<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><edm>
<id>16553</id>
<session>1998-99</session>
<number>707</number>
<title>Lottery Funding For Village Halls</title>
<proposer id="10466">Diana Organ</proposer>
<date>1999-06-09</date>
<text>That this House congratulates Action with the Communities in Rural England for the excellent survey it has completed on village halls which highlights the pivotal role such halls play in rural community life but also shows that many of these facilities lack basic provision for the disabled, are old buildings of which 64 per cent. are in need of improvements or major repairs in the next five years and the difficulty that village halls encounter gaining funds from the Lottery as their applications often fall between the stools of six different Lottery distributors; and calls upon the Department of Culture, Media and Sport to get together with the Lottery boards to develop a joint funding programme not just for village halls but community centres and other similar community buildings so that these facilities can meet the needs of all of their communities.</text>
<topics>
</topics>
<signatures>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10466">Diana Organ</mp>
		<date>1999-06-09</date>
		<type>Proposed</type>
		<constituency>Forest of Dean</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10177">David Drew</mp>
		<date>1999-06-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Stroud</constituency>
		<party>Labour Co-operative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10229">Linda Gilroy</mp>
		<date>1999-06-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Plymouth, Sutton</constituency>
		<party>Labour Co-operative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10017">Candy Atherton</mp>
		<date>1999-06-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Falmouth &amp; Camborne</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10018">Charlotte Atkins</mp>
		<date>1999-06-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Staffordshire Moorlands</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10049">Bob Blizzard</mp>
		<date>1999-06-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Waveney</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10598">Mark Todd</mp>
		<date>1999-06-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>South Derbyshire</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10625">Dave Watts</mp>
		<date>1999-06-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>St Helens North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10640">Betty Williams</mp>
		<date>1999-06-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Conwy</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10164">Hilton Dawson</mp>
		<date>1999-06-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Lancaster &amp; Wyre</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10112">Paul Clark</mp>
		<date>1999-06-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Gillingham</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10081">Christine Butler</mp>
		<date>1999-06-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Castle Point</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10442">Julie Morgan</mp>
		<date>1999-06-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Cardiff North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10472">Nick Palmer</mp>
		<date>1999-06-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Broxtowe</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10288">Kelvin Hopkins</mp>
		<date>1999-06-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Luton North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10302">Alan Hurst</mp>
		<date>1999-06-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Braintree</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10350">Jackie Lawrence</mp>
		<date>1999-06-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Preseli Pembrokeshire</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10356">Tom Levitt</mp>
		<date>1999-06-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>High Peak</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10437">Laura Moffatt</mp>
		<date>1999-06-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Crawley</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10060">Peter Bradley</mp>
		<date>1999-06-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wrekin, The</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10142">Ann Cryer</mp>
		<date>1999-06-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Keighley</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10046">Liz Blackman</mp>
		<date>1999-06-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Erewash</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10145">Lawrence Cunliffe</mp>
		<date>1999-06-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Leigh</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10463">Bill Olner</mp>
		<date>1999-06-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Nuneaton</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10390">Shona McIsaac</mp>
		<date>1999-06-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Cleethorpes</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10522">Christine Russell</mp>
		<date>1999-06-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Chester, City of</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10480">James Plaskitt</mp>
		<date>1999-06-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Warwick &amp; Leamington</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10657">Derek Wyatt</mp>
		<date>1999-06-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Sittingbourne &amp; Sheppey</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10653">Tony Worthington</mp>
		<date>1999-06-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Clydebank &amp; Milngavie</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10198">Mark Fisher</mp>
		<date>1999-06-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Stoke-on-Trent Central</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10464">Martin O'Neill</mp>
		<date>1999-06-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ochil</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10432">Bill Michie</mp>
		<date>1999-06-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Sheffield, Heeley</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10346">Ashok Kumar</mp>
		<date>1999-06-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Middlesbrough South &amp; East Cleveland</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10340">Andy King</mp>
		<date>1999-06-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Rugby &amp; Kenilworth</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10323">Lynne Jones</mp>
		<date>1999-06-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Birmingham, Selly Oak</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10295">Lindsay Hoyle</mp>
		<date>1999-06-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Chorley</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10287">Phil Hope</mp>
		<date>1999-06-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Corby</constituency>
		<party>Labour Co-operative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10541">Alan Simpson</mp>
		<date>1999-06-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Nottingham South</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10210">Michael Jabez Foster</mp>
		<date>1999-06-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hastings &amp; Rye</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10230">Norman Godman</mp>
		<date>1999-06-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Greenock &amp; Inverclyde</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10026">Harry Barnes</mp>
		<date>1999-06-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North East Derbyshire</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10626">Steve Webb</mp>
		<date>1999-06-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Northavon</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10144">John Cummings</mp>
		<date>1999-06-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Easington</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10133">Jeremy Corbyn</mp>
		<date>1999-06-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Islington North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10416">Paul Marsden</mp>
		<date>1999-06-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Shrewsbury &amp; Atcham</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10544">Dennis Skinner</mp>
		<date>1999-06-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bolsover</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10491">Gwyn Prosser</mp>
		<date>1999-06-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Dover</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10245">Nigel Griffiths</mp>
		<date>1999-06-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Edinburgh South</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10568">David Stewart</mp>
		<date>1999-06-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10586">David Taylor</mp>
		<date>1999-06-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North West Leicestershire</constituency>
		<party>Labour Co-operative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10612">Paul Tyler</mp>
		<date>1999-06-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North Cornwall</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10652">Phil Woolas</mp>
		<date>1999-06-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Oldham East &amp; Saddleworth</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10033">Roy Beggs</mp>
		<date>1999-06-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>East Antrim</constituency>
		<party>UUP</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10105">Michael Clapham</mp>
		<date>1999-06-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Barnsley West &amp; Penistone</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10383">John McDonnell</mp>
		<date>1999-06-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hayes &amp; Harlington</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10338">David Kidney</mp>
		<date>1999-06-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Stafford</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10273">Ivan Henderson</mp>
		<date>1999-06-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Harwich</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10530">Phil Sawford</mp>
		<date>1999-06-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Kettering</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10341">Oona King</mp>
		<date>1999-06-18</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bethnal Green &amp; Bow</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10138">Tom Cox</mp>
		<date>1999-06-18</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Tooting</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10655">Anthony D Wright</mp>
		<date>1999-06-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Great Yarmouth</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10317">Barry Jones</mp>
		<date>1999-06-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Alyn &amp; Deeside</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10650">Mike Wood</mp>
		<date>1999-06-22</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Batley &amp; Spen</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10043">Roger Berry</mp>
		<date>1999-06-22</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Kingswood</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10016">Joe Ashton</mp>
		<date>1999-06-22</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bassetlaw</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10222">Andrew George</mp>
		<date>1999-06-22</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>St Ives</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10215">Maria Fyfe</mp>
		<date>1999-06-22</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Glasgow, Maryhill</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10207">Derek Foster</mp>
		<date>1999-06-22</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bishop Auckland</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10152">Tam Dalyell</mp>
		<date>1999-06-22</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Linlithgow</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10324">Martyn Jones</mp>
		<date>1999-06-22</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Clwyd South</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10318">Fiona Jones</mp>
		<date>1999-06-22</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Newark</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10534">Barry Sheerman</mp>
		<date>1999-06-22</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Huddersfield</constituency>
		<party>Labour Co-operative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10487">Gordon Prentice</mp>
		<date>1999-06-22</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Pendle</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10585">Dari Taylor</mp>
		<date>1999-06-23</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Stockton South</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10070">Russell Brown</mp>
		<date>1999-06-23</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Dumfries</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10467">Sandra Osborne</mp>
		<date>1999-06-23</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ayr</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10407">Alice Mahon</mp>
		<date>1999-06-23</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Halifax</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10353">David Lepper</mp>
		<date>1999-06-23</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Brighton, Pavilion</constituency>
		<party>Labour Co-operative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10166">Janet Dean</mp>
		<date>1999-06-24</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Burton</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10147">Jim Cunningham</mp>
		<date>1999-06-24</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Coventry South</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10347">Stephen Ladyman</mp>
		<date>1999-06-24</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>South Thanet</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10546">Angela Smith</mp>
		<date>1999-06-24</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Basildon</constituency>
		<party>Labour Co-operative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10261">Evan Harris</mp>
		<date>1999-06-25</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Oxford West &amp; Abingdon</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10578">Andrew Stunell</mp>
		<date>1999-06-25</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hazel Grove</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10526">Martin Salter</mp>
		<date>1999-06-28</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Reading West</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10189">Bill Etherington</mp>
		<date>1999-06-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Sunderland North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10343">Tess Kingham</mp>
		<date>1999-06-30</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Gloucester</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10497">Syd Rapson</mp>
		<date>1999-07-01</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Portsmouth North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10510">Allan Rogers</mp>
		<date>1999-07-01</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Rhondda</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10136">Brian Cotter</mp>
		<date>1999-07-01</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Weston-Super-Mare</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10200">Lorna Fitzsimons</mp>
		<date>1999-07-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Rochdale</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10203">Paul Flynn</mp>
		<date>1999-07-05</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Newport West</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10436">Austin Mitchell</mp>
		<date>1999-07-06</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Great Grimsby</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10305">Eric Illsley</mp>
		<date>1999-07-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Barnsley Central</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10170">Jim Dobbin</mp>
		<date>1999-07-07</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Heywood &amp; Middleton</constituency>
		<party>Labour Co-operative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10595">William Thompson</mp>
		<date>1999-07-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>West Tyrone</constituency>
		<party>UUP</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10629">Brian White</mp>
		<date>1999-07-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North East Milton Keynes</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10654">Jimmy Wray</mp>
		<date>1999-07-08</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Glasgow, Baillieston</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10616">Rudi Vis</mp>
		<date>1999-07-12</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Finchley &amp; Golders Green</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10462">Edward O'Hara</mp>
		<date>1999-07-12</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Knowsley South</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10479">Peter Pike</mp>
		<date>1999-07-12</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Burnley</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10262">Nick Harvey</mp>
		<date>1999-07-13</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North Devon</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10044">Harold Best</mp>
		<date>1999-07-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Leeds North West</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="10451">Chris Mullin</mp>
		<date></date>
		<type>Withdrawn</type>
		<constituency></constituency>
		<party></party>
	</signature>
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