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Gap Between Rich And Poor

EDM number 1589 in 2003-04, proposed by Bob Russell on 07/09/2004.

That this House is dismayed that the gap between rich and poor has widened since 1997; is disturbed that the percentage of wealth held by the top 10 per cent. of the population has increased from 47 per cent. to 54 per cent.; congratulates the Institute of Public Policy Research Commission on Social Justice, set up at the reqest of the late Labour leader John Smith, for drawing these worrying facts to public attention; and calls on the Government to explain why over the past seven years the gap between rich and poor has widened with the result that Britain has become a less equal society.

This motion has been signed by a total of 34 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Bob Russell07/09/2004ColchesterLiberal DemocratProposed
Paul Holmes08/09/2004ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSigned
Elfyn Llwyd08/09/2004Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Andrew George08/09/2004St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Mike Hancock08/09/2004Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Harry Barnes08/09/2004North East DerbyshireLabourSigned
Peter Bottomley08/09/2004Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Paul Tyler09/09/2004North CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Annette Brooke09/09/2004Mid Dorset & North PooleLiberal DemocratSigned
Adam Price09/09/2004Carmarthen East & DinefwrPlaid CymruSigned
Brian Iddon13/09/2004Bolton South EastLabourSigned
Ann Cryer13/09/2004KeighleyLabourSigned
Harold Best13/09/2004Leeds North WestLabourSigned
Marsha Singh14/09/2004Bradford WestLabourSigned
Nigel Jones14/09/2004CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Hywel Francis14/09/2004AberavonLabourSigned
Andrew Stunell14/09/2004Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
Terry Lewis15/09/2004WorsleyLabourSigned
Roger Williams15/09/2004Brecon & RadnorshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Bill Etherington15/09/2004Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Tom Brake15/09/2004Carshalton & WallingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
John McDonnell16/09/2004Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
Janet Dean16/09/2004BurtonLabourSigned
Alan Simpson11/10/2004Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins11/10/2004Luton NorthLabourSigned
Paul Marsden11/10/2004Shrewsbury & AtchamLiberal DemocratSigned
Vincent Cable11/10/2004TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
David Drew11/10/2004StroudLabour Co-operativeSigned
David Taylor12/10/2004North West LeicestershireLabour Co-operativeSigned
John Pugh14/10/2004SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
Jeremy Corbyn14/10/2004Islington NorthLabourSigned
Angus Robertson20/10/2004MorayScottish National PartySigned
Diane Abbott21/10/2004Hackney North & Stoke NewingtonLabourSigned
Parmjit Gill11/11/2004Leicester SouthLiberal DemocratSigned

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