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State Retirement Pensions To People Resident Abroad

EDM number 327 in 1997-98, proposed by Michael Colvin on 30/07/1997.

That this House notes that, by the dissolution of the last Parliament, 247 honourable Members had signed Early Day Motion number 680, which read: That this House welcomes the Third Report of the Social Security Select Committee into the Uprating of State Retirement Pensions payable to People Resident Abroad (HC 143 of Session 1996-97; and strongly supports its concluding recommendation: That there should be a free vote at prime time to allow honourable Members to express their opinion on the principle of whether the Government should pay upratings to some or all of those pensioners living in countries where upratings are not paid at present.

This motion has been signed by a total of 143 MPs, 7 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Michael Colvin30/07/1997RomseyConservativeProposed
Colin Pickthall30/07/1997West LancashireLabourSigned
Peter Pike30/07/1997BurnleyLabourSigned
David Rendel30/07/1997NewburyLiberal DemocratSigned
Allan Rogers30/07/1997RhonddaLabourSigned
Ernie Ross30/07/1997Dundee WestLabourSigned
William Ross30/07/1997East LondonderryUUPSigned
Alex Salmond30/07/1997Banff & BuchanScottish National PartySigned
Barry Sheerman30/07/1997HuddersfieldLabour Co-operativeSigned
Richard Shepherd30/07/1997Aldridge-BrownhillsConservativeSigned
Dennis Skinner30/07/1997BolsoverLabourSigned
Peter Snape30/07/1997West Bromwich EastLabourSigned
Nick Harvey30/07/1997North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
John Heppell30/07/1997Nottingham EastLabourSigned
David Hinchliffe30/07/1997WakefieldLabourSigned
Jimmy Hood30/07/1997ClydesdaleLabourSigned
Simon Hughes30/07/1997North Southwark & BermondseyLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew Hunter30/07/1997BasingstokeConservativeSigned
Eric Illsley30/07/1997Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Helen Jackson30/07/1997Sheffield, HillsboroughLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins30/07/1997TamworthLabourSigned
Barry Jones30/07/1997Alyn & DeesideLabourSigned
Ieuan Wyn Jones30/07/1997Ynys MPlaid CymruSigned
Lynne Jones30/07/1997Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Martyn Jones30/07/1997Clwyd SouthLabourSigned
Nigel Jones30/07/1997CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Keen30/07/1997Feltham & HestonLabour Co-operativeSigned
Charles Kennedy30/07/1997Ross, Skye & Inverness WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Piara S Khabra30/07/1997Ealing, SouthallLabourSigned
Archy Kirkwood30/07/1997Roxburgh & BerwickshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Edward Leigh30/07/1997GainsboroughConservativeSigned
Terry Lewis30/07/1997WorsleyLabourSigned
Ken Livingstone30/07/1997Brent EastLabourSigned
Elfyn Llwyd30/07/1997Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Andrew MacKinlay30/07/1997ThurrockLabourSigned
Denis MacShane30/07/1997RotherhamLabourSigned
Ken Maginnis30/07/1997Fermanagh & South TyroneUUPSigned
Michael Mates30/07/1997East HampshireConservativeSigned
John McAllion30/07/1997Dundee EastLabourSigned
Kevin McNamara30/07/1997Kingston upon Hull NorthLabourSigned
John McWilliam30/07/1997BlaydonLabourSigned
Bill Michie30/07/1997Sheffield, HeeleyLabourSigned
Ray Michie30/07/1997Argyll & ButeLiberal DemocratSigned
Austin Mitchell30/07/1997Great GrimsbyLabourSigned
Lewis Moonie30/07/1997KirkcaldyLabour Co-operativeSigned
Chris Mullin30/07/1997Sunderland SouthLabourSigned
Bill O'Brien30/07/1997NormantonLabourSigned
Edward O'Hara30/07/1997Knowsley SouthLabourSigned
Bill Olner30/07/1997NuneatonLabourSigned
Martin O'Neill30/07/1997OchilLabourSigned
Ian Paisley30/07/1997North AntrimDUPSigned
Richard Burden30/07/1997Birmingham, NorthfieldLabourSigned
Menzies Campbell30/07/1997Fife North EastLiberal DemocratSigned
Ronnie Campbell30/07/1997Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Dale Campbell-Savours30/07/1997WorkingtonLabourSigned
Jamie Cann30/07/1997IpswichLabourSigned
David Chidgey30/07/1997EastleighLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Clapham30/07/1997Barnsley West & PenistoneLabourSigned
Eric Clarke30/07/1997MidlothianLabourSigned
Harry Cohen30/07/1997Leyton & WansteadLabourSigned
Michael Connarty30/07/1997Falkirk EastLabourSigned
Frank Cook30/07/1997Stockton NorthLabourSigned
Robin Corbett30/07/1997Birmingham, ErdingtonLabourSigned
Jean Corston30/07/1997Bristol EastLabourSigned
Jim Cousins30/07/1997Newcastle upon Tyne CentralLabourSigned
Tom Cox30/07/1997TootingLabourSigned
John Cummings30/07/1997EasingtonLabourSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe30/07/1997LeighLabourSigned
Jim Cunningham30/07/1997Coventry SouthLabourSigned
Quentin Davies30/07/1997Grantham & StamfordConservativeSigned
Stephen Day30/07/1997CheadleConservativeSigned
Brian H Donohoe30/07/1997Cunninghame SouthLabourSigned
Gwyneth Dunwoody30/07/1997Crewe & NantwichLabourSigned
Margaret Ewing30/07/1997MorayScottish National PartySigned
Clifford Forsythe30/07/1997South AntrimUUPSigned
Don Foster30/07/1997BathLiberal DemocratSigned
Maria Fyfe30/07/1997Glasgow, MaryhillLabourSigned
George Galloway30/07/1997Glasgow, KelvinLabourSigned
Mike Gapes30/07/1997Ilford SouthLabour Co-operativeSigned
Neil Gerrard30/07/1997WalthamstowLabourSigned
Norman Godman30/07/1997Greenock & InverclydeLabourSigned
Roger Godsiff30/07/1997Birmingham, Sparkbrook & Small HeathLabourSigned
Teresa Gorman30/07/1997BillericayConservativeSigned
Tommy Graham30/07/1997West RenfrewshireLabourSigned
Diane Abbott30/07/1997Hackney North & Stoke NewingtonLabourSigned
Nick Ainger30/07/1997Carmarthen West & South PembrokeshireLabourSigned
John Gunnell30/07/1997Morley & RothwellLabourSigned
Donald Anderson30/07/1997Swansea EastLabourSigned
David Atkinson30/07/1997Bournemouth EastConservativeSigned
John Austin30/07/1997Erith & ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Harry Barnes30/07/1997North East DerbyshireLabourSigned
Roy Beggs30/07/1997East AntrimUUPSigned
Alan Beith30/07/1997Berwick-upon-TweedLiberal DemocratSigned
Tony Benn30/07/1997ChesterfieldLabourSigned
Joe Benton30/07/1997BootleLabourSigned
Gerry Bermingham30/07/1997St Helens SouthLabourSigned
Roger Berry30/07/1997KingswoodLabourSigned
Richard Body30/07/1997Boston & SkegnessConservativeSigned
Gerry Steinberg30/07/1997Durham, City ofLabourSigned
George Stevenson30/07/1997Stoke-on-Trent SouthLabourSigned
Matthew Taylor30/07/1997Truro & St AustellLiberal DemocratSigned
Teddy Taylor30/07/1997Rochford & Southend EastConservativeSigned
Peter Temple-Morris30/07/1997LeominsterConservativeSigned
Paddy Tipping30/07/1997SherwoodLabourSigned
David Trimble30/07/1997Upper BannUUPSigned
Paul Tyler30/07/1997North CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Keith Vaz30/07/1997Leicester EastLabourSigned
Cecil Walker30/07/1997Belfast NorthUUPSigned
Jim Wallace30/07/1997Orkney & ShetlandLiberal DemocratSigned
Joan Walley30/07/1997Stoke-on-Trent NorthLabourSigned
Robert Wareing30/07/1997Liverpool, West DerbyLabourSigned
Andrew Welsh30/07/1997AngusScottish National PartySigned
Dafydd Wigley30/07/1997CaernarfonPlaid CymruSigned
John Wilkinson30/07/1997Ruislip - NorthwoodConservativeSigned
Alan Williams30/07/1997Swansea WestLabourSigned
Alan Williams30/07/1997Carmarthen East & DinefwrLabourSigned
Ann Winterton30/07/1997CongletonConservativeSigned
Nicholas Winterton30/07/1997MacclesfieldConservativeSigned
Audrey Wise30/07/1997PrestonLabourSigned
Jimmy Wray30/07/1997Glasgow, BailliestonLabourSigned
Tom Brake31/07/1997Carshalton & WallingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
David Taylor31/07/1997North West LeicestershireLabour Co-operativeSigned
Chris Ruane27/10/1997Vale of ClwydLabourSigned
Lembit 27/10/1997MontgomeryshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Nick Palmer28/10/1997BroxtoweLabourSigned
Martin Smyth28/10/1997Belfast SouthUUPSigned
Alice Mahon28/10/1997HalifaxLabourSigned
Brian White28/10/1997North East Milton KeynesLabourSigned
Donald Gorrie29/10/1997Edinburgh WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Vincent Cable30/10/1997TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Jenny Tonge30/10/1997Richmond ParkLiberal DemocratSigned
Clive Soley03/11/1997Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's BushLabourSigned
John McDonnell04/11/1997Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
Eddie McGrady05/11/1997South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Bill Etherington17/11/1997Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Terry Davis11/03/1998Birmingham, Hodge HillLabourSigned
David HansonUnknownWithdrawn
Keith HillUnknownWithdrawn
Kate HoeyUnknownWithdrawn
Alan MealeUnknownWithdrawn
Patrick CormackUnknownWithdrawn
John GreenwayUnknownWithdrawn
Mike HallUnknownWithdrawn

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