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<id>16795</id>
<session>1998-99</session>
<number>921A1</number>
<title>Pension Increase In April 2000;amdt. Line 2:</title>
<proposer id="10197">Frank Field</proposer>
<date>1999-10-20</date>
<text>at end add 'and believes the Government should help the poorest pensioners by raising the state retirement pension by Ãº15 for those over 80 at a cost of Ãº1.1 billion, which could be funded from the Ãº5.9 billion excess surplus currently in the National Insurance accounts.'.</text>
<topics>
</topics>
<signatures>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10197">Frank Field</mp>
		<date>1999-10-20</date>
		<type>Proposed</type>
		<constituency>Birkenhead</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10288">Kelvin Hopkins</mp>
		<date>1999-10-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Luton North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10144">John Cummings</mp>
		<date>1999-10-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Easington</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10635">Dafydd Wigley</mp>
		<date>1999-10-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Caernarfon</constituency>
		<party>Plaid Cymru</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10541">Alan Simpson</mp>
		<date>1999-10-25</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Nottingham South</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10230">Norman Godman</mp>
		<date>1999-10-25</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Greenock &amp; Inverclyde</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10137">Jim Cousins</mp>
		<date>1999-10-26</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Newcastle upon Tyne Central</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10639">Alan Williams</mp>
		<date>1999-10-27</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Swansea West</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10623">Robert Wareing</mp>
		<date>1999-10-27</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Liverpool, West Derby</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10481">Kerry Pollard</mp>
		<date>1999-10-27</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>St Albans</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10138">Tom Cox</mp>
		<date>1999-11-01</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Tooting</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10428">Alan Meale</mp>
		<date>1999-11-02</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Mansfield</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10089">Ronnie Campbell</mp>
		<date>1999-11-02</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Blyth Valley</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10114">Eric Clarke</mp>
		<date>1999-11-02</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Midlothian</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10203">Paul Flynn</mp>
		<date>1999-11-02</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Newport West</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10373">Peter Luff</mp>
		<date>1999-11-04</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Mid Worcestershire</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10001">Diane Abbott</mp>
		<date>1999-11-04</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hackney North &amp; Stoke Newington</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10021">John Austin</mp>
		<date>1999-11-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Erith &amp; Thamesmead</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
</signatures>
</edm>
