National Campaign Spending Limits

EDM number 509 in 1999-00, proposed by Martin Linton on 10/03/2000.

That this House wishes to reverse the 'arms race' of national campaign spending between the major parties, which spent roughly ú26 and ú28 million in the 1997 election campaign; notes the comment of the former General Secretary of the Labour Party Lord Sawyer, that in order to raise that kind of money he 'had to seek donations of up to ú1 million'; fears the limit of ú20 million proposed by the Neill Committee will be too high to end the parties' dependence on millionaire funding; and prefers the limit of ú15 million proposed by Lord Sawyer on behalf of the Labour Party.

This motion has been signed by a total of 42 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Martin Linton	10/03/2000	Battersea	Labour	Proposed
Alan Simpson	13/03/2000	Nottingham South	Labour	Signed
Harry Barnes	13/03/2000	North East Derbyshire	Labour	Signed
Martin Bell	13/03/2000	Tatton	Independent	Signed
Terry Davis	14/03/2000	Birmingham, Hodge Hill	Labour	Signed
Mike Gapes	14/03/2000	Ilford South	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Norman Godman	14/03/2000	Greenock & Inverclyde	Labour	Signed
Roger Berry	14/03/2000	Kingswood	Labour	Signed
David Taylor	14/03/2000	North West Leicestershire	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Jeremy Corbyn	14/03/2000	Islington North	Labour	Signed
David Chaytor	14/03/2000	Bury North	Labour	Signed
Stephen Hepburn	14/03/2000	Jarrow	Labour	Signed
Nigel Jones	14/03/2000	Cheltenham	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Bill Michie	14/03/2000	Sheffield, Heeley	Labour	Signed
Ronnie Campbell	14/03/2000	Blyth Valley	Labour	Signed
Martin Caton	14/03/2000	Gower	Labour	Signed
Paul Tyler	15/03/2000	North Cornwall	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Christine Butler	15/03/2000	Castle Point	Labour	Signed
Peter Bradley	15/03/2000	Wrekin, The	Labour	Signed
Alice Mahon	15/03/2000	Halifax	Labour	Signed
Lynne Jones	15/03/2000	Birmingham, Selly Oak	Labour	Signed
Kelvin Hopkins	15/03/2000	Luton North	Labour	Signed
Dennis Skinner	15/03/2000	Bolsover	Labour	Signed
Allan Rogers	15/03/2000	Rhondda	Labour	Signed
Dafydd Wigley	16/03/2000	Caernarfon	Plaid Cymru	Signed
John Austin	16/03/2000	Erith & Thamesmead	Labour	Signed
Jenny Jones	16/03/2000	Wolverhampton South West	Labour	Signed
Evan Harris	16/03/2000	Oxford West & Abingdon	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Phil Sawford	16/03/2000	Kettering	Labour	Signed
Bill Etherington	17/03/2000	Sunderland North	Labour	Signed
Rudi Vis	20/03/2000	Finchley & Golders Green	Labour	Signed
Joe Ashton	20/03/2000	Bassetlaw	Labour	Signed
Andrew George	20/03/2000	St Ives	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Paul Flynn	20/03/2000	Newport West	Labour	Signed
Karen Buck	20/03/2000			Signed
David Crausby	21/03/2000	Bolton North East	Labour	Signed
Ann Cryer	21/03/2000	Keighley	Labour	Signed
Andrew Stunell	23/03/2000	Hazel Grove	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Donald Gorrie	27/03/2000	Edinburgh West	Liberal Democrat	Signed
David Drew	30/03/2000	Stroud	Labour Co-operative	Signed
Nick Harvey	06/04/2000	North Devon	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John McDonnell	06/04/2000	Hayes & Harlington	Labour	Signed

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