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Royal British Legion Campaign: Return To Rationing?

EDM number 2172 in 2007-08, proposed by Bob Russell on 06/10/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Elderly people and Incomes and poverty.

That this House acknowledges the latest campaign by The Royal British Legion entitled `Return to Rationing?' which tackles issues that are leading older members of the UK's ex-Service community into a life of poverty; notes that it is estimated that there are more than 2.5 million pensioners living on an income that is considered too low to maintain a healthy lifestyle, with Government figures showing that this number is increasing by hundreds of thousands every year; and calls on the Government to support the aims of the campaign, which is being promoted in collaboration with the charity Age Concern, to give more older people access to the financial benefits that they are entitled to, an automatic payment system for council tax benefit, making a full disregard of war pension income a statutory requirement, distributing a £50 fuel voucher to those aged over 70 and in receipt of pension credit and doubling the personal expense allowance for elderly care home residents.

This motion has been signed by a total of 44 MPs, 2 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Bob Russell06/10/2008ColchesterLiberal DemocratProposed
Mike Hancock06/10/2008Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSeconded
Adrian Sanders07/10/2008TorbayLiberal DemocratSeconded
Roger Williams07/10/2008Brecon and RadnorshireLiberal DemocratSeconded
Mark Hunter07/10/2008CheadleLiberal DemocratSeconded
Lindsay Hoyle07/10/2008ChorleyLabourSeconded
Andrew George07/10/2008St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
David Taylor07/10/2008North West LeicestershireLabourSigned
Martin Caton08/10/2008GowerLabourSigned
Dai Davies08/10/2008Blaenau GwentIndependentSigned
Jim Devine08/10/2008LivingstonLabourSigned
Mark Williams08/10/2008CeredigionLiberal DemocratSigned
Phil Willis08/10/2008Harrogate and KnaresboroughLiberal DemocratSigned
Gregory Campbell08/10/2008East LondonderryDUPSigned
Elfyn Llwyd08/10/2008Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Paul Holmes08/10/2008ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSigned
David Simpson08/10/2008Upper BannDUPSigned
Gordon Marsden09/10/2008Blackpool SouthLabourSigned
Alan Meale09/10/2008MansfieldLabourSigned
Colin Breed09/10/2008South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Jim Cousins09/10/2008Newcastle upon Tyne CentralLabourSigned
Betty Williams13/10/2008ConwyLabourSigned
Harry Cohen13/10/2008Leyton and WansteadLabourSigned
William McCrea13/10/2008South AntrimDUPSigned
Robert Wareing13/10/2008Liverpool, West DerbyIndependentSigned
Nicholas Winterton14/10/2008MacclesfieldConservativeSigned
Dan Rogerson14/10/2008North CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Janet Dean15/10/2008BurtonLabourSigned
Peter Bottomley15/10/2008Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Rudi Vis15/10/2008Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Jeffrey M Donaldson16/10/2008Lagan ValleyDUPSigned
John Leech16/10/2008Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Richard Younger-Ross20/10/2008TeignbridgeLiberal DemocratSigned
Brian Jenkins21/10/2008TamworthLabourSigned
Jo Swinson21/10/2008East DunbartonshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Simpson22/10/2008Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Lady Hermon22/10/2008North DownUUPSigned
David Hamilton22/10/2008MidlothianLabourSigned
Sandra Gidley27/10/2008RomseyLiberal DemocratSigned
John Barrett04/11/2008Edinburgh WestLiberal DemocratSigned
Edward Davey06/11/2008Kingston and SurbitonLiberal DemocratSigned
Norman Lamb20/11/2008North NorfolkLiberal DemocratSigned
Vincent CableUnknownWithdrawn
Nick HarveyUnknownWithdrawn

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