{"id":319,"date":"2016-04-19T09:34:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T08:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/?p=319"},"modified":"2016-04-28T09:46:58","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T08:46:58","slug":"house-of-commons-debate-on-funding-for-research-for-brain-tumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/?p=319","title":{"rendered":"House of Commons Debate on Funding for Research for Brain Tumours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hansard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-320\" src=\"http:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hansard-1024x483.jpg\" alt=\"hansard\" width=\"590\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"http:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hansard-1024x483.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hansard-300x141.jpg 300w, http:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hansard-768x362.jpg 768w, http:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/hansard.jpg 1158w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Westminster Hall on 18th April 2016, the House of Commons debated the motion\u00a0<em>That this House has considered e-petition 105560 relating to funding for research into brain tumours.\u00a0<\/em>The e-petition, <a href=\"https:\/\/petition.parliament.uk\/petitions\/105560\">which you can see here along with a video of the debate<\/a>, called on government to\u00a0<em>Fund more research into brain tumours, the biggest cancer killer of under-40s\u00a0<\/em>and was the first e-petition ever to sustain enough support in the form of signatures to trigger a Parliamentary debate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hansard.parliament.uk\/Commons\/2016-04-18\/debates\/16041811000001\/BrainTumours\">You can read the exchanges from the debate in the Parliamentary record, Hansard, here<\/a>. It is clear that the debate was the centre of intense interest from members of Parliament, chair Sir Edward Leigh opening the proceedings by saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"hs_Para\">There are still people trying to get into this most important debate, and I am happy to allow everybody to come in and for people to stand at the back if they need to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hs_Para\">Before I call Helen Jones to move the motion, I should say that 30 colleagues have put their names in to speak..<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"hs_Para\">You can see full documentation for the petition and the debate here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"hs_Para\">Congratulations to everyone in the movement to win funding and research into Brain Tumours for coming together so magnificently, creating an all-time Parliamentary first, and bringing the unfolding tragedy of brain tumours to the very heart of the British government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Westminster Hall on 18th April 2016, the House of Commons debated the motion\u00a0That this House has considered e-petition 105560 relating to funding for research into brain tumours.\u00a0The e-petition, which you can see here along with a video of the debate, called on government to\u00a0Fund more research into brain tumours, the biggest cancer killer of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321,"href":"http:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/head1st.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}