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Overseas Aid Budget

EDM number 1575 in 1994-95, proposed by George Foulkes on 02/11/1995.

That this House recognises and accepts this country's moral obligation to fight poverty and disadvantage wherever they occur; notes that one-fifth of the developing world's poor go to bed hungry every night, that one quarter have no access to clean drinking water and that one third lives in absolute poverty; notes that nonetheless Britain's overseas aid programme, currently 0.31 per cent. of gross national product and falling still further away from the UN target of 0.7 per cent., is under threat of additional cuts; believes that against such a backdrop of poverty and injustice, any cut to the overseas aid budget would be morally indefensible; and therefore calls on the Government to safeguard the overseas aid budget by rejecting calls for cuts in the forthcoming Financial Statement.

This motion has been signed by a total of 43 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
George Foulkes02/11/1995Carrick, Cumnock and Doon ValleyProposed
Tony Worthington02/11/1995Clydebank & MilngavieSigned
Mike Watson02/11/1995Glasgow CentralSigned
Paddy Tipping02/11/1995SherwoodSigned
Nick Ainger02/11/1995PembrokeSigned
John Hutton02/11/1995Barrow & FurnessSigned
Ken Livingstone03/11/1995Brent EastSigned
Harry Barnes03/11/1995North East DerbyshireSigned
Michael Connarty06/11/1995Falkirk EastSigned
Robin Corbett06/11/1995Birmingham, ErdingtonSigned
Jeremy Corbyn06/11/1995Islington NorthSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe06/11/1995LeighSigned
Terry Davis06/11/1995Birmingham, Hodge HillSigned
John Evans06/11/1995St Helens NorthSigned
Audrey Wise06/11/1995PrestonSigned
Michael Clapham06/11/1995Barnsley West & PenistoneSigned
Malcolm Chisholm06/11/1995Edinburgh LeithSigned
Keith Bradley06/11/1995Manchester, WithingtonSigned
Peter Pike06/11/1995BurnleySigned
Clive Soley06/11/1995HammersmithSigned
John Heppell06/11/1995Nottingham EastSigned
Keith Hill06/11/1995StreathamSigned
David Hinchliffe06/11/1995WakefieldSigned
Lynne Jones06/11/1995Birmingham, Selly OakSigned
Eddie Loyden06/11/1995Liverpool, GarstonSigned
Alex Carlile07/11/1995MontgomerySigned
Neil Gerrard07/11/1995WalthamstowSigned
Win Griffiths07/11/1995BridgendSigned
Mike Hall07/11/1995Warrington SouthSigned
Janet Anderson07/11/1995Rossendale & DarwenSigned
Gerry Steinberg07/11/1995Durham, City ofSigned
Jack Thompson07/11/1995WansbeckSigned
Jamie Cann07/11/1995IpswichSigned
Richard Burden07/11/1995Birmingham, NorthfieldSigned
Bill O'Brien07/11/1995NormantonSigned
Bill Michie07/11/1995Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Ian McCartney07/11/1995MakerfieldSigned
Denis MacShane07/11/1995RotherhamSigned
Piara S Khabra07/11/1995Ealing, SouthallSigned
Eric Illsley07/11/1995Barnsley CentralSigned
Simon Hughes07/11/1995Southwark and BermondseySigned
Peter Hardy07/11/1995WentworthSigned
Don Touhig07/11/1995IslwynSigned

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