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Mobility Component Of Disability Living Allowance

EDM number 204 in 2008-09, proposed by Martin Caton on 09/12/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Children and families and Sickness, disability and carers' benefits.

That this House is concerned that current rules deny disabled children under three years of age the mobility component of Disability Living Allowance (DLA), meaning that their families get no help with mobility costs, no access to the specialised vehicle fund and no exemption from vehicle excise duty; further notes that some very young, severely disabled children need a range of heavy and bulky therapeutic equipment when they move from place to place, including special car seats and wheelchairs designed to aid postural management, standing frames to help hip joint development, feeding aids and respiratory equipment; recognises that often these essentials cannot be accommodated in an ordinary family car; and calls on the Government to review the rule that denies the mobility component of DLA to all children under the age of three years, in order to improve the quality of life of these severely disabled children and their families.

This motion has been signed by a total of 43 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Martin Caton09/12/2008GowerLabourProposed
Mark Durkan09/12/2008FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySeconded
Andrew George09/12/2008St IvesLiberal DemocratSeconded
Peter Bottomley09/12/2008Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Robert Wareing10/12/2008Liverpool, West DerbyIndependentSeconded
Desmond Turner10/12/2008Brighton, KemptownLabourSeconded
David Drew10/12/2008StroudLabourSigned
John Leech10/12/2008Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
David Taylor10/12/2008North West LeicestershireLabourSigned
Gregory Campbell10/12/2008East LondonderryDUPSigned
Colin Breed10/12/2008South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Lynne Jones10/12/2008Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Paul Holmes10/12/2008ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSigned
Evan Harris10/12/2008Oxford West and AbingdonLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Simpson11/12/2008Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
David Clelland11/12/2008Tyne BridgeLabourSigned
Ann Cryer11/12/2008KeighleyLabourSigned
Jim Dobbin11/12/2008Heywood and MiddletonLabourSigned
Neil Gerrard11/12/2008WalthamstowLabourSigned
Mike Hancock11/12/2008Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
John Horam15/12/2008OrpingtonConservativeSigned
John Mason15/12/2008Glasgow EastScottish National PartySigned
David Anderson15/12/2008BlaydonLabourSigned
John McDonnell15/12/2008Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Bob Spink15/12/2008Castle PointIndependentSigned
Betty Williams15/12/2008ConwyLabourSigned
Eric Illsley16/12/2008Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Frank Cook16/12/2008Stockton NorthLabourSigned
Janet Dean16/12/2008BurtonLabourSigned
Bill Etherington16/12/2008Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Katy Clark16/12/2008North Ayrshire and ArranLabourSigned
Nick Harvey17/12/2008North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
Nigel Dodds17/12/2008Belfast NorthDUPSigned
Hywel Williams18/12/2008CaernarfonPlaid CymruSigned
Jo Swinson18/12/2008East DunbartonshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Eddie McGrady12/01/2009South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Hywel Francis12/01/2009AberavonLabourSigned
Rudi Vis19/01/2009Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Adam Price26/01/2009Carmarthen East and DinefwrPlaid CymruSigned
Albert Owen27/01/2009Ynys MLabourSigned
Mark Williams06/03/2009CeredigionLiberal DemocratSigned
Tom Levitt18/03/2009High PeakLabourSigned
Michael Jabez FosterUnknownWithdrawn

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