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Funding For Farm Animal Diseases

EDM number 1220 in 2006-07, proposed by Paul Flynn on 27/03/2007.

That this House believes that the increase in farm incomes of 25 per cent. last year justifies a reassessment of the free insurance scheme provided by taxpayers for farm animals; notes that no other industry enjoys free insurance; is alarmed that since 2002 taxpayers have paid £13 million for animals who died from bovine spongiform encephalopathy, £24 million for scrapie and £166 million for bovine tuberculosis; and urges the farming industry to escape the dependency victim culture and pay their own insurance premiums.

This motion has been signed by a total of 12 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Paul Flynn27/03/2007Newport WestLabourProposed
Rob Marris28/03/2007Wolverhampton South WestLabourSeconded
Andrew Dismore28/03/2007HendonLabourSeconded
Mike Hancock28/03/2007Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSeconded
Dai Davies28/03/2007Blaenau GwentIndependentSeconded
Rudi Vis28/03/2007Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSeconded
Bill Etherington16/04/2007Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn17/04/2007Islington NorthLabourSigned
David Simpson18/04/2007Upper BannDUPSigned
Phil Willis20/04/2007Harrogate and KnaresboroughLiberal DemocratSigned
John McDonnell23/04/2007Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Alan Simpson01/05/2007Nottingham SouthLabourSigned

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