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Citizens Advice Scotland Report

EDM number 405 in 2016-17, proposed by Ian Murray on 06/09/2016.
Categorised under the topics of Consumers, Financial services, Incomes and poverty and Utilities.

That this House welcomes the Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) report, Paying More to be Poor, which examines the causes and impacts of the poverty premium on low income consumers in Scotland; applauds CAS for its work drawing attention to this issue and highlighting the ways in which low income consumers pay more for essential goods and services; understands that such consumers are more likely to use more expensive payment methods, such as pre-payment energy meters and pay-as-you-go mobile telephones; believes that those consumers can also have high repayment burdens for credit and loans and that these costs can have negative physical and mental health effects; and further welcomes the commitment by CAS to working with interested stakeholders across the public, private and third sectors, and the UK and Scottish Governments, to tackle the poverty premium at its root.

This motion has been signed by a total of 26 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Ian Murray06/09/2016Edinburgh SouthLabourProposed
Alan Meale07/09/2016MansfieldLabourSeconded
Patrick Grady07/09/2016Glasgow NorthScottish National PartySeconded
Chris Stephens07/09/2016Glasgow South WestScottish National PartySeconded
Natalie McGarry08/09/2016Glasgow EastScottish National PartySeconded
Martyn Day08/09/2016Linlithgow and East FalkirkScottish National PartySeconded
Deidre Brock08/09/2016Edinburgh North and LeithScottish National PartySigned
Chris Law12/09/2016Dundee WestScottish National PartySigned
Phil Boswell12/09/2016Coatbridge, Chryston and BellshillScottish National PartySigned
Martin Docherty13/09/2016West DunbartonshireScottish National PartySigned
Alison Thewliss13/09/2016Glasgow CentralScottish National PartySigned
Alex Salmond15/09/2016Signed
Margaret Ferrier15/09/2016Rutherglen and Hamilton WestScottish National PartySigned
Marion Fellows15/09/2016Motherwell and WishawScottish National PartySigned
Brendan O'Hara15/09/2016Argyll and ButeScottish National PartySigned
Joanna Cherry10/10/2016Edinburgh South WestScottish National PartySigned
Stuart Donaldson10/10/2016West Aberdeenshire and KincardineScottish National PartySigned
Tasmina Sheikh10/10/2016Ochil and South PerthshireScottish National PartySigned
Angus MacNeil10/10/2016Na h-Eileanan an IarScottish National PartySigned
Drew Hendry10/10/2016Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and StrathspeyScottish National PartySigned
Owen Thompson10/10/2016MidlothianScottish National PartySigned
Hannah Bardell10/10/2016LivingstonScottish National PartySigned
Angela Crawley11/10/2016Lanark and Hamilton EastScottish National PartySigned
Corri Wilson12/10/2016Ayr, Carrick and CumnockScottish National PartySigned
John Nicolson24/10/2016East DunbartonshireScottish National PartySigned
Peter Grant01/11/2016GlenrothesScottish National PartySigned

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