Abolition Of Child Support Act 1991
EDM number 99 in 1993-94, proposed by Mildred Gordon on 25/11/1993.
That this House regards the Child Support Act 1991 as a failure, believes that its effect upon single mothers on income support and on second families is injurious, that many women on income support have been left worse off through loss of passported benefits and that single mothers have been intimidated to authorise the Agency to pursue fathers upon pain of losing benefit; and further believes that the imposition of new high bills on fathers of second families is grossly unfair and a serious poverty trap, that the overwhelming amount of money paid over to the Treasury instead of to families is grossly immoral and is in fact a secret tax; and therefore calls for the abolition of the Child Support Act and Agency and for a simpler replacement system to be instituted which will ensure that court maintenance orders are enforced and actually benefit women and their children.
This motion has been signed by a total of 77 MPs, 2 of these signatures have been withdrawn.
| MP | Date | Constituency | Party | Type |
|---|
| Mildred Gordon | 25/11/1993 | Bow and Poplar | | Proposed |
| Harry Cohen | 25/11/1993 | Leyton | | Signed |
| Jeremy Corbyn | 25/11/1993 | Islington North | | Signed |
| Jean Corston | 25/11/1993 | Bristol East | | Signed |
| Bill Etherington | 25/11/1993 | Sunderland North | | Signed |
| Norman Godman | 25/11/1993 | Greenock and Port Glasgow | | Signed |
| Tommy Graham | 25/11/1993 | Renfrew West and Inverclyde | | Signed |
| Irene Adams | 25/11/1993 | Paisley North | | Signed |
| Peter Hain | 25/11/1993 | Neath | | Signed |
| Tony Banks | 25/11/1993 | Newham North West | | Signed |
| Harry Barnes | 25/11/1993 | North East Derbyshire | | Signed |
| John Battle | 25/11/1993 | Leeds West | | Signed |
| Hugh Bayley | 25/11/1993 | York, City of | | Signed |
| Audrey Wise | 25/11/1993 | Preston | | Signed |
| Malcolm Chisholm | 25/11/1993 | Edinburgh Leith | | Signed |
| Chris Mullin | 25/11/1993 | Sunderland South | | Signed |
| Elliot Morley | 25/11/1993 | Glanford and Scunthorpe | | Signed |
| David Hanson | 25/11/1993 | Delyn | | Signed |
| Martin Redmond | 25/11/1993 | Don Valley | | Signed |
| Alan Simpson | 25/11/1993 | Nottingham South | | Signed |
| Dennis Skinner | 25/11/1993 | Bolsover | | Signed |
| Helen Jackson | 25/11/1993 | Sheffield, Hillsborough | | Signed |
| Lynne Jones | 25/11/1993 | Birmingham, Selly Oak | | Signed |
| Martyn Jones | 25/11/1993 | Clwyd South West | | Signed |
| Ken Livingstone | 25/11/1993 | Brent East | | Signed |
| Rhodri Morgan | 25/11/1993 | Cardiff West | | Signed |
| Alun Michael | 25/11/1993 | Cardiff South & Penarth | | Signed |
| Alan Meale | 25/11/1993 | Mansfield | | Signed |
| Alice Mahon | 25/11/1993 | Halifax | | Signed |
| Eddie Loyden | 25/11/1993 | Liverpool, Garston | | Signed |
| John Evans | 26/11/1993 | St Helens North | | Signed |
| Donald Anderson | 29/11/1993 | Swansea East | | Signed |
| Terry Davis | 29/11/1993 | Birmingham, Hodge Hill | | Signed |
| Lawrence Cunliffe | 29/11/1993 | Leigh | | Signed |
| John Cummings | 29/11/1993 | Easington | | Signed |
| Alex Carlile | 29/11/1993 | Montgomery | | Signed |
| Bill Michie | 29/11/1993 | Sheffield, Heeley | | Signed |
| Liz Lynne | 29/11/1993 | Rochdale | | Signed |
| Peter Hardy | 29/11/1993 | Wentworth | | Signed |
| Jack Thompson | 30/11/1993 | Wansbeck | | Signed |
| Mike Hall | 30/11/1993 | Warrington South | | Signed |
| Win Griffiths | 30/11/1993 | Bridgend | | Signed |
| Jim Dowd | 30/11/1993 | Lewisham West | | Signed |
| Ian Davidson | 30/11/1993 | Glasgow, Govan | | Signed |
| Peter Kilfoyle | 30/11/1993 | Liverpool, Walton | | Signed |
| Barry Jones | 30/11/1993 | Alyn & Deeside | | Signed |
| John Heppell | 30/11/1993 | Nottingham East | | Signed |
| Colin Pickthall | 30/11/1993 | West Lancashire | | Signed |
| Janet Anderson | 01/12/1993 | Rossendale & Darwen | | Signed |
| Edward O'Hara | 01/12/1993 | Knowsley South | | Signed |
| Eric Illsley | 01/12/1993 | Barnsley Central | | Signed |
| Kim Howells | 01/12/1993 | Pontypridd | | Signed |
| Nigel Jones | 02/12/1993 | Cheltenham | | Signed |
| David Clelland | 02/12/1993 | Tyne Bridge | | Signed |
| Dennis Turner | 02/12/1993 | Wolverhampton South East | | Signed |
| Denzil Davies | 06/12/1993 | Llanelli | | Signed |
| Eddie McGrady | 06/12/1993 | South Down | | Signed |
| Greville Janner | 06/12/1993 | Leicester West | | Signed |
| Ian McCartney | 08/12/1993 | Makerfield | | Signed |
| Roland Boyes | 08/12/1993 | Houghton and Washington | | Signed |
| John Gunnell | 08/12/1993 | Leeds South and Morley | | Signed |
| Alan Wynne Williams | 09/02/1994 | Carmarthen | | Signed |
| Alex Salmond | 11/02/1994 | Banff & Buchan | | Signed |
| Raymond Powell | 14/02/1994 | Ogmore | | Signed |
| Nigel Spearing | 18/04/1994 | Newham South | | Signed |
| Elfyn Llwyd | 19/04/1994 | Meirionnydd Nant Conwy | | Signed |
| Angela Eagle | 26/04/1994 | Wallasey | | Signed |
| Russell Johnston | 28/04/1994 | Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber | | Signed |
| Gordon Oakes | 23/05/1994 | Halton | | Signed |
| Joe Benton | 15/06/1994 | Bootle | | Signed |
| Norman Hogg | 07/07/1994 | Cumbernauld & Kilsyth | | Signed |
| David Marshall | 13/07/1994 | Glasgow, Shettleston | | Signed |
| Jimmy Hood | 15/07/1994 | Clydesdale | | Signed |
| Tony Worthington | 15/07/1994 | Clydebank & Milngavie | | Signed |
| Tony Benn | 18/07/1994 | Chesterfield | | Signed |
| Bob Cryer | Unknown | | | Withdrawn |
| Jim Cunningham | Unknown | | | Withdrawn |
Download raw data as
csv or
xml.
