<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><edm>
<id>17491</id>
<session>1998-99</session>
<number>1</number>
<title>Guaranteed Minimum Pension Income</title>
<proposer id="10203">Paul Flynn</proposer>
<date>1998-11-24</date>
<text>That this House enthusiastically supports the Government's proposal for a Ãº75 guaranteed minimum income for pensioners; notes that about a million pensioners entitled to income support do not receive it; and urges that the guaranteed minimum should be implemented for all by raising the basic pension to Ãº75 per week in 1999 without a means test.</text>
<topics>
</topics>
<signatures>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10203">Paul Flynn</mp>
		<date>1998-11-24</date>
		<type>Proposed</type>
		<constituency>Newport West</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10487">Gordon Prentice</mp>
		<date>1998-11-24</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Pendle</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10353">David Lepper</mp>
		<date>1998-11-24</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Brighton, Pavilion</constituency>
		<party>Labour Co-operative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10049">Bob Blizzard</mp>
		<date>1998-11-25</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Waveney</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10021">John Austin</mp>
		<date>1998-11-25</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Erith &amp; Thamesmead</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10170">Jim Dobbin</mp>
		<date>1998-11-25</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Heywood &amp; Middleton</constituency>
		<party>Labour Co-operative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10105">Michael Clapham</mp>
		<date>1998-11-25</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Barnsley West &amp; Penistone</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10305">Eric Illsley</mp>
		<date>1998-11-25</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Barnsley Central</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10657">Derek Wyatt</mp>
		<date>1998-11-26</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Sittingbourne &amp; Sheppey</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10616">Rudi Vis</mp>
		<date>1998-11-26</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Finchley &amp; Golders Green</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10608">Desmond Turner</mp>
		<date>1998-11-26</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Brighton, Kemptown</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10184">Huw Edwards</mp>
		<date>1998-11-26</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Monmouth</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10138">Tom Cox</mp>
		<date>1998-11-26</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Tooting</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10096">Martin Caton</mp>
		<date>1998-11-26</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Gower</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10415">Gordon Marsden</mp>
		<date>1998-11-26</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Blackpool South</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10141">David Crausby</mp>
		<date>1998-11-27</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bolton North East</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10133">Jeremy Corbyn</mp>
		<date>1998-11-27</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Islington North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10541">Alan Simpson</mp>
		<date>1998-11-27</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Nottingham South</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10635">Dafydd Wigley</mp>
		<date>1998-11-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Caernarfon</constituency>
		<party>Plaid Cymru</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10026">Harry Barnes</mp>
		<date>1998-11-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North East Derbyshire</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10230">Norman Godman</mp>
		<date>1998-11-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Greenock &amp; Inverclyde</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10145">Lawrence Cunliffe</mp>
		<date>1998-11-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Leigh</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10081">Christine Butler</mp>
		<date>1998-11-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Castle Point</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10403">Tony McWalter</mp>
		<date>1998-11-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hemel Hempstead</constituency>
		<party>Labour Co-operative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10375">John McAllion</mp>
		<date>1998-11-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Dundee East</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10288">Kelvin Hopkins</mp>
		<date>1998-11-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Luton North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10586">David Taylor</mp>
		<date>1998-12-01</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North West Leicestershire</constituency>
		<party>Labour Co-operative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10566">Gerry Steinberg</mp>
		<date>1998-12-01</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Durham, City of</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10070">Russell Brown</mp>
		<date>1998-12-01</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Dumfries</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10364">Ken Livingstone</mp>
		<date>1998-12-01</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Brent East</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10530">Phil Sawford</mp>
		<date>1998-12-01</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Kettering</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10142">Ann Cryer</mp>
		<date>1998-12-02</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Keighley</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10143">John Cryer</mp>
		<date>1998-12-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hornchurch</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10351">Bob Laxton</mp>
		<date>1998-12-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Derby North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10189">Bill Etherington</mp>
		<date>1998-12-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Sunderland North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10035">Martin Bell</mp>
		<date>1998-12-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Tatton</constituency>
		<party>Independent</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10043">Roger Berry</mp>
		<date>1998-12-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Kingswood</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10163">Terry Davis</mp>
		<date>1998-12-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Birmingham, Hodge Hill</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10088">Menzies Campbell</mp>
		<date>1998-12-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Fife North East</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10544">Dennis Skinner</mp>
		<date>1998-12-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bolsover</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10481">Kerry Pollard</mp>
		<date>1998-12-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>St Albans</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10533">Jonathan R Shaw</mp>
		<date>1998-12-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Chatham &amp; Aylesford</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10092">Jamie Cann</mp>
		<date>1998-12-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ipswich</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10196">Ronnie Fearn</mp>
		<date>1998-12-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Southport</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10044">Harold Best</mp>
		<date>1999-01-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Leeds North West</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10623">Robert Wareing</mp>
		<date>1999-01-18</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Liverpool, West Derby</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10543">Marsha Singh</mp>
		<date>1999-01-19</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bradford West</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10466">Diana Organ</mp>
		<date>1999-01-20</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Forest of Dean</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10570">Paul Stinchcombe</mp>
		<date>1999-01-26</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wellingborough</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10323">Lynne Jones</mp>
		<date>1999-01-27</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Birmingham, Selly Oak</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10147">Jim Cunningham</mp>
		<date>1999-02-01</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Coventry South</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10343">Tess Kingham</mp>
		<date>1999-02-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Gloucester</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10399">Kevin McNamara</mp>
		<date>1999-02-22</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Kingston upon Hull North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10273">Ivan Henderson</mp>
		<date>1999-02-23</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Harwich</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10066">Colin Breed</mp>
		<date>1999-02-23</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>South East Cornwall</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10650">Mike Wood</mp>
		<date>1999-02-23</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Batley &amp; Spen</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10436">Austin Mitchell</mp>
		<date>1999-02-24</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Great Grimsby</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10368">Elfyn Llwyd</mp>
		<date>1999-02-25</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Meirionnydd Nant Conwy</constituency>
		<party>Plaid Cymru</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10380">Robert McCartney</mp>
		<date>1999-03-03</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North Down</constituency>
		<party>UKUP</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10462">Edward O'Hara</mp>
		<date>1999-03-03</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Knowsley South</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10295">Lindsay Hoyle</mp>
		<date>1999-03-04</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Chorley</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10649">Audrey Wise</mp>
		<date>1999-03-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Preston</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10383">John McDonnell</mp>
		<date>1999-03-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hayes &amp; Harlington</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10418">Jim Marshall</mp>
		<date>1999-03-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Leicester South</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10639">Alan Williams</mp>
		<date>1999-03-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Swansea West</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10198">Mark Fisher</mp>
		<date>1999-03-12</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Stoke-on-Trent Central</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10619">Joan Walley</mp>
		<date>1999-03-29</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Stoke-on-Trent North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10154">Keith Darvill</mp>
		<date>1999-04-20</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Upminster</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10164">Hilton Dawson</mp>
		<date>1999-05-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Lancaster &amp; Wyre</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10258">Mike Hancock</mp>
		<date>1999-05-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Portsmouth South</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10084">Vincent Cable</mp>
		<date>1999-05-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Twickenham</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10037">Tony Benn</mp>
		<date>1999-05-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Chesterfield</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10001">Diane Abbott</mp>
		<date>1999-05-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hackney North &amp; Stoke Newington</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10235">Eileen Gordon</mp>
		<date>1999-05-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Romford</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10100">David Chaytor</mp>
		<date>1999-05-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bury North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10432">Bill Michie</mp>
		<date>1999-05-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Sheffield, Heeley</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10378">Chris McCafferty</mp>
		<date>1999-05-13</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Calder Valley</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10080">Paul Burstow</mp>
		<date>1999-05-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Sutton &amp; Cheam</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10215">Maria Fyfe</mp>
		<date>1999-05-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Glasgow, Maryhill</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10521">Bob Russell</mp>
		<date>1999-05-18</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Colchester</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10157">Ian Davidson</mp>
		<date>1999-05-20</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Glasgow, Pollok</constituency>
		<party>Labour Co-operative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10595">William Thompson</mp>
		<date>1999-06-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>West Tyrone</constituency>
		<party>UUP</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10304">Brian Iddon</mp>
		<date>1999-06-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bolton South East</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10532">Brian Sedgemore</mp>
		<date>1999-06-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hackney South &amp; Shoreditch</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10393">Andrew MacKinlay</mp>
		<date>1999-06-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Thurrock</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10359">Terry Lewis</mp>
		<date>1999-06-11</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Worsley</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10033">Roy Beggs</mp>
		<date>1999-06-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>East Antrim</constituency>
		<party>UUP</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10621">Claire Ward</mp>
		<date>1999-06-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Watford</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10546">Angela Smith</mp>
		<date>1999-06-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Basildon</constituency>
		<party>Labour Co-operative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10300">John Hume</mp>
		<date>1999-06-22</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Foyle</constituency>
		<party>Social Democratic and Labour Party</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10172">Jeffrey M Donaldson</mp>
		<date>1999-06-23</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Lagan Valley</constituency>
		<party>UUP</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10321">Jenny Jones</mp>
		<date>1999-06-29</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wolverhampton South West</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10452">Denis Murphy</mp>
		<date>1999-06-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wansbeck</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10491">Gwyn Prosser</mp>
		<date>1999-07-12</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Dover</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10117">Tony Clarke</mp>
		<date>1999-07-27</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Northampton South</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10102">Malcolm Chisholm</mp>
		<date>1999-10-19</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Edinburgh North &amp; Leith</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10551">Llew Smith</mp>
		<date>1999-10-20</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Blaenau Gwent</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10496">Bill Rammell</mp>
		<date>1999-11-03</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Harlow</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10573">Gavin Strang</mp>
		<date>1999-11-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Edinburgh East &amp; Musselburgh</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10417">David Marshall</mp>
		<date>1999-11-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Glasgow, Shettleston</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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