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Campaign To Save The Independent Living Fund

EDM number 655 in 2014-15, proposed by John McDonnell on 18/12/2014.
Categorised under the topics of Benefits policy and Sickness, disability and carers' benefits.

That this House commends and supports campaigners in their ongoing fight to save the Independent Living Fund (ILF) on which nearly 18,000 disabled people with high-support needs rely to live with choice and control in life instead of going into residential care; notes the failure of the High Court case taken by two ILF recipients to stop the Government closing the ILF in June 2015, while noting the judge's comment that the Minister was made fully aware of the inevitable and considerable adverse effect that closure would have on disabled people; further notes that the judge declined to rule on whether the closure may put the UK in breach of its international obligations to advance disabled people's rights to independent living and equality of opportunity under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; and reminds all parliamentarians that, as part of Operation Disabled Vote, manifestos and pledges will be measured against the precepts of international human rights as well as of social justice by 12.2 million disabled voters.

This motion has been signed by a total of 52 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
John McDonnell18/12/2014Hayes and HarlingtonLabourProposed
Jeremy Corbyn18/12/2014Islington NorthLabourSeconded
Peter Bottomley05/01/2015Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Dennis Skinner05/01/2015BolsoverLabourSeconded
Mark Durkan05/01/2015FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySeconded
Caroline Lucas05/01/2015Brighton, PavilionGreenSeconded
Liz McInnes05/01/2015Heywood and MiddletonLabourSigned
Steve Rotheram05/01/2015Liverpool, WaltonLabourSigned
Anne Begg05/01/2015Aberdeen SouthLabourSigned
Margaret Ritchie05/01/2015South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
David Crausby06/01/2015Bolton North EastLabourSigned
Virendra Sharma06/01/2015Ealing, SouthallLabourSigned
Paul Flynn06/01/2015Newport WestLabourSigned
Martin Caton06/01/2015GowerLabourSigned
Jonathan Edwards06/01/2015Carmarthen East and DinefwrPlaid CymruSigned
Hywel Williams06/01/2015ArfonPlaid CymruSigned
Jim Shannon06/01/2015StrangfordDUPSigned
Andrew George06/01/2015St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Meale06/01/2015MansfieldLabourSigned
Diane Abbott06/01/2015Hackney North and Stoke NewingtonLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins06/01/2015Luton NorthLabourSigned
Jim Cunningham07/01/2015Coventry SouthLabourSigned
Jim Sheridan07/01/2015Paisley and Renfrewshire NorthLabourSigned
Mike Hancock07/01/2015Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Siobhain McDonagh07/01/2015Mitcham and MordenLabourSigned
Grahame Morris07/01/2015EasingtonLabourSigned
Lady Hermon07/01/2015North DownIndependentSigned
Ronnie Campbell07/01/2015Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Mark Williams08/01/2015CeredigionLiberal DemocratSigned
Chris Williamson08/01/2015Derby NorthLabourSigned
Jessica Morden08/01/2015Newport EastLabourSigned
Mary Glindon08/01/2015North TynesideLabourSigned
David Blunkett09/01/2015Sheffield, Brightside and HillsboroughLabourSigned
David Heyes09/01/2015Ashton-under-LyneLabourSigned
Mark Lazarowicz12/01/2015Edinburgh North and LeithLabourSigned
David Anderson12/01/2015BlaydonLabourSigned
Hugh Bayley12/01/2015York CentralLabourSigned
Keith Vaz12/01/2015Leicester EastLabourSigned
Paul Farrelly13/01/2015Newcastle-under-LymeLabourSigned
Fabian Hamilton13/01/2015Leeds North EastLabourSigned
Katy Clark14/01/2015North Ayrshire and ArranLabourSigned
Paul Murphy14/01/2015TorfaenLabourSigned
Roger Godsiff20/01/2015Birmingham, Hall GreenLabourSigned
Teresa Pearce22/01/2015Erith and ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Yasmin Qureshi26/01/2015Bolton South EastLabourSigned
Geoffrey Robinson27/01/2015Coventry North WestLabourSigned
David Lammy28/01/2015TottenhamLabourSigned
Michael Meacher29/01/2015Oldham West and RoytonLabourSigned
Jim McGovern11/02/2015Dundee WestLabourSigned
George Galloway11/02/2015Bradford WestRespectSigned
Graeme Morrice18/03/2015LivingstonLabourSigned
Ian Lavery25/03/2015WansbeckLabourSigned

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