Reductions In Housing Benefit

EDM number 298 in 1996-97, proposed by Alan Howarth on 04/12/1996.

That this House is gravely concerned by proposals in the Budget restricting housing benefit for single people under 60 years renting privately to the cost of shared accommodation for the area from October 1997; notes that this would, if implemented, deny to many middle aged people the opportunity of occupying self-contained accommodation; further notes the poor conditions and safety hazards which are widely encountered in shared accommodation in which single people would increasingly be expected to live; deplores the fact that this involves a clear breach of the assurances given to private tenants by Ministers that housing benefit would protect them from the effects of higher rents following deregulation of private lettings fears that the proposals could lead to the build up of rent arrears resulting in eventual homelessness; and calls on the Government to reconsider these damaging and ill thought-out proposals.

This motion has been signed by a total of 67 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Alan Howarth	04/12/1996	Stratford-on-Avon		Proposed
Bill Etherington	05/12/1996	Sunderland North		Signed
John Evans	05/12/1996	St Helens North		Signed
Andrew Faulds	05/12/1996	Warley East		Signed
Maria Fyfe	05/12/1996	Glasgow, Maryhill		Signed
Norman Godman	05/12/1996	Greenock and Port Glasgow		Signed
Tony Banks	05/12/1996	Newham North West		Signed
Hugh Bayley	05/12/1996	York, City of		Signed
Gerry Steinberg	05/12/1996	Durham, City of		Signed
Paddy Tipping	05/12/1996	Sherwood		Signed
Dennis Turner	05/12/1996	Wolverhampton South East		Signed
Audrey Wise	05/12/1996	Preston		Signed
Kenneth Eastham	05/12/1996	Manchester, Blackley		Signed
Roseanna Cunningham	05/12/1996	Perth and Kinross		Signed
Peter Hardy	05/12/1996	Wentworth		Signed
Nick Harvey	05/12/1996	North Devon		Signed
Keith Hill	05/12/1996	Streatham		Signed
Lynne Jones	05/12/1996	Birmingham, Selly Oak		Signed
Bill Michie	05/12/1996	Sheffield, Heeley		Signed
Rhodri Morgan	05/12/1996	Cardiff West		Signed
Keith Bradley	05/12/1996	Manchester, Withington		Signed
Michael Clapham	05/12/1996	Barnsley West & Penistone		Signed
Tom Cox	05/12/1996	Tooting		Signed
John Cummings	05/12/1996	Easington		Signed
Lawrence Cunliffe	05/12/1996	Leigh		Signed
Harry Barnes	06/12/1996	North East Derbyshire		Signed
Glenda Jackson	06/12/1996	Hampstead & Highgate		Signed
Donald Anderson	09/12/1996	Swansea East		Signed
Stephen Timms	10/12/1996	Newham North East		Signed
Robert Litherland	10/12/1996	Manchester Central		Signed
Nigel Jones	10/12/1996	Cheltenham		Signed
Barry Jones	10/12/1996	Alyn & Deeside		Signed
Eric Illsley	10/12/1996	Barnsley Central		Signed
Margaret Hodge	10/12/1996	Barking		Signed
Jack Thompson	11/12/1996	Wansbeck		Signed
Angela Eagle	11/12/1996	Wallasey		Signed
Terry Davis	11/12/1996	Birmingham, Hodge Hill		Signed
Jim Cunningham	11/12/1996	Coventry South East		Signed
Michael Connarty	11/12/1996	Falkirk East		Signed
Eric Clarke	11/12/1996	Midlothian		Signed
Edward O'Hara	11/12/1996	Knowsley South		Signed
Alan Meale	11/12/1996	Mansfield		Signed
Ken Livingstone	12/12/1996	Brent East		Signed
Martyn Jones	12/12/1996	Clwyd South West		Signed
John Heppell	12/12/1996	Nottingham East		Signed
Llew Smith	12/12/1996	Blaenau Gwent		Signed
Eddie McGrady	13/12/1996	South Down		Signed
Neil Gerrard	16/12/1996	Walthamstow		Signed
Mike Hall	17/12/1996	Warrington South		Signed
James Callaghan	17/12/1996	Heywood & Middleton		Signed
Kate Hoey	13/01/1997	Vauxhall		Signed
Peter Kilfoyle	13/01/1997	Liverpool, Walton		Signed
John Gunnell	15/01/1997	Leeds South and Morley		Signed
Peter Pike	16/01/1997	Burnley		Signed
Gerry Bermingham	16/01/1997	St Helens South		Signed
Terry Rooney	21/01/1997	Bradford North		Signed
Jean Corston	22/01/1997	Bristol East		Signed
Jeff Ennis	23/01/1997	Barnsley East		Signed
Diana Maddock	23/01/1997	Christchurch		Signed
Robert Wareing	27/01/1997	Liverpool, West Derby		Signed
Piara S Khabra	30/01/1997	Ealing, Southall		Signed
Gerry Sutcliffe	30/01/1997	Bradford South		Signed
Brian Sedgemore	04/02/1997	Hackney South & Shoreditch		Signed
Russell Johnston	04/02/1997	Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber		Signed
Tommy Graham	05/02/1997	Renfrew West and Inverclyde		Signed
Anne Campbell	11/02/1997	Cambridge		Signed
Jon Trickett	12/02/1997	Hemsworth		Signed

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