EDM Watch - Part 1

We have neglected our regular Early Day Motion summary (as assisted by edm.ais.co.uk) for too long and, frankly, can't face doing the whole thing in one go as SG's been very busy. So first off, some of those EDM's Sandra signed at the end of 2004.

• OFCOM and ITV regional programming
  
• Cystic fibrosis and prescription charges (no charges for people with CF)
  
• Gap between rich and poor
  
• Gap between high and low earners (not be confused with the EDM above)
  
• Impact of VAT on the voluntary sector
  
• Gift Aid and independent museums
  
• Health warning labels of alcoholic drinks (e.g., "Drinking may harm you and others around you")
  
• Slaughter of companion animals for food in China (stroke, don't eat)
  
• Sale of bananas in the Palace of Westminster (Recess Monkey's campaign)
  
• Combined heat and power (to reduce carbon emissions)
  
• Regulations implementing the landfill allowance trading scheme
  
• Canadian seal slaughter (deplorable)
  
• G8 and EU presidencies (for international development)
  
• Darfur
  
• Vulnerable children affected by HIV/AIDS
  
• Financial Assistance Scheme (insufficiently large)
  
• Abolition of the over thirty months scheme amendment
  
• Food supplements and medicinal products (protection against new directive)
  
• Blue Badge Scheme research
  
• Access to pensions (problems thereof)
  
• Contaminated blood products public inquiry (that there should be one)
  
• Alan Turing (that he was great)
  
• Pensioners' manifesto
  
• Housing (affordability)
  
• Justice for victims of Gulf War illnessess
  
• Patient access to medical technology and healthcare resource groups
  
• Macmillan Cancer Relief's Better Deal campaign (to "stop cancer spreading to people's finances")