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Funding Decent Council Housing

EDM number 136 in 2006-07, proposed by Austin Mitchell on 16/11/2006.

That this House welcomes the decision of Labour's Party conference again, to call on Government to provide the fourth option of direct investment to council housing as a matter or urgency; notes the rising number of tenants' ballots against stock transfer and the growing demands from tenants, councillors and trade unions for a change in Government policy, the strong lobbying from local authorities anxious to retain their homes, as well as from many with arm's length management organisations, or yet to decide; notes the criticism of existing policy from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister Select Committee, the Audit Commission, the House of Commons Council Housing group and others; therefore suggests that direct investment in decent, affordable, secure and accountable council housing is now essential to provide housing needs for that rising proportion of people who are unable to get onto the ownership ladder because of escalating prices; and further suggests that an investment allowance funded through ring fencing all rents and capital receipts flowing to councils to supplement this by a level playing field on debt write-off and gap funding will enable local authorities to improve all council homes and start the necessary programme of building new council houses to meet housing need without major Government spending, thus ensuring respect for tenants' choice, stimulating the economy, enabling democratically elected local authorities to get on with their job and allowing the Government to meet its 2005 election manifesto commitment to ensure that all social tenants benefit from a decent warm home with modern facilities by 2010.

This motion has been signed by a total of 141 MPs, 4 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Austin Mitchell16/11/2006Great GrimsbyLabourProposed
Michael Meacher16/11/2006Oldham West and RoytonLabourSeconded
Paul Holmes16/11/2006ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSeconded
Brian Iddon16/11/2006Bolton South EastLabourSeconded
Jon Cruddas20/11/2006DagenhamLabourSeconded
Desmond Turner20/11/2006Brighton, KemptownLabourSeconded
Bob Russell20/11/2006ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
David Drew20/11/2006StroudLabourSigned
Ian Gibson20/11/2006Norwich NorthLabourSigned
Robert Wareing20/11/2006Liverpool, West DerbyLabourSigned
Stephen Williams20/11/2006Bristol WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Dennis Skinner21/11/2006BolsoverLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins21/11/2006Luton NorthLabourSigned
Lynne Jones21/11/2006Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Elfyn Llwyd21/11/2006Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Albert Owen21/11/2006Ynys MLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn21/11/2006Islington NorthLabourSigned
Jim Cousins21/11/2006Newcastle upon Tyne CentralLabourSigned
Jim Dobbin21/11/2006Heywood and MiddletonLabourSigned
Andrew George21/11/2006St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Roger Godsiff21/11/2006Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small HeathLabourSigned
David Taylor21/11/2006North West LeicestershireLabourSigned
John Leech21/11/2006Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Iris Robinson22/11/2006StrangfordDUPSigned
David Heyes22/11/2006Ashton-under-LyneLabourSigned
Alasdair McDonnell22/11/2006Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Colin Breed22/11/2006South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Ronnie Campbell22/11/2006Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Martin Caton22/11/2006GowerLabourSigned
Michael Clapham22/11/2006Barnsley West and PenistoneLabourSigned
David Crausby22/11/2006Bolton North EastLabourSigned
Jon Trickett22/11/2006HemsworthLabourSigned
Phil Willis22/11/2006Harrogate and KnaresboroughLiberal DemocratSigned
Katy Clark22/11/2006North Ayrshire and ArranLabourSigned
Evan Harris23/11/2006Oxford West and AbingdonLiberal DemocratSigned
Eric Illsley23/11/2006Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Ann Cryer23/11/2006KeighleyLabourSigned
Paul Flynn23/11/2006Newport WestLabourSigned
Neil Gerrard23/11/2006WalthamstowLabourSigned
David Hamilton23/11/2006MidlothianLabourSigned
John Hemming23/11/2006Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Julie Morgan27/11/2006Cardiff NorthLabourSigned
Kate Hoey27/11/2006VauxhallLabourSigned
John McDonnell27/11/2006Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
David Chaytor27/11/2006Bury NorthLabourSigned
Michael Connarty27/11/2006Linlithgow and East FalkirkLabourSigned
Graham Stringer27/11/2006Manchester, BlackleyLabourSigned
Marsha Singh28/11/2006Bradford WestLabourSigned
Quentin Davies28/11/2006Grantham & StamfordConservativeSigned
John Thurso28/11/2006Caithness, Sutherland and Easter RossLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Truswell28/11/2006PudseyLabourSigned
Linda Riordan28/11/2006HalifaxLabourSigned
Martyn Jones29/11/2006Clwyd SouthLabourSigned
Tony Lloyd29/11/2006Manchester CentralLabourSigned
Harry Cohen29/11/2006Leyton and WansteadLabourSigned
Mike Hancock29/11/2006Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Rudi Vis29/11/2006Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Dai Davies29/11/2006Blaenau GwentIndependentSigned
Alan Simpson30/11/2006Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Gavin Strang30/11/2006Edinburgh EastLabourSigned
Richard Burden04/12/2006Birmingham, NorthfieldLabourSigned
Colin Burgon04/12/2006ElmetLabourSigned
Bill Etherington04/12/2006Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Diane Abbott04/12/2006Hackney North and Stoke NewingtonLabourSigned
Tim Farron04/12/2006Westmorland and LonsdaleLiberal DemocratSigned
Clare Short05/12/2006Birmingham, LadywoodIndependent LabourSigned
Tom Brake05/12/2006Carshalton and WallingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
John Grogan05/12/2006SelbyLabourSigned
Dan Rogerson05/12/2006North CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Rowen05/12/2006RochdaleLiberal DemocratSigned
David Anderson06/12/2006BlaydonLabourSigned
Nia Griffith06/12/2006LlanelliLabourSigned
Gordon Prentice07/12/2006PendleLabourSigned
Paul Keetch07/12/2006HerefordLiberal DemocratSigned
George Mudie07/12/2006Leeds EastLabourSigned
Ian Davidson07/12/2006Glasgow South WestLabourSigned
Colin Challen11/12/2006Morley and RothwellLabourSigned
Roger Berry11/12/2006KingswoodLabourSigned
Mike Gapes12/12/2006Ilford SouthLabourSigned
David Howarth12/12/2006CambridgeLiberal DemocratSigned
David Marshall18/12/2006Glasgow EastLabourSigned
Hugh Bayley18/12/2006City of YorkLabourSigned
Frank Cook08/01/2007Stockton NorthLabourSigned
Clive Efford08/01/2007ElthamLabourSigned
Patrick Hall08/01/2007BedfordLabourSigned
Clive Betts08/01/2007Sheffield, AttercliffeLabourSigned
Brian Binley08/01/2007Northampton SouthConservativeSigned
Jeremy Browne08/01/2007TauntonLiberal DemocratSigned
Lorely Burt08/01/2007SolihullLiberal DemocratSigned
Roberta Blackman-Woods09/01/2007City of DurhamLabourSigned
Martin Horwood09/01/2007CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Sandra Gidley15/01/2007RomseyLiberal DemocratSigned
Dai Havard17/01/2007Merthyr Tydfil and RhymneyLabourSigned
Mark Fisher17/01/2007Stoke-on-Trent CentralLabourSigned
John Austin19/01/2007Erith and ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Lindsay Hoyle23/01/2007ChorleyLabourSigned
William McCrea31/01/2007South AntrimDUPSigned
Andrew Miller31/01/2007Ellesmere Port and NestonLabourSigned
Nigel Dodds31/01/2007Belfast NorthDUPSigned
Stephen Hepburn01/02/2007JarrowLabourSigned
Mark Oaten05/02/2007WinchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Frank Dobson08/02/2007Holborn and St PancrasLabourSigned
Martin Salter19/02/2007Reading WestLabourSigned
Lynne Featherstone23/02/2007Hornsey and Wood GreenLiberal DemocratSigned
Bill Olner27/02/2007NuneatonLabourSigned
Laura Moffatt28/02/2007CrawleyLabourSigned
David Clelland28/02/2007Tyne BridgeLabourSigned
Peter Kilfoyle01/03/2007Liverpool, WaltonLabourSigned
Jim McGovern02/03/2007Dundee WestLabourSigned
Joan Walley09/03/2007Stoke-on-Trent NorthLabourSigned
Jennifer Willott22/03/2007Cardiff CentralLiberal DemocratSigned
Adam Price16/04/2007Carmarthen East and DinefwrPlaid CymruSigned
Simon Hughes16/04/2007North Southwark and BermondseyLiberal DemocratSigned
Anthony D Wright16/04/2007Great YarmouthLabourSigned
Ken Purchase17/04/2007Wolverhampton North EastLabourSigned
Janet Dean17/04/2007BurtonLabourSigned
Gwyn Prosser23/04/2007DoverLabourSigned
Betty Williams24/04/2007ConwyLabourSigned
Chris McCafferty25/04/2007Calder ValleyLabourSigned
Peter Soulsby15/05/2007Leicester SouthLabourSigned
Doug Naysmith13/06/2007Bristol North WestLabourSigned
Frank Doran14/06/2007Aberdeen NorthLabourSigned
Louise Ellman15/06/2007Liverpool, RiversideLabourSigned
Don Foster15/06/2007BathLiberal DemocratSigned
Jo Swinson15/06/2007East DunbartonshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Fabian Hamilton18/06/2007Leeds North EastLabourSigned
Norman Baker18/06/2007LewesLiberal DemocratSigned
Martin Linton19/06/2007BatterseaLabourSigned
Mike Wood19/06/2007Batley and SpenLabourSigned
Madeleine Moon19/06/2007BridgendLabourSigned
Alan Meale20/06/2007MansfieldLabourSigned
Edward Davey20/06/2007Kingston and SurbitonLiberal DemocratSigned
Nicholas Clegg25/06/2007Sheffield, HallamLiberal DemocratSigned
Glenda Jackson09/07/2007Hampstead and HighgateLabourSigned
Ian Stewart09/07/2007EcclesLabourSigned
Doug Henderson12/07/2007Newcastle upon Tyne NorthLabourSigned
Greg Mulholland25/07/2007Leeds North WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Nicholas BrownUnknownWithdrawn
Helen GoodmanUnknownWithdrawn
Sadiq KhanUnknownWithdrawn
Joan RuddockUnknownWithdrawn

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