EDMs signed by Mark Oaten to date this Parliamentary year

EDM 1 – Royal British Legion’s Military Covenant Campaign - urges all hon. and right hon. Members to pledge their support to the campaign to improve conditions in the areas of healthcare, compensation and support for bereaved families. 

EDM 2 – Cystic Fibrosis and Prescriptions Charges - believes people with cystic fibrosis should not have to pay prescription charges

EDM 3 – National Road Safety Week - urges the Government to ensure that every school teaches road safety and every local authority protects its children with 20 mph zones around schools and homes.

EDM 5 – First Aid Education in Schools - requests the Government to consider ways of promoting first aid education in schools.

EDM 7 – Recognition for those who served on RMS St Helena in the Falklands War - calls upon the Government to make amends for this slight against those who served on the RMS St Helena, and who risked their lives, by amending the criteria so that they can be awarded the South Atlantic Medal following commemorations of the 25th anniversary of the Falklands War.

EDM 13 – Single Farm Payments - calls on the Government to give all English farmers at least 80 per cent. of their due payment by 25th December, helping them to have the financial certainty they need to continue producing the best food in the world.

EDM 19 – Rural Poverty - calls on the Government to ensure that central and local decision-making takes into account rural communities and that policies encourage local opportunities as well as tackling rural disadvantage.

EDM 43 – Information Prescriptions for People with Diabetes - calls on the Government to ensure that the NHS at a local level provides diabetes care and support

EDM 65 – Parliament and decisions over US Missile Defence – seeks to ensure that this important defence and foreign policy issue is fully debated in Parliament. 

EDM 72 – Nuclear Weapons Convention - calls upon the Government to work to achieve progress on multilateral negotiations with the aim of achieving implementation of a nuclear weapons convention by 2020.

EDM 86 – Introduction of Smart Metering - calls on the Government to meet its commitment to smart metering contained in the Energy White Paper by introducing a programme for the full-scale rollout of smart metering within the next 10 years, in time to meet the Energy Services Directive.

EDM 88 – Land Rights of Indigenous People - calls upon the Government to ratify Convention 169 without further delay

EDM 95 – Honour the Brave Campaign - calls on the Government to ensure that all personnel in the Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force killed or wounded in enemy action are awarded a medal.

EDM 119 – Events in Armenia between 1915 – 1923 - That this House believes that the killing of over a million Armenians and over half a million Assyrians between 1915 and 1923 was an act of genocide; further believes that it is in the long-term interests of those countries involved to acknowledge this; and calls upon the Government to join others in formally recognising these events as constituting genocide.

EDM 136 – British Airway’s Ban on Surfboards, Windsurfers and Canoes - calls on British Airways urgently to reconsider its decision to ban surfboards, windsurfers and canoes from all flights

EDM 139 – Severn Bridges Toll - urges the Government to amend Regulation 5 of the Severn Bridges Act 1992 to allow the introduction of facilities to pay by card and online.

EDM 161 – Cheng Guang Cheng - calls on the Government to cancel all grants to groups providing money to countries with coercive family planning policies as well as demanding that Mr Cheng be released from prison without delay.

EDM 163 – Continuing Priority Access to Facilities - notes with continuing concern the announcement made on 9th October that `Members should have priority access to services throughout the Commons part of the Parliamentary Estate'.

EDM 164 – Japan’s Humpback Whale Hunt- calls on the Government to unequivocally condemn Japan's cruel, unnecessary and unlawful whaling activities and engage in increased diplomatic action at the highest levels to bring an end to commercial and scientific whaling.

EDM 173 – Dyslexia Awareness Week campaign - calls on Government to work with local authorities in England and Wales to improve educational support for dyslexic children.

EDM 176 – Wheelchair Services and Disabled Children - recognises the importance of enabling all disabled children to move around independently and to enjoy the freedom to live full and active lives with families and friends and is concerned that many children are forced to wait over a year or are simply unable to access appropriate mobility equipment and as a result risk developmental delay

EDM 188 – Packaging Waste - calls on the Government to take stronger action to curb excess packaging.

EDM 189 – Farepak - calls on the Government to introduce legislation to ensure that a Farepak-style collapse cannot happen again and for the Government to publish the report into the collapse of Farepak.

EDM 195- Local Planning Authorities: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy- calls on the Government to bring forward proposals in the 2007-08 parliamentary session to give councils a statutory right to use their development plan framework to set energy efficiency standards.

EDM 220 – Access to Healthcare - notes the commitment by the Home Office and the Department of Health to a joint review of overseas visitor access to the National Health Service

EDM 224 – Treatment of Christians in Iraq – Expressing concern at the mass exodus of Iraqi Christians and calls on the UK and Iraqi Governments to provide political and financial support for these people to reclaim their land and re settle.

EDM 293 - Midwives and Maternity Services - calls on the Government to provide sufficient funds so that women are supported by the same midwife throughout their pregnancy and have access to their choice of antenatal and postnatal care 

EDM 314- Snares - notes with concern that badgers, otters, domestic pets, livestock and other animals continue to be severely injured and killed by snares and calls on the Government to consult on the abolition of the manufacture, sale and use of all snares.

EDM 316 – Carbon Emissions and the Travel Buying Industry - welcomes the ICARUS environmental accreditation scheme to achieve absolute reductions in carbon dioxide emissions throughout the travel buying industry

EDM 321 – National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research - asks the Government to continue to acknowledge the value of 3Rs research and further demonstrate its support by continuing this level of funding.

EDM 333 – Restrictions in Nitrate Vulnerable Zones -  calls upon the Government to take into account the additional costs and reduced income for farms that these restrictions will entail and to act to ensure that this does not become another financial blow to the farming industry

EDM 350 – Heathrow Expansion - opposes any plans to reduce or end runway alternation or to build a third runway and 6th terminal at Heathrow

EDM 380 – Cardiff’s 101 Non-emergency Number - calls on the Home Department urgently to reconsider its decision over the future funding of the 101 service.

EDM 401 – Iraqi Employees - calls upon the Prime Minister to meet the UK's moral obligations by offering resettlement to all Iraqis who are threatened with death for the "crime" of helping British troops and diplomats.

EDM 417 – Bogus Clothing Collection Companies - condemns the practice of bogus clothing collection companies that use misleading leaflets to solicit clothing donations under the pretence of benevolent purposes

EDM 423 – Mass Extinction of Amphibians - urges the Government to take lead in promoting the conservation and preservation of the globally important habitats which sustain amphibians.

EDM 432 – Tune out Tinnitus Campaign – calls on the government to provide extra support and health services for sufferers.

EDM 457 – Eastern Daily Press Shop Here Campaign - recognises the aim of retaining local shops and post offices

EDM 487 – Young Carers and Carer’s Rights Day 2007 - notes the cross-party welcome given to members of the Young Carers' Forum at the All-Party Parliament Carers' Group

EDM 493 – Voting Age – calls upon the government to develop the necessary framework to reduce the voting age to 16. 

EDM 494 – Police Pay – calls upon the government to review its policy on police pay.

EDM 512 – Police Pay – calls upon the government to reconsider the failure to fully accept the recommendations of the Police Arbitration Tribunal police pay award

EDM 541 – Homelessness (No. 2) – calls for the government to take forward the recommendations made by Shelter.  

EDM 550 – Out of Town Shopping Centres- calls on the Government to retain key existing tests such as need, accessibility and scale and to strengthen, rather than weaken, planning policy for town centres by also introducing a presumption against out of town retail development and new tests for diversity, local economic impact and carbon emissions.

EDM 566 - Portable Antiques Scheme – urges the government to ensure that the Portable Antiques Scheme is at least able to maintain its current level of activity.

EDM 602 – Cluster Munitions – welcomes international progress towards cluster munitions disarmament but urges Government to press for a total ban to include cluster munitions with self destruct mechanisms.

EDM 619 – Special Education Needs (Information) Private Members Bill – recognises that there is currently insufficient information available to analyse outcomes for school pupils with special educational needs and welcomes the private members bill that aims to address this.

EDM 621 – Consensus for Constitutional Reform – believe there is a need for constitutional reform based on a more participative process involving citizens in decision making.

EDM 637 – Disability Poverty in the UK - notes that disabled people can experience poverty in a number of ways including financial poverty, poverty of aspiration and poverty of opportunity and calls on Government to make tackling disability poverty a priority.

EDM 676 – Support for Disabled People in Employment - welcomes measures contained in the Employment Retention Bill to ensure that people who experience ill-health or disability whilst in work are supported to retain their employment whenever possible.

EDM 690 – Derek Pasquill and the Official Secrets Act 1989 - believes that the law about official secrets should be based on preventing damage to the public interest rather than preventing embarrassment for the leading party and calls for an enquiry into the case of Derek Pasquill and for a review of the Official Secrets Act 1989.

EDM 691 – Paris agreement and the Vietnam war – notes that the effects of chemical warfare in Indochina are still not being adequately dealt with by the US.

EDM 714 – Income Shifting - notes with concern the proposals for a new tax on income shifting and urges the Government to reconsider its proposals ahead of the Budget.

EDM 736 – Climate Change Bill - urges the Government to support amendments to the Bill during its passage through Parliament to address the UNDP concerns, making it an unequivocally world-leading response to climate change.

EDM 771 – Energy Price Increases and Winter Fuel Allowance – Notes with concern the decision taken by some energy providers to raise prices above inflation and urges government to monitor their profits closely.

EDM 780 – Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp – condemns the camps continued existence and human rights abuses there and urges the government to do more to ensure its closure and observance of human rights by the US.

EDM 787 – Global Moratorium on the use of the Death Penalty – welcomes the UN’s role in promoting human rights and the abolition of the death penalty worldwide and calls on government to maintain pressure on those countries that still use this penalty.

EDM 788 – Child Executions – notes with concern reports that child executions still takes place and that this is contrary to the UN Conventions of the Rights of the Child and encourages government to continue pressing other states not to carry out child executions.

EDM 789 – Energy and Climate Change - recognises the global imperative of tackling climate change and is concerned therefore by current plans to develop over 10GW of new coal power stations in Britain.

EDM 816 – Supporting prisoners’ families campaign – notes that prisoners who receive visits from their family are significantly less likely to re-offend, three times more likely to have accommodation on release and twice as likely to gain employment on release. 

EDM 829 – Support for Iraqi footballer, Nashat Akram – regrets the decision to refuse a work permit for the purposes of joining Manchester City to Iraqi footballer Nashat Akram,   

EDM 847 – Land girls – recognises the importance of land girls during the war and welcomes moves to give them the recognition they deserve.