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Legal Aid Reform And Family Mediation Services

EDM number 1475 in 2006-07, proposed by David Drew on 15/05/2007.

That this House welcomes the recent National Audit Office (NAO) report, Legal Aid and Mediation for People involved in Family Breakdown, which recognises that, compared to settlement through the courts, resolving family disputes through mediation is not only quicker and less acrimonious, but also cheaper, and recommends the expansion of family mediation services and referral of divorcing couples to mediation, noting that family mediation services are well-distributed throughout England and Wales; regrets that the Legal Services Commission (LSC) appears not to have taken account of this report, basing its proposed new funding for mediation on current levels of take-up; notes with concern that unless the LSC fulfils the obligation placed on it by its Funding Code to ensure that divorcing couples are referred to mediation many family mediation services will close under the proposed new funding regime; and urges the Government to press the LSC to carry out this obligation, to revise its new funding proposals in the light of the NAO report and to implement fully the recommendations of that report.

This motion has been signed by a total of 97 MPs, 3 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
David Drew15/05/2007StroudLabourProposed
Dari Taylor15/05/2007Stockton SouthLabourSeconded
Peter Bottomley15/05/2007Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Jeremy Wright15/05/2007Rugby and KenilworthConservativeSeconded
Annette Brooke15/05/2007Mid Dorset and North PooleLiberal DemocratSeconded
Lorely Burt15/05/2007SolihullLiberal DemocratSeconded
Andrew George15/05/2007St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Tony Baldry15/05/2007BanburyConservativeSigned
Alan Meale15/05/2007MansfieldLabourSigned
Bob Spink15/05/2007Castle PointConservativeSigned
Bob Russell15/05/2007ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
David Lepper16/05/2007Brighton, PavilionLabourSigned
Rudi Vis16/05/2007Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Desmond Turner16/05/2007Brighton, KemptownLabourSigned
Mike Hancock16/05/2007Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Ian Gibson16/05/2007Norwich NorthLabourSigned
Hywel Francis16/05/2007AberavonLabourSigned
Andrew Dismore16/05/2007HendonLabourSigned
Derek Conway16/05/2007Old Bexley & SidcupConservativeSigned
Martin Caton16/05/2007GowerLabourSigned
Gregory Campbell16/05/2007East LondonderryDUPSigned
Alasdair McDonnell16/05/2007Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Lynne Jones16/05/2007Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Glenda Jackson16/05/2007Hampstead and HighgateLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins16/05/2007Luton NorthLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins17/05/2007TamworthLabourSigned
Paul Flynn17/05/2007Newport WestLabourSigned
Jeff Ennis17/05/2007Barnsley East and MexboroughLabourSigned
Michael Clapham17/05/2007Barnsley West and PenistoneLabourSigned
Vincent Cable17/05/2007TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Janet Dean17/05/2007BurtonLabourSigned
Gordon Marsden18/05/2007Blackpool SouthLabourSigned
Laura Moffatt18/05/2007CrawleyLabourSigned
Michael Jabez Foster18/05/2007Hastings and RyeLabourSigned
Janet Anderson18/05/2007Rossendale and DarwenLabourSigned
Derek Wyatt18/05/2007Sittingbourne and SheppeyLabourSigned
Sandra Gidley21/05/2007RomseyLiberal DemocratSigned
John Hemming21/05/2007Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Mark Hunter21/05/2007CheadleLiberal DemocratSigned
Bill Olner23/05/2007NuneatonLabourSigned
Ben Wallace23/05/2007Lancaster and WyreConservativeSigned
Colin Breed23/05/2007South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Holmes24/05/2007ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSigned
Bill Etherington24/05/2007Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Neil Gerrard24/05/2007WalthamstowLabourSigned
Dan Rogerson24/05/2007North CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
John Leech04/06/2007Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
David Burrowes04/06/2007Enfield, SouthgateConservativeSigned
David Clelland04/06/2007Tyne BridgeLabourSigned
Betty Williams04/06/2007ConwyLabourSigned
Paul Keetch04/06/2007HerefordLiberal DemocratSigned
David Hamilton04/06/2007MidlothianLabourSigned
Lindsay Hoyle04/06/2007ChorleyLabourSigned
Ann Cryer05/06/2007KeighleyLabourSigned
Jim Dobbin05/06/2007Heywood and MiddletonLabourSigned
Alan Beith05/06/2007Berwick-upon-TweedLiberal DemocratSigned
Lynne Featherstone05/06/2007Hornsey and Wood GreenLiberal DemocratSigned
Fraser Kemp06/06/2007Houghton and Washington EastLabourSigned
David Anderson06/06/2007BlaydonLabourSigned
Tim Farron06/06/2007Westmorland and LonsdaleLiberal DemocratSigned
Sarah McCarthy-Fry06/06/2007Portsmouth NorthLabourSigned
David Borrow07/06/2007South RibbleLabourSigned
Natascha Engel07/06/2007North East DerbyshireLabourSigned
Ian Lucas07/06/2007WrexhamLabourSigned
Dennis Skinner07/06/2007BolsoverLabourSigned
John Pugh11/06/2007SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
Nick Harvey11/06/2007North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
Martyn Jones11/06/2007Clwyd SouthLabourSigned
Mark Todd11/06/2007South DerbyshireLabourSigned
Joan Humble12/06/2007Blackpool North and FleetwoodLabourSigned
Peter Atkinson12/06/2007HexhamConservativeSigned
Alan Simpson13/06/2007Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Adam Holloway18/06/2007GraveshamConservativeSigned
Sarah Teather18/06/2007Brent EastLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew Selous18/06/2007South West BedfordshireConservativeSigned
Angela Watkinson18/06/2007UpminsterConservativeSigned
Oliver Heald19/06/2007North East HertfordshireConservativeSigned
Doug Naysmith19/06/2007Bristol North WestLabourSigned
Michael Fabricant19/06/2007LichfieldConservativeSigned
Cheryl Gillan19/06/2007Chesham and AmershamConservativeSigned
Eric Illsley20/06/2007Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Eleanor Laing20/06/2007Epping ForestConservativeSigned
David Jones20/06/2007Clwyd WestConservativeSigned
John Horam21/06/2007OrpingtonConservativeSigned
James Duddridge21/06/2007Rochford and Southend EastConservativeSigned
Ronnie Campbell25/06/2007Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Elfyn Llwyd26/06/2007Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Maria Miller27/06/2007BasingstokeConservativeSigned
Norman Lamb04/07/2007North NorfolkLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Truswell04/07/2007PudseyLabourSigned
Andrew Pelling25/07/2007Croydon CentralConservativeSigned
Martin Horwood26/07/2007CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Bob Neill26/07/2007Bromley and ChislehurstConservativeSigned
Paul Rowen29/10/2007RochdaleLiberal DemocratSigned
Wayne DavidUnknownWithdrawn
Mark TamiUnknownWithdrawn
Sadiq KhanUnknownWithdrawn

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