8620
1993-94
1464
TAXATION POLICY AND THE RAILWAY SIGNAL WORKERS' DISPUTE
Harry Cohen
1994-07-06
That this House considers it axiomatic that the Government's regressive income taxation policy benefits the highly paid, whilst its policy of imposing an unprecedently high rate of VAT, like the earlier poll tax, redistributes the taxation burden from the highly paid to the lower paid; notes that most United Kingdom citizens now pay approximately 45 per cent. of wages in one form of taxation or another, and can calculate that the 5.7 per cent. offer to the railway signal workers, which was withdrawn following the Government's veto, is worth less than 3 per cent. in real terms, and that nearly half of the 5.7 per cent. rise would have returned to the Treasury via taxation; notes that the 3 per cent. figure is consistent with the Government's pay guidelines; and therefore draws the inevitable conclusion that the Government's motives for inflicting misery on the travelling public is purely political malice.
Harry Cohen
1994-07-06
Proposed
Leyton
Ernie Ross
1994-07-07
Signed
Dundee West
Paul Flynn
1994-07-07
Signed
Newport West
John Evans
1994-07-07
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St Helens North
Jim Dowd
1994-07-07
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Lewisham West
Ronnie Campbell
1994-07-07
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Blyth Valley
Bill Michie
1994-07-07
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Sheffield, Heeley
William McKelvey
1994-07-07
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Kilmarnock & Loudoun
John McAllion
1994-07-07
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Dundee East
Ken Livingstone
1994-07-07
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Brent East
Lynne Jones
1994-07-07
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Birmingham, Selly Oak
Eric Illsley
1994-07-07
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Barnsley Central
Dennis Skinner
1994-07-07
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Bolsover
Alan Simpson
1994-07-07
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Nottingham South
Jeremy Corbyn
1994-07-08
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Islington North
Harry Barnes
1994-07-08
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North East Derbyshire
Peter Hardy
1994-07-11
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Wentworth
Michael Connarty
1994-07-11
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Falkirk East
Janet Anderson
1994-07-11
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Rossendale & Darwen
Colin Pickthall
1994-07-12
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West Lancashire
Dennis Turner
1994-07-12
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Wolverhampton South East
Andrew Faulds
1994-07-12
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Warley East
Eddie Loyden
1994-07-12
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Liverpool, Garston
Martin Redmond
1994-07-12
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Don Valley
David Clelland
1994-07-12
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Tyne Bridge
Mike Watson
1994-07-13
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Glasgow Central
Robert Wareing
1994-07-13
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Liverpool, West Derby
Tony Banks
1994-07-13
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Newham North West
Mike Hall
1994-07-13
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Warrington South
Eric Clarke
1994-07-13
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Midlothian
Alan Meale
1994-07-13
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Mansfield
Alice Mahon
1994-07-14
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Halifax
Bill Etherington
1994-07-14
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Sunderland North
Max Madden
1994-07-18
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Bradford West
Jack Thompson
1994-07-19
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Wansbeck
Edward O'Hara
1994-07-20
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Knowsley South
Mike Gapes
1994-07-20
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Ilford South
John Gunnell
1994-07-20
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Leeds South and Morley
John Heppell
1994-07-21
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Nottingham East