<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><edm>
<id>12302</id>
<session>1995-96</session>
<number>1147</number>
<title>Child Support Act Increased Benefit Penalty</title>
<proposer id="22641">Mildred Gordon</proposer>
<date>1996-07-10</date>
<text>That this House notes that, despite the fact that in about a quarter of new Child Support Agency cases the parent with care claims good cause for refusing to authorise the Agency to pressure the absent parent for maintenance, the Agency rejected 43 per cent. of those claims in the second quarter of 1995-96 and imposed a benefit penalty in 23 per cent. of these cases; notes nevertheless that the Government has increased the benefit penalty from 20 per cent of the income support personal allowance of the parent with care to 40 per cent for 156 weeks which can be extended, leaving a parent with one child Ãº60.14 a week on which to survive; and considers that this regulation will increase child poverty and render such families destitute and vulnerable to violence and should therefore be reversed.</text>
<topics>
</topics>
<signatures>
	<signature>
		<mp id="22641">Mildred Gordon</mp>
		<date>1996-07-10</date>
		<type>Proposed</type>
		<constituency>Bow and Poplar</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10649">Audrey Wise</mp>
		<date>1996-07-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Preston</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10026">Harry Barnes</mp>
		<date>1996-07-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North East Derbyshire</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10238">Tommy Graham</mp>
		<date>1996-07-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Renfrew West and Inverclyde</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10230">Norman Godman</mp>
		<date>1996-07-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Greenock and Port Glasgow</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10152">Tam Dalyell</mp>
		<date>1996-07-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Linlithgow</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10135">Jean Corston</mp>
		<date>1996-07-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bristol East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10133">Jeremy Corbyn</mp>
		<date>1996-07-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Islington North</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10123">Harry Cohen</mp>
		<date>1996-07-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Leyton</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10420">Michael Martin</mp>
		<date>1996-07-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Glasgow, Springburn</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="18287">Max Madden</mp>
		<date>1996-07-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bradford West</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10544">Dennis Skinner</mp>
		<date>1996-07-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bolsover</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="19152">Nigel Spearing</mp>
		<date>1996-07-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Newham South</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10285">Jimmy Hood</mp>
		<date>1996-07-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Clydesdale</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10323">Lynne Jones</mp>
		<date>1996-07-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Birmingham, Selly Oak</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10364">Ken Livingstone</mp>
		<date>1996-07-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Brent East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="18174">Eddie Loyden</mp>
		<date>1996-07-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Liverpool, Garston</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10224">Neil Gerrard</mp>
		<date>1996-07-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Walthamstow</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10144">John Cummings</mp>
		<date>1996-07-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Easington</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10432">Bill Michie</mp>
		<date>1996-07-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Sheffield, Heeley</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="18408">William McKelvey</mp>
		<date>1996-07-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Kilmarnock &amp; Loudoun</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10375">John McAllion</mp>
		<date>1996-07-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Dundee East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10407">Alice Mahon</mp>
		<date>1996-07-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Halifax</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="22067">Peter Hardy</mp>
		<date>1996-07-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wentworth</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10513">Ernie Ross</mp>
		<date>1996-07-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Dundee West</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="22117">Robert Parry</mp>
		<date>1996-07-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Liverpool, Riverside</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10025">Tony Banks</mp>
		<date>1996-07-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Newham North West</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10138">Tom Cox</mp>
		<date>1996-07-12</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Tooting</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10337">Piara S Khabra</mp>
		<date>1996-07-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ealing, Southall</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="18209">Liz Lynne</mp>
		<date>1996-07-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Rochdale</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10145">Lawrence Cunliffe</mp>
		<date>1996-07-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Leigh</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10189">Bill Etherington</mp>
		<date>1996-07-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Sunderland North</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10203">Paul Flynn</mp>
		<date>1996-07-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Newport West</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10233">Llin Golding</mp>
		<date>1996-07-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Newcastle-under-Lyme</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="16411">Mike Watson</mp>
		<date>1996-07-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Glasgow Central</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10128">Michael Connarty</mp>
		<date>1996-07-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Falkirk East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10478">Colin Pickthall</mp>
		<date>1996-07-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>West Lancashire</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10012">Janet Anderson</mp>
		<date>1996-07-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Rossendale &amp; Darwen</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10253">Mike Hall</mp>
		<date>1996-07-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Warrington South</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10215">Maria Fyfe</mp>
		<date>1996-07-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Glasgow, Maryhill</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10163">Terry Davis</mp>
		<date>1996-07-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Birmingham, Hodge Hill</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10114">Eric Clarke</mp>
		<date>1996-07-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Midlothian</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10462">Edward O'Hara</mp>
		<date>1996-07-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Knowsley South</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10428">Alan Meale</mp>
		<date>1996-07-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Mansfield</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10359">Terry Lewis</mp>
		<date>1996-07-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Worsley</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10510">Allan Rogers</mp>
		<date>1996-07-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Rhondda</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10324">Martyn Jones</mp>
		<date>1996-07-18</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Clwyd South West</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10157">Ian Davidson</mp>
		<date>1996-07-18</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Glasgow, Govan</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="22627">Martin Redmond</mp>
		<date>1996-07-19</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Don Valley</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10305">Eric Illsley</mp>
		<date>1996-07-23</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Barnsley Central</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="16879">James Callaghan</mp>
		<date>1996-07-23</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Heywood &amp; Middleton</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10635">Dafydd Wigley</mp>
		<date>1996-07-23</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Caernarfon</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10385">Eddie McGrady</mp>
		<date>1996-07-24</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>South Down</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10320">Ieuan Wyn Jones</mp>
		<date>1996-10-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ynys M</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10275">John Heppell</mp>
		<date>1996-10-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Nottingham East</constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
</signatures>
</edm>
