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EDM number 871 in 2010-12, proposed by William Cash on 20/10/2010.
Categorised under the topics of EU budget and EU institutions.

That this House notes that there are increasing demands from France and Germany for a new European Union Treaty; further notes that theEuropean Parliament itself has now proposed a 5.9 per cent. increase in the European budget; further notes that the United Kingdom Parliament on Wednesday 13 October 2010 rejected the increase; furthernotes that the EU Budget Commissioner Janusz Lewandowski is proposing a European tax; recalls that the Coalition Agreement is committed to a referendum on `any proposed future treaty that transferred areas of power, or competences'; calls on the Government to make it immediately clear to France and Germany, to the European Commission and to the European Parliament that the United Kingdom will reject a European tax and an increase in the EU budget and EU economic governance over the UK and will veto any such treaty; and reasserts and reaffirms the United Kingdom rebate and the sovereignty, in practice, of the United Kingdom Parliament, about which the European Scrutiny Committee is holding an inquiry.

This motion has been signed by a total of 32 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Priti Patel20/10/2010WithamConservativeWithdrawn
William Cash20/10/2010StoneConservativeProposed
Graham Brady20/10/2010Altrincham and Sale WestConservativeSeconded
John Redwood20/10/2010WokinghamConservativeSeconded
Peter Lilley20/10/2010Hitchin and HarpendenConservativeSeconded
James Clappison20/10/2010HertsmereConservativeSeconded
Bernard Jenkin20/10/2010Harwich and North EssexConservativeSeconded
Zac Goldsmith20/10/2010Richmond ParkConservativeSigned
David Nuttall20/10/2010Bury NorthConservativeSigned
Bob Stewart20/10/2010BeckenhamConservativeSigned
Philip Davies20/10/2010ShipleyConservativeSigned
Douglas Carswell20/10/2010ClactonConservativeSigned
Brian Binley20/10/2010Northampton SouthConservativeSigned
John Whittingdale20/10/2010MaldonConservativeSigned
David Davis20/10/2010Haltemprice and HowdenConservativeSigned
Christopher Chope20/10/2010ChristchurchConservativeSigned
Edward Leigh20/10/2010GainsboroughConservativeSigned
Richard Shepherd20/10/2010Aldridge-BrownhillsConservativeSigned
Peter Bone20/10/2010WellingboroughConservativeSigned
Anne Main21/10/2010St AlbansConservativeSigned
Robert Halfon21/10/2010HarlowConservativeSigned
James Gray21/10/2010North WiltshireConservativeSigned
Greg Knight21/10/2010East YorkshireConservativeSigned
Laurence Robertson21/10/2010TewkesburyConservativeSigned
Martin Vickers25/10/2010CleethorpesConservativeSigned
Richard Drax25/10/2010South DorsetConservativeSigned
Andrew Rosindell26/10/2010RomfordConservativeSigned
Julian Lewis26/10/2010New Forest EastConservativeSigned
John Baron26/10/2010Basildon and BillericayConservativeSigned
Gordon Henderson26/10/2010Sittingbourne and SheppeyConservativeSigned
Tracey Crouch27/10/2010Chatham and AylesfordConservativeSigned
Roger Godsiff02/11/2010Birmingham, Hall GreenLabourSigned

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