Duschenne Muscular Dystrophy is the most common, most progressive and deadliest type of Muscular Dystrophy. It affects one in 3500 boys worldwide and is by far the biggest genetic child-killer.

DMD causes severe muscle wasting so that by the time these boys are nine or ten years old they will be in wheelchairs, and by their late teens they will be preparing for death.

The Campaign is being run jointly by the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign, the Duschenne Family Support Group and the Cardiff-based Parent Project UK (PPUK). PPUK was founded by a Cardiff couple, Nick Catlin and Janet Hoskin, whose son year old son Saul was diagnosed with Duschenne Muscular Dystrophy when five months old.

Mr Brennan has taken up the campaign in Parliament, and has tabled a Commons motion urging the Government to increase the current budget for research into DMD. Along with the Labour MP for Norwich North, Dr Ian Gibson, Mr Brennan will be hosting a reception for the Campaign in the House of Commons on Tuesday night.

The reception will finish off a busy day for the DMD campaigners, as Mr Brennan has secured an adjournment debate on the issue in Westminster Hall at 1pm and will be taking a selection of the campaigners to No. 10 Downing Street at 3.30pm to present a petition to the Prime Minister.

Mr Brennan said:

‘I am immensely pleased to be involved in promoting this very worthwhile campaign. It is vital that extra funding is secured to finance extra research into Duschenne Muscular Dystrophy and any possible cure.

‘It will be a busy day in Westminster on Tuesday and I hope that the ongoing efforts of the families and friends of DMD sufferers are recognised and applauded. The various activities should help raise general awareness of the plight of boys with Duschenne Muscular Dystrophy and I hope that the Government will listen to and act upon the anxieties of the campaigners and release extra funding to finance research into this terrible illness.'