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Chronically Sick And Disabled Persons (Amendment) Bill (Lords)

EDM number 236 in 1997-98, proposed by Paul Burstow on 10/07/1997.

That this House believes that the decision of the Law Lords on 20th March to allow local authorities to have regard for their resources when assessing a person's need under the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 will have a devastating effect on the quality of life of thousands of disabled people; notes that the Law Lords Gloucestershire judgement was only on a three to two majority; believes that urgent action is required to return the law to the position everyone had understood it to be for the last 27 years; notes with great disappointment that on 9th July 1997 the Government failed to support the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons (Amendment) Bill (Lords) proposed by Lord Ashley of Stoke; and calls on the Government to bring forward legislation as a matter of urgency to give confidence to disabled people that the Government are committed to the principle that community care should be assessed on need and need alone and to also make an urgent statement to clarify their intentions.

This motion has been signed by a total of 53 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Paul Burstow10/07/1997Sutton & CheamLiberal DemocratProposed
Adrian Sanders10/07/1997TorbayLiberal DemocratSigned
Jenny Tonge10/07/1997Richmond ParkLiberal DemocratSigned
Jackie Ballard10/07/1997TauntonLiberal DemocratSigned
Bob Russell14/07/1997ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Lynne Jones14/07/1997Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe14/07/1997LeighLabourSigned
Ken Livingstone15/07/1997Brent EastLabourSigned
Ray Michie15/07/1997Argyll & ButeLiberal DemocratSigned
Mike Hancock15/07/1997Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Harry Barnes15/07/1997North East DerbyshireLabourSigned
Martin Smyth16/07/1997Belfast SouthUUPSigned
John McAllion16/07/1997Dundee EastLabourSigned
John Austin16/07/1997Erith & ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Nigel Jones17/07/1997CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Tommy Graham17/07/1997West RenfrewshireLabourSigned
Donald Gorrie17/07/1997Edinburgh WestLiberal DemocratSigned
John Cummings17/07/1997EasingtonLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn17/07/1997Islington NorthLabourSigned
Bill Etherington18/07/1997Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
David Chidgey22/07/1997EastleighLiberal DemocratSigned
Phil Willis23/07/1997Harrogate & KnaresboroughLiberal DemocratSigned
John McDonnell24/07/1997Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
Tom Brake24/07/1997Carshalton & WallingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Candy Atherton28/07/1997Falmouth & CamborneLabourSigned
Llew Smith28/07/1997Blaenau GwentLabourSigned
Tom Levitt28/07/1997High PeakLabourSigned
Brian Sedgemore29/07/1997Hackney South & ShoreditchLabourSigned
Mark Oaten29/07/1997WinchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Laura Moffatt30/07/1997CrawleyLabourSigned
Nick Harvey31/07/1997North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
Matthew Taylor27/10/1997Truro & St AustellLiberal DemocratSigned
Mike Wood27/10/1997Batley & SpenLabourSigned
Jim Wallace27/10/1997Orkney & ShetlandLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Tyler27/10/1997North CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Beith27/10/1997Berwick-upon-TweedLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew George27/10/1997St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Malcolm Bruce27/10/1997GordonLiberal DemocratSigned
Colin Breed27/10/1997South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Lembit 27/10/1997MontgomeryshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Richard Livsey27/10/1997Brecon & RadnorshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Charles Kennedy27/10/1997Ross, Skye & Inverness WestLiberal DemocratSigned
David Rendel27/10/1997NewburyLiberal DemocratSigned
Vincent Cable28/10/1997TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Brian Cotter29/10/1997Weston-Super-MareLiberal DemocratSigned
Derek Wyatt03/11/1997Sittingbourne & SheppeyLabourSigned
Ann Keen04/11/1997Brentford & IsleworthLabourSigned
Martin Caton07/11/1997GowerLabourSigned
Tony McWalter24/11/1997Hemel HempsteadLabour Co-operativeSigned
Robert Wareing27/11/1997Liverpool, West DerbyLabourSigned
Evan Harris02/12/1997Oxford West & AbingdonLiberal DemocratSigned
Archy Kirkwood30/04/1998Roxburgh & BerwickshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Martin Bell21/05/1998TattonIndependentSigned

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