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MP Valerie Vaz's 10 Minute Rule Bill on Epilepsy, which received its first hearing on the 24th November last year, is scheduled to receive its second reading on the 27th April, 2012. We need your help to ensure it is given time in Parliament to be heard.

Here is how you can help:

1. Write to the Prime Minister, David Cameron, asking him to find time for the Bill. Click here for a template letter to use for this purpose. Including your experiences of epilepsy and the health services will make this letter a more powerful message.

2. Contact your local MP. Tell them that a second reading of the Ten Minute Rule Bill on Epilepsy and Related Conditions (Education and Health Services) (Bill 112) has been scheduled for 20th January 2012 and ask them to write to the Prime Minister to ask him to find time for this important bill. You can find out who your MP is, and contact them, through www.writetothem.com

The more MPs we can get to support the bill, the more chance we have of the bill being successful.

ARTICLE HISTORY:

Click here to read the JEC Ten Minute Bill Press Release
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Minister acknowledges epilepsy health service failings

MP Valerie Vaz's 10 Minute Rule Bill on Epilepsy received its first hearing on 24th November and was supported by MPs David Amess, Jeremy Corbyn, Mary Glindon, Sam Gyimah, Paul Maynard, Stephen McCabe, Grahame Morris, Pamela Nash, Bob Russell, Laura Sandys and Owen Smith.

Click here to watch Valerie Vaz introduce the Rule Bill

The second reading of the bill will take place on the 20th January 2012 and put we need your help to make sure it is given time in Parliament to be heard. Here is how you can help:

Contact your local MP. Tell them that a second reading of the Ten Minute Rule Bill on Epilepsy and Related Conditions (Education and Health Services) (Bill 112) has been scheduled for 20th January 2012. You can find out who your MP is, and contact them, through www.writetothem.com

• Ask them to write to the Prime Minister to ask him to find time for this important bill.

• Contact the Prime Minister directly at 10 Downing Street, London SW1A 2AA. Again, ask him to find time for the bill and tell him your experiences of epilepsy, the health service and the education system.

• The more MPs we can get to support the bill, the more chance we have of the bill being successful.

Click here to download an accompanying briefing paper, which can be sent to your MP also
205kb PDF File. Don't have Adobe PDF Reader? Click here to download

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