How can your MP help?

In response to your concern, your MP may write to the relevant department or official, write to the Minister involved, or make an appointment to see the Minister personally.

Your MP may decide to raise the issue in the House of Commons in front of the press and public. These are some examples of what they can do:

• If they are not a member, ask them to join the Endometriosis All Party Parliamentary Group.  The Group’s secretary is John McDonnell MP, Hayes and Harlington. Current list of APPG members
  
  
• Ask Oral Questions. Ministers answer questions on a rota basis and there is a limit to the number that can be asked.
  
  
• Tabling a written question to the appropriate Secretary of State. The replies are written by civil servants but they have to be approved by Ministers.The answers to these questions are then published in Hansard.
  
  
• Adjournment Debates. Your MP may also try to raise the issue in the half-hour Adjournment Debates, usually set at the end of the day, although they must be chosen from a ballot or by the Speaker to do this.
  
  
• Ask them to contact Endometriosis UK if they would like to get further involved or perhaps table a question in the House of Commons

Publicity from these methods may be helpful in persuading a Minister to change his or her mind. If your MP is a Minister or Parliamentary Private Secretary or Opposition spokespeople they may be restricted in doing some of the above.