Petitions/Require disabled toilets to have a fold down shelf for stoma users
StatusClosed
Opened2 Oct 2025
Closes2 Apr 2026
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Parliamentary debateNot eligible
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There are often no facilities for stoma users in disabled toilets. Leaving us using the floor or the top of toilet seats for our appliances. This is not sanitary. I would like a legal requirement of a fold down shelf. This allows the shelf to be folded up so there is no impact on wheelchair users.

I have reached out to supermarkets, coffee shops and various other places and very few are willing to make these changes. I have now started a social media campaign and have found many other stoma users have the same difficulty, including in hospitals! With a high risk of infection when the stoma is exposed for an appliance to be changed. How is this acceptable.

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Sir Julian Smith
1Sir Julian Smith MP
Skipton and Ripon
19
Jon Trickett
2Jon Trickett MP
Normanton and Hemsworth
18
Mr Gregory Campbell
3Mr Gregory Campbell MP
East Londonderry
17
Mrs Kemi Badenoch
4Mrs Kemi Badenoch MP
North West Essex
15
Cat Eccles
5Cat Eccles MP
Stourbridge
14
Ms Nusrat Ghani
6Ms Nusrat Ghani MP
Sussex Weald
14
Juliet Campbell
7Juliet Campbell MP
Broxtowe
13
Mark Sewards
8Mark Sewards MP
Leeds South West and Morley
13
Anna Gelderd
9Anna Gelderd MP
South East Cornwall
12
Jonathan Reynolds
10Jonathan Reynolds MP
Stalybridge and Hyde
12
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