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Save The Independent Living Fund

EDM number 1234 in 2013-14, proposed by Anne Begg on 31/03/2014.
Categorised under the topics of Benefits policy, Local government and Sickness, disability and carers' benefits.

That this House is deeply concerned by the plan to close, by June 2015, the Independent Living Fund (ILF) on which over 18,000 severely disabled people rely instead of being in residential care; questions the Government's rationale for local authorities taking over this funding given their higher overheads and squeezed budgets; notes that experts believe this financial pressure and loss of experienced ILF staff will mean current recipients will be placed in residential care or left at home without adequate care provision; further notes that many users will no longer be eligible for any local authority care funding because of tightening of eligibility criteria; is aware that the average cost of the ILF at

This motion has been signed by a total of 60 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Anne Begg31/03/2014Aberdeen SouthLabourProposed
Caroline Lucas31/03/2014Brighton, PavilionGreenSeconded
Elfyn Llwyd31/03/2014Dwyfor MeirionnyddPlaid CymruSeconded
Jeremy Corbyn31/03/2014Islington NorthLabourSeconded
John McDonnell31/03/2014Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSeconded
Mark Durkan31/03/2014FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySeconded
Jim Shannon01/04/2014StrangfordDUPSigned
Jim Dobbin01/04/2014Heywood and MiddletonLabourSigned
Dennis Skinner01/04/2014BolsoverLabourSigned
George Howarth01/04/2014KnowsleyLabourSigned
Margaret Ritchie01/04/2014South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Alan Meale01/04/2014MansfieldLabourSigned
Peter Bottomley01/04/2014Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Jonathan Edwards01/04/2014Carmarthen East and DinefwrPlaid CymruSigned
William McCrea02/04/2014South AntrimDUPSigned
Glenda Jackson02/04/2014Hampstead and KilburnLabourSigned
Martin Caton02/04/2014GowerLabourSigned
Ronnie Campbell02/04/2014Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
David Simpson02/04/2014Upper BannDUPSigned
Ian Lavery03/04/2014WansbeckLabourSigned
David Crausby03/04/2014Bolton North EastLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins03/04/2014Luton NorthLabourSigned
Paul Flynn07/04/2014Newport WestLabourSigned
Hugh Bayley07/04/2014York CentralLabourSigned
Mary Glindon07/04/2014North TynesideLabourSigned
Jim Dowd08/04/2014Lewisham West and PengeLabourSigned
Mike Hancock08/04/2014Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Katy Clark08/04/2014North Ayrshire and ArranLabourSigned
Lady Hermon08/04/2014North DownIndependentSigned
Mike Gapes08/04/2014Ilford SouthLabourSigned
Bob Ainsworth08/04/2014Coventry North EastLabourSigned
Grahame Morris09/04/2014EasingtonLabourSigned
Steve Rotheram09/04/2014Liverpool, WaltonLabourSigned
Jim Cunningham09/04/2014Coventry SouthLabourSigned
Sandra Osborne09/04/2014Ayr, Carrick and CumnockLabourSigned
Ian Mearns09/04/2014GatesheadLabourSigned
John Leech10/04/2014Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Yasmin Qureshi10/04/2014Bolton South EastLabourSigned
Alasdair McDonnell10/04/2014Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Gerry Sutcliffe28/04/2014Bradford SouthLabourSigned
David Winnick28/04/2014Walsall NorthLabourSigned
Jim McGovern28/04/2014Dundee WestLabourSigned
Hywel Francis28/04/2014AberavonLabourSigned
Stephen Hepburn28/04/2014JarrowLabourSigned
John Robertson28/04/2014Glasgow North WestLabourSigned
Tom Harris28/04/2014Glasgow SouthLabourSigned
Frank Doran29/04/2014Aberdeen NorthLabourSigned
Ann Clwyd30/04/2014Cynon ValleyLabourSigned
Fiona O'Donnell30/04/2014East LothianLabourSigned
Teresa Pearce01/05/2014Erith and ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Kate Hoey01/05/2014VauxhallLabourSigned
David Anderson06/05/2014BlaydonLabourSigned
Rosie Cooper06/05/2014West LancashireLabourSigned
Jimmy Hood06/05/2014Lanark and Hamilton EastLabourSigned
Diane Abbott06/05/2014Hackney North and Stoke NewingtonLabourSigned
Menzies Campbell08/05/2014North East FifeLiberal DemocratSigned
Joan Walley12/05/2014Stoke-on-Trent NorthLabourSigned
Roger Godsiff12/05/2014Birmingham, Hall GreenLabourSigned
David Heyes13/05/2014Ashton-under-LyneLabourSigned
Lindsay Roy13/05/2014GlenrothesLabourSigned

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