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Freeze On Council Tax Rebanding In Wales

EDM number 802 in 2005-06, proposed by Jenny Willott on 19/10/2005.

That this House regrets the fact that Welsh residents are bearing the unfair burden of the revaluation process in Wales, which has resulted in one in three houses going up by one or more bands and only one in 12 houses moving down one or more bands; calls on the Secretary of State for Wales to press the Welsh Assembly Government to freeze council tax rebanding in Wales at its current rate so that no further increases take place in Wales until the Lyons Inquiry reports at the end of 2006; condemns this Government's cowardly political opportunism for postponing the English rebanding following the electorally damaging impact of revaluation in Wales; and believes that the entire council tax system, which causes the poorest 20 per cent. of society to pay more as a share of their income than the richest 20 per cent. of society, should be scrapped and replaced with a fairer local income tax, based on people's ability to pay, not on the value of their homes.

This motion has been signed by a total of 36 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Jennifer Willott19/10/2005Cardiff CentralLiberal DemocratProposed
Elfyn Llwyd20/10/2005Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSeconded
Mark Williams20/10/2005CeredigionLiberal DemocratSeconded
Greg Mulholland21/10/2005Leeds North WestLiberal DemocratSeconded
Adam Price24/10/2005Carmarthen East and DinefwrPlaid CymruSeconded
John Leech24/10/2005Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSeconded
Iris Robinson25/10/2005StrangfordDUPSigned
Annette Brooke25/10/2005Mid Dorset and North PooleLiberal DemocratSigned
Hywel Williams26/10/2005CaernarfonPlaid CymruSigned
Vincent Cable27/10/2005TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew George27/10/2005St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
John Hemming28/10/2005Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Holmes31/10/2005ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSigned
Lembit 31/10/2005MontgomeryshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Jo Swinson01/11/2005East DunbartonshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Julia Goldsworthy01/11/2005Falmouth and CamborneLiberal DemocratSigned
Colin Breed01/11/2005South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Keetch01/11/2005HerefordLiberal DemocratSigned
Menzies Campbell01/11/2005North East FifeLiberal DemocratSigned
Tom Brake02/11/2005Carshalton and WallingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Malcolm Bruce02/11/2005GordonLiberal DemocratSigned
Lynne Featherstone02/11/2005Hornsey and Wood GreenLiberal DemocratSigned
Lorely Burt03/11/2005SolihullLiberal DemocratSigned
Tim Farron07/11/2005Westmorland and LonsdaleLiberal DemocratSigned
Roger Williams07/11/2005Brecon and RadnorshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Nicholas Clegg07/11/2005Sheffield, HallamLiberal DemocratSigned
Norman Lamb07/11/2005North NorfolkLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Moore10/11/2005Berwickshire, Roxburgh and SelkirkLiberal DemocratSigned
Matthew Taylor14/11/2005Truro and St AustellLiberal DemocratSigned
Evan Harris24/11/2005Oxford West and AbingdonLiberal DemocratSigned
Simon Hughes29/11/2005North Southwark and BermondseyLiberal DemocratSigned
Martin Horwood29/11/2005CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew Stunell05/12/2005Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
John Barrett06/12/2005Edinburgh WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Phil Willis20/01/2006Harrogate and KnaresboroughLiberal DemocratSigned
Hywel FrancisUnknownWithdrawn

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