Get Involved - Write to your MP

What are we calling for and why? Health Bill 2009 Health Bill 2009 Briefs Quick Campaign Guide Write to your MP Campaign Letters

Please write to your MP to say you support the legislation and to ask them to support the following EDMs:

• Point of Sale Display of Tobacco Products EDM 189
• Plain Packaging of Tobacco Products EDM 554
• Sale of Tobacco from Vending Machines EDM 768

For ideas about what to put in your letter please see our Campaign Letters page.

You can email your MP here. If you don't know who your MP is please click here.

You can also email your MP via this website: www.writetothem.com

Or you can write to your MP at the House of Commons
House of Commons
London SW1A 1AA

You could also send a copy of your letter to other members of parliament with an interest in this issue.

To contact the Prime Minister:
The Rt. Hon. Gordon Brown MP
Prime Minister
10 Downing Street
London SW1A 2AA
Fax: 020 7925 0918
There is currently no facility to email the Prime Minister

To contact the Secretary of State for Health:
The Rt Hon Andy Burnham MP
Department of Health
Richmond House, 79 Whitehall
London SW1A 2NS
Fax: 020 7210 5410
Email: mb-sos@dh.gsi.gov.uk / burnhama@parliament.uk
Via this website: http://www.upmystreet.com/commons/email/l/279.html

To contact the Minister of State for Public Health:
The Rt. Hon. Gillian Merrion MP
Department of Health
Richmond House, 79 Whitehall
London SW1A 2NS.
Fax: 020 7210 5534
Email: MSPHtemp@dh.gsi.gov.uk / dhmail@dh.gsi.gov.uk
Via this website: http://www.upmystreet.com/commons/email/l/115.html

To contact the Leader of the Conservative Party:
The Rt. Hon. David Cameron MP
House of Commons
London SW1A 0AA
Email: camerond@parliament.uk
Via this website: http://www.upmystreet.com/commons/email/l/371.html
Website: http://www.davidcameronmp.com/

To contact the Shadow Secretary of State for Health:
The Rt. Hon. Andrew Lansley CBE MP
House of Commons
London SW1A 0AA
Email: lansleya@parliament.uk
Via this website: http://www.upmystreet.com/commons/email/l/147.html
Via his website: http://www.andrewlansley.co.uk/index.php?pageid=12

How to contact a member of the House of Lords

Members of the House of Lords are not elected and do not have constituency offices or parliamentary email. However they can be contacted via the House of Lords:

House of Lords
London SW1A 0PW
Fax: 020 7219 5979
Via this website: http://www.writetothem.com/lords

How to find a Peer to write to?

This website allows you to search Peers by interest and association with a geographical area: http://www.writetothem.com/lords

To find a Peer with an interest in health issues look at the Register of All Party Groups.

For example there are All Party Parliamentary Groups on

• Smoking and Health
• Asthma
• Cancer
• Health
• Heart Disease

For details about how to address a Peer: http://www.parliament.uk/about/how/members/lords_contact/address.cfm

 

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