Conduct Of The Chief Secretary To The Treasury And War Pensions

EDM number 319 in 1996-97, proposed by Liz Lynne on 05/12/1996.

That this House believes that the decision not to outline the specific changes to war pensions at the time of the Budget is an insult to Parliament and to the freedoms which war veterans secured for this nation; and believes that if the Chief Secretary to the Treasury was responsible for covering up the full extent of the cuts he should resign; notes with grave concern that the proposed package of cuts in war pensions will stop 10,000 people a year whose hearing has deteriorated following military service receiving a higher disability pension and to stop the issue of reminders to people to return their claim or seek an increase in entitlement; and believes that such a package is clearly not a measure merely to 'simplify policy and procedures' as claimed in a Budget press release, but instead a cynical attempt to cut social security expenditure at the expense of war veterans and widows who have made immense sacrifices for this nation.

This motion has been signed by a total of 44 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Liz Lynne	05/12/1996	Rochdale		Proposed
Peter Thurnham	05/12/1996	Bolton North East		Signed
Alan Beith	05/12/1996	Berwick-upon-Tweed		Signed
Diana Maddock	05/12/1996	Christchurch		Signed
Robert Maclennan	05/12/1996	Caithness and Sutherland		Signed
Nigel Jones	05/12/1996	Cheltenham		Signed
Simon Hughes	05/12/1996	Southwark and Bermondsey		Signed
Tom Cox	06/12/1996	Tooting		Signed
Harry Barnes	06/12/1996	North East Derbyshire		Signed
Norman Godman	09/12/1996	Greenock and Port Glasgow		Signed
Lawrence Cunliffe	09/12/1996	Leigh		Signed
John Cummings	09/12/1996	Easington		Signed
Ray Michie	09/12/1996	Argyll & Bute		Signed
Jim Wallace	10/12/1996	Orkney & Shetland		Signed
Paul Tyler	10/12/1996	North Cornwall		Signed
Andrew Faulds	10/12/1996	Warley East		Signed
John Evans	10/12/1996	St Helens North		Signed
Alex Carlile	10/12/1996	Montgomery		Signed
Lynne Jones	10/12/1996	Birmingham, Selly Oak		Signed
Dennis Turner	11/12/1996	Wolverhampton South East		Signed
Jack Thompson	11/12/1996	Wansbeck		Signed
Maria Fyfe	11/12/1996	Glasgow, Maryhill		Signed
Roseanna Cunningham	11/12/1996	Perth and Kinross		Signed
Jeremy Corbyn	11/12/1996	Islington North		Signed
Michael Connarty	11/12/1996	Falkirk East		Signed
Richard Burden	11/12/1996	Birmingham, Northfield		Signed
Edward O'Hara	11/12/1996	Knowsley South		Signed
Bill Michie	11/12/1996	Sheffield, Heeley		Signed
Elfyn Llwyd	11/12/1996	Meirionnydd Nant Conwy		Signed
Russell Johnston	11/12/1996	Inverness, Nairn and Lochaber		Signed
Ken Livingstone	12/12/1996	Brent East		Signed
John Heppell	12/12/1996	Nottingham East		Signed
Colin Pickthall	12/12/1996	West Lancashire		Signed
Mike Watson	16/12/1996	Glasgow Central		Signed
Mike Hall	17/12/1996	Warrington South		Signed
James Callaghan	17/12/1996	Heywood & Middleton		Signed
Keith Bradley	17/12/1996	Manchester, Withington		Signed
Nick Harvey	17/12/1996	North Devon		Signed
John Gunnell	15/01/1997	Leeds South and Morley		Signed
Jim Cunningham	16/01/1997	Coventry South East		Signed
Andrew MacKinlay	20/01/1997	Thurrock		Signed
Michael Clapham	23/01/1997	Barnsley West & Penistone		Signed
Robert Wareing	27/01/1997	Liverpool, West Derby		Signed
Tommy Graham	05/02/1997	Renfrew West and Inverclyde		Signed

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