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)
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| Stella Creasey | Walthamstow | NHS Bill sponsor (2016-2017) |
| Alex Cunningham | Stockton |  |
| Nicholas Dakin | Scunthorpe | NHS Bill sponsor (2016-2017)
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| 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)
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| 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
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| 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).
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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)
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| 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.