig	Aberdeen South
Stuart McDonald	Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East
Stewart McDonald	Glasgow South
Natalie McGarry	Glasgow East
Anne McLaughlin	Glasgow North East
John McNally	Falkirk
Paul Monaghan	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross
Carol Monaghan	Glasgow North West
Roger Mullin	Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
Gavin Newlands	Paisley and Renfrewshire North
John Nicolson	East Dunbartonshire
Brendan O’Hara	Argyll and Bute
Kirsten Oswald	East Renfrewshire
Steven Paterson	Stirling
Angus Robertson	Moray
Alex Salmond	Gordon
Tasmina Sheikh	Ochil and South Perthshire
Tommy Sheppard	Edinburgh East
Chris Stephens	Glasgow South West
Alison Thewliss	Glasgow Central
Owen Thompson	Midlothian
Michael Weir	Angus
Corri Wilson	Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock
Eilidh Whiteford	Banff and Buchan	NHS Bill sponsor (11 March 2015 and 2015-2016)
Philippa Whitford	Ayrshire	NHS Bill sponsor (2015-2016)
Pete Wishart	Perth and North Perthshire
Michelle Thomson	Edinburgh West Independent (resigned SNP whip in Sept 2015)

 

 

 

Conservative MPs

No Conservative MPs have stated support for the NHS Bill.

 

With thanks to Nicola Hippisley for photography.

All Labour MPs are invited to take part in a group photo to show their support for the NHS Bill, organised by Margaret Greenwood MP.

10.30am on 22nd February 2017 at New Palace Yard, outside Westminster Hall.

Please ask your MP to show their support.

The Bill is so far down the list for its scheduled 2nd reading of the NHS Bill on 24th February 2017 it is unlikely to be debated so we are not asking MPs to be there. The photo shoot is therefore vital to demonstrate their support. 

The NHS Bill, presented by Margaret Greenwood MP (Labour, Wirral West), was scheduled for its Second Reading in Parliament on 4th November 2016.

Campaigners met outside the House of Commons in a rally of support. Over 100 individuals attended the non-stop rally – some went, some came. All got wet.

The rally was organised by Keep Our NHS Public and Health Campaigns Together on behalf of the Campaign for the NHS Reinstatement Bill.

Allyson Pollock and Peter Roderick – co-authors of the NHS Bill – spoke to the campaigners, and Margaret Greenwood MP wrote a statement of support while she had to remain in the chamber.

The great turn-out outside the House of Commons was not matched by action inside, as the NHS Bill debate was postponed until Friday 24th February 2017.

The campaign continues. Please ask your MP to support the NHS Bill.

For a full picture – here’s a great compilation of many of the speakers at the rally (18 mins)

 

 

A big thank you to (take a deep breath) – Cornwall KONP, Ealing Save Our NHS, Fighting4GranthamA&E, Green Party (Bromley) with Larry Saunders, Green Party Health Spokesperson, Greenwich KONP, Hackney KONP, Hands Off Our Horton, Health Campaigns Together, KONP national, Lambeth KONP, Momentum, Oxfordshire KONP, Save Lewisham Hospital Campaign, Save Our Hospitals – Hammersmith & Charing Cross, Save Our NHS, Save Wantage Hospital, South West London KONP, Sussex Defend Our NHS, Tower Hamlets KONP and all other individuals who came to support the NHS Bill.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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On 13th July 2016, the NHS Reinstatement Bill was successfully presented in the House of Commons, by Margaret Greenwood, Labour MP for Wirral West. The full text of the Bill – called the National Health Service Bill – was published on 28th October 2016.

“We are delighted that Margaret Greenwood is taking the NHS Reinstatement Bill forward, with cross party support. The continued destruction of the NHS in England under Simon Stevens’ plans will not stop without a new law restoring it to the founding principles.”

Peter Roderick, co-author of the NHS Reinstatement Bill

To help understand the clauses in the published NHS Bill explanatory notes are available here.

What next?

The NHS Bill is scheduled for to be debated – its ‘second reading’ – on 4th November 2016. It is fourth on the list of business for the day, so we do not expect there to be much, if any, time available for discussion. Whatever happens on the day, the campaign for the NHS Bill will continue.

It is important that we continue to keep the pressure on MPs of all parties to support the NHS Bill. You can help by:

• Add your name to the petition calling on MPs to back the NHS Bill
  
• Contact your MP asking them to support the NHS Bill. It is best to do this in your own words – but Momentum NHS have provided a tool on their website that you may find helpful.
• Show your support outside parliament on 4th November. Keep our NHS Public and Health Campaigns together are organising a rally from 11am to 1pm.

 

 

Diane Abbott, the Shadow Secretary of State for Health, used her speech at the Labour Party conference to explicitly state support for the NHS Reinstatement Bill.

“Under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership the Labour Party will be committed to halting and reversing the tide of privatisation and marketisation of the NHS. The Health and Social Care Act has fragmented the system, making it so much easier for the private sector to move in.

Conference, Labour in government will repeal the Health and Social Care Act. This means returning our NHS to what is was originally conceived as: a publically owned, publically funded, publically accountable universal service as outlined in the NHS Reinstatement Bill now being expertly piloted through Parliament by my colleague Margaret Greenwood, MP for Wirral West, with the support of the Labour leadership.“

Diane Abbott, Shadow Secretary of State for Health.
Labour Party Conference, 27 September 2016

You can watch her whole speech below. The section relating to the NHS Bill starts at around 7m and 40sec.

 

The Campaign for the NHS Reinstatement Bill warmly welcomes Jeremy Corbyn’s commitment as leader of the Labour Party to reverse the privatisation and marketisation of the NHS in England. This is a significant moment in three years of campaigning for legislation to reinstate the NHS which Jeremy, John McDonnell and a small number of Labour MPs have backed in the Commons alongside cross-party support from Green, SNP, Lib Dem and Plaid Cymru MPs. It is now essential that this commitment becomes official Labour Party policy.

Professor Allyson Pollock, co-author of the NHS Reinstatement Bill said:

“I am heartened by Jeremy Corbyn’s commitment to introduce legislation similar to the NHS Reinstatement Bill in order to end the systematic privatisation and marketisation of the NHS in England over many years and to reduce and end the burden of the private finance initiative. I also fully support the restoration of bursaries for student nurses.  Improving public health and reducing inequalities will not happen while public funds are diverted to shareholders of private companies away from patient care and staff.”

On 13th July 2016, the NHS Reinstatement Bill was successfully presented in the House of Commons, by Margaret Greenwood, Labour MP for Wirral West, with its second reading scheduled for 4th November 2016. Read more here.