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Tax Credits

EDM number 818 in 2006-07, proposed by David Laws on 05/02/2007.

That this House notes with concern that in 2004-05 almost two million people were overpaid tax credits at a cost of £1.8 billion and that the Comptroller and Auditor General in his report of HM Revenue and Customs' accounts predicted that overpayments of a similar magnitude will have occurred in 2005-06; recognises that when a tax credit is overpaid the Tax Credit Office makes an assumption that the claimant is at fault and thus automatically claims back the overpayment, often leading to great anxiety and financial hardship for the claimant; and therefore calls upon the Government to reverse the burden of proof when claiming back all overpaid tax credits, and to bring forward proposals to return to a system of fixed awards to deliver stability for tax credit claimants on low incomes.

This motion has been signed by a total of 70 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
David Laws05/02/2007YeovilLiberal DemocratProposed
Danny Alexander05/02/2007Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and StrathspeyLiberal DemocratSeconded
Bob Spink05/02/2007Castle PointConservativeSeconded
Bob Russell05/02/2007ColchesterLiberal DemocratSeconded
Paul Holmes06/02/2007ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSeconded
Hywel Williams06/02/2007CaernarfonPlaid CymruSeconded
Gregory Campbell06/02/2007East LondonderryDUPSigned
Peter Bottomley06/02/2007Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Stephen Williams06/02/2007Bristol WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Phil Willis07/02/2007Harrogate and KnaresboroughLiberal DemocratSigned
Willie Rennie07/02/2007Dunfermline and West FifeLiberal DemocratSigned
Mark Hunter07/02/2007CheadleLiberal DemocratSigned
Mark Williams07/02/2007CeredigionLiberal DemocratSigned
Norman Baker07/02/2007LewesLiberal DemocratSigned
Mike Hancock07/02/2007Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew George07/02/2007St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Ronnie Campbell07/02/2007Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Annette Brooke07/02/2007Mid Dorset and North PooleLiberal DemocratSigned
Colin Breed07/02/2007South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Simpson07/02/2007Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
William McCrea07/02/2007South AntrimDUPSigned
Elfyn Llwyd07/02/2007Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
David Simpson07/02/2007Upper BannDUPSigned
Jeffrey M Donaldson07/02/2007Lagan ValleyDUPSigned
Lembit 08/02/2007MontgomeryshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Greg Mulholland08/02/2007Leeds North WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Lorely Burt08/02/2007SolihullLiberal DemocratSigned
Sarah Teather08/02/2007Brent EastLiberal DemocratSigned
Neil Gerrard08/02/2007WalthamstowLabourSigned
Don Foster08/02/2007BathLiberal DemocratSigned
Vincent Cable08/02/2007TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Norman Lamb08/02/2007North NorfolkLiberal DemocratSigned
Charles Kennedy08/02/2007Ross, Skye and LochaberLiberal DemocratSigned
David Heath08/02/2007Somerton & FromeLiberal DemocratSigned
John Pugh08/02/2007SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
Evan Harris19/02/2007Oxford West and AbingdonLiberal DemocratSigned
Jo Swinson19/02/2007East DunbartonshireLiberal DemocratSigned
David Howarth19/02/2007CambridgeLiberal DemocratSigned
Julia Goldsworthy19/02/2007Falmouth and CamborneLiberal DemocratSigned
Lynne Featherstone19/02/2007Hornsey and Wood GreenLiberal DemocratSigned
Katy Clark19/02/2007North Ayrshire and ArranLabourSigned
John Thurso19/02/2007Caithness, Sutherland and Easter RossLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Beith19/02/2007Berwick-upon-TweedLiberal DemocratSigned
Ann Cryer19/02/2007KeighleyLabourSigned
Paul Keetch19/02/2007HerefordLiberal DemocratSigned
Kelvin Hopkins19/02/2007Luton NorthLabourSigned
Richard Younger-Ross19/02/2007TeignbridgeLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew Stunell20/02/2007Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
Tony Wright20/02/2007Cannock ChaseLabourSigned
John Leech20/02/2007Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Anne Main21/02/2007St AlbansConservativeSigned
Martin Horwood21/02/2007CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Rudi Vis21/02/2007Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Paul Burstow21/02/2007Sutton and CheamLiberal DemocratSigned
Tom Brake21/02/2007Carshalton and WallingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Matthew Taylor21/02/2007Truro and St AustellLiberal DemocratSigned
Eddie McGrady22/02/2007South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Derek Conway22/02/2007Old Bexley & SidcupConservativeSigned
Edward Davey22/02/2007Kingston and SurbitonLiberal DemocratSigned
Sandra Gidley23/02/2007RomseyLiberal DemocratSigned
Jeremy Browne26/02/2007TauntonLiberal DemocratSigned
Lady Hermon26/02/2007North DownUUPSigned
John Hemming27/02/2007Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Simon Hughes01/03/2007North Southwark and BermondseyLiberal DemocratSigned
Nicholas Clegg02/03/2007Sheffield, HallamLiberal DemocratSigned
John Barrett02/03/2007Edinburgh WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Jennifer Willott22/03/2007Cardiff CentralLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Rowen18/04/2007RochdaleLiberal DemocratSigned
Nick Harvey15/05/2007North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
David Anderson15/05/2007BlaydonLabourSigned

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