World Asthma Day and Asthma Awareness Week

The motion

That the Parliament expresses it support for World Asthma Day, which was on 7 May 2013, and Asthma Awareness Week, which runs from 5 to 12 May; understands that over 1,140 people die in the UK from asthma each year, more than in Austria, Finland, Sweden, Poland and Portugal combined, and that the vast majority of these deaths are preventable; believes that there were 80 deaths in Scotland in 2011 where the underlying cause was asthma and that, although this was a small increase compared with 2010, there has been a general downward trend in the number of such deaths since 2003; welcomes the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network report, Asthma Priorities: Influencing the Agenda, but understands that there are an estimated 368,000 people in Scotland whose lives are affected by asthma; recognises the continuing challenge in raising awareness and in reducing readmissions to hospital, and understands that, according to Asthma UK, although 90% of people with the condition are at risk of attack, 52%, more than two million people, do not believe that they are.

No recorded vote on this motion. Most motions are never debated, and many that are debated are agreed without a division. Vote records are published from 2011.

SNP 14 Lab 13 Con 3 LD 2 Ind 1

Party shown is each supporter’s party when the motion was published.

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