Resettlement Grants For Former Members

EDM number 299 in 1990-91, proposed by Alfred Morris on 16/01/1991.

That, in the opinion of this House, paragraph (2) of the third Resolution of this House of 19th July 1983, which provides that resettlement grants for former Members should not be payable to a person who has attained the age of 65 years before the dissolution of the present or any future Parliament should no longer have effect, and that the following new provision should be made:(a)That the resettlement grant should not be payable, on the dissolution of the present or any future Parliament, to any person who had attained the age of 65 years at the dissolution of the preceeding Parliament;but That(b)regardless of age, a person who has completed a total of 20 years' service as a Member of this House becomes eligible for the grant when it becomes payable under the first paragraph of the third Resolution of 19th July 1983, irrespective of whether that service was continuous, subject to paragraph (3) of the said Resolution.

This motion has been signed by a total of 298 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.