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Incapacity Benefit Reform

EDM number 2487 in 2010-12, proposed by Alan Meale on 29/11/2011.
Categorised under the topic of Sickness, disability and carers' benefits.

That this House notes the report on the Government's Incapacity Benefits Reform published by the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, based at Sheffield Hallam University, which exposes the likely impact of such changes in different parts of the UK; is alarmed by its findings which showthat the numbers likely to be pushed off benefit entitlements by these measures will be much greater amongst the UK's older industrial areas where jobs are hardest to find; and calls on the Government to desist from the introduction of its benefits changes until such time as additional measures to promote local and regional economic development are firmly established.

This motion has been signed by a total of 22 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Alan Meale29/11/2011MansfieldLabourProposed
Jeremy Corbyn29/11/2011Islington NorthLabourSeconded
Ian Mearns29/11/2011GatesheadLabourSeconded
Mark Durkan30/11/2011FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySeconded
Jim Dobbin30/11/2011Heywood and MiddletonLabourSeconded
Martin Caton30/11/2011GowerLabourSeconded
Jim Shannon01/12/2011StrangfordDUPSigned
Tony Lloyd01/12/2011Manchester CentralLabourSigned
Iain McKenzie01/12/2011InverclydeLabourSigned
Lady Hermon06/12/2011North DownIndependentSigned
Yasmin Qureshi06/12/2011Bolton South EastLabourSigned
Margaret Ritchie08/12/2011South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Sandra Osborne08/12/2011Ayr, Carrick and CumnockLabourSigned
John McDonnell08/12/2011Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
William McCrea08/12/2011South AntrimDUPSigned
Elfyn Llwyd08/12/2011Dwyfor MeirionnyddPlaid CymruSigned
David Simpson08/12/2011Upper BannDUPSigned
Jim Sheridan08/12/2011Paisley and Renfrewshire NorthLabourSigned
Grahame Morris12/12/2011EasingtonLabourSigned
Paul Murphy14/12/2011TorfaenLabourSigned
Lindsay Roy19/01/2012GlenrothesLabourSigned
Stephen Hepburn23/01/2012JarrowLabourSigned

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