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European Social Fund And Retraining

EDM number 332 in 2008-09, proposed by Michael Connarty on 17/12/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Training, Unemployment and EU grants and loans.

That this House welcomes the Government's decision to pledge a further £58 million from the European Social Fund (ESF) allocation to retrain people facing redundancy in addition to the £100 million pledged to the scheme in October 2008, in contrast to the lack of action by the minority SNP Scottish government which has failed to pledge any of its ESF funding for assistance to those facing the impact of unemployment when Scotland faces the additional problem of a freeze in the commissioning of new public sector capital works due to the failure of the SNP proposed Scottish Futures Trust funding method; and calls upon the appropriate Government department and the Secretary of State for Scotland to enter into discussions with the Scottish government to try to convince it of the error of its ways and the merits of such a scheme.

This motion has been signed by a total of 36 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Michael Connarty17/12/2008Linlithgow and East FalkirkLabourProposed
Sandra Osborne17/12/2008Ayr, Carrick and CumnockLabourSeconded
Jim Cunningham17/12/2008Coventry SouthLabourSeconded
Anne McGuire17/12/2008StirlingLabourSeconded
Anne Begg17/12/2008Aberdeen SouthLabourSeconded
Katy Clark17/12/2008North Ayrshire and ArranLabourSeconded
Russell Brown17/12/2008Dumfries and GallowayLabourSigned
Lindsay Roy17/12/2008GlenrothesLabourSigned
Jim Devine17/12/2008LivingstonLabourSigned
Jim McGovern17/12/2008Dundee WestLabourSigned
Gordon Banks17/12/2008Ochil and South PerthshireLabourSigned
David Anderson17/12/2008BlaydonLabourSigned
Brian H Donohoe17/12/2008Central AyrshireLabourSigned
David Cairns17/12/2008InverclydeLabourSigned
Rosemary McKenna17/12/2008Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch EastLabourSigned
Tom Harris17/12/2008Glasgow SouthLabourSigned
Jim Sheridan17/12/2008Paisley and Renfrewshire NorthLabourSigned
Anne Moffat17/12/2008East LothianLabourSigned
John McDonnell18/12/2008Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Mike Hancock18/12/2008Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Jeremy Corbyn18/12/2008Islington NorthLabourSigned
Brian Iddon12/01/2009Bolton South EastLabourSigned
Jim Dobbin12/01/2009Heywood and MiddletonLabourSigned
Betty Williams12/01/2009ConwyLabourSigned
David Drew13/01/2009StroudLabourSigned
Denis Murphy14/01/2009WansbeckLabourSigned
Ann Cryer14/01/2009KeighleyLabourSigned
Janet Dean14/01/2009BurtonLabourSigned
Bill Etherington14/01/2009Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Marsha Singh15/01/2009Bradford WestLabourSigned
Rudi Vis19/01/2009Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Alan Simpson21/01/2009Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
David Hamilton22/01/2009MidlothianLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins27/01/2009TamworthLabourSigned
Eric Illsley23/02/2009Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Ian GibsonUnknownWithdrawn

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