<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><edm>
<id>44163</id>
<session>2012-13</session>
<number>31</number>
<title>VAT On Static Holiday Caravans</title>
<proposer id="11406">Graham Stuart</proposer>
<date>2012-05-09</date>
<text>That this House recognises that static caravans and their associated industries make a significant contribution to the UK economy; notes that more than three million trips were made in owned caravans in 2010, contributing 334 million to UK tourism particularly in rural and coastal areas; further notes that UK static caravan manufacturers make more than 95 per cent of those sold in the UK and that more than 7,000 people work directly for manufacturers and suppliers in addition to 26,500 employed directly by holiday parks; believes that the sale of static caravans is an important element in the survival of holiday parks; further notes with concern that the Government estimates the imposition of VAT on static holiday caravans will reduce demand by 30 per cent; is concerned that such a tax would have a devastating effect on jobs, UK tourism, investment and growth; and therefore calls on the Government to reject plans for a static holiday caravan VAT change.</text>
<topics>
	<topic>Owner occupation</topic>
	<topic>Taxation</topic>
</topics>
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		<mp id="11406">Graham Stuart</mp>
		<date>2012-05-09</date>
		<type>Proposed</type>
		<constituency>Beverley &amp; Holderness</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="11185">Alan Reid</mp>
		<date>2012-05-09</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Argyll &amp; Bute</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
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		<mp id="11026">Greg Knight</mp>
		<date>2012-05-09</date>
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		<constituency>East Yorkshire</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
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		<mp id="10162">David Davis</mp>
		<date>2012-05-09</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Haltemprice &amp; Howden</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
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		<mp id="11513">Daniel Rogerson</mp>
		<date>2012-05-09</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>North Cornwall</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="24832">Andrew Percy</mp>
		<date>2012-05-09</date>
		<type>Seconded</type>
		<constituency>Brigg and Goole</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
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		<mp id="24917">Pat Glass</mp>
		<date>2012-05-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North West Durham</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="24944">Craig Whittaker</mp>
		<date>2012-05-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Calder Valley</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="24814">Martin Vickers</mp>
		<date>2012-05-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Cleethorpes</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
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		<mp id="11647">Diana Johnson</mp>
		<date>2012-05-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Kingston upon Hull North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="11534">Natascha Engel</mp>
		<date>2012-05-09</date>
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		<party>Labour</party>
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		<date>2012-05-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
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		<party>Conservative</party>
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		<mp id="24828">Gordon Henderson</mp>
		<date>2012-05-09</date>
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		<mp id="24831">Lisa Nandy</mp>
		<date>2012-05-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wigan</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="24767">Karl Turner</mp>
		<date>2012-05-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
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		<mp id="24742">Alex Cunningham</mp>
		<date>2012-05-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Stockton North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="24905">Bill Esterson</mp>
		<date>2012-05-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Sefton Central</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="24735">Graeme Morrice</mp>
		<date>2012-05-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Livingston</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="25145">Iain McKenzie</mp>
		<date>2012-05-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Inverclyde</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="11558">Roberta Blackman-Woods</mp>
		<date>2012-05-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Durham, City of</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="11427">David Anderson</mp>
		<date>2012-05-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Blaydon</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10632">John Whittingdale</mp>
		<date>2012-05-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Maldon &amp; East Chelmsford</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
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		<mp id="10314">Alan Johnson</mp>
		<date>2012-05-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Kingston upon Hull West &amp; Hessle</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="13814">Naomi Long</mp>
		<date>2012-05-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Belfast East</constituency>
		<party>Alliance</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10383">John McDonnell</mp>
		<date>2012-05-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Hayes &amp; Harlington</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="10467">Sandra Osborne</mp>
		<date>2012-05-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ayr, Carrick &amp; Cumnock</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10780">Gregory Campbell</mp>
		<date>2012-05-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>East Londonderry</constituency>
		<party>DUP</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10096">Martin Caton</mp>
		<date>2012-05-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Gower</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10116">Tom Clarke</mp>
		<date>2012-05-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Coatbridge, Chryston &amp; Bellshill</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="10143">John Cryer</mp>
		<date>2012-05-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Leyton and Wanstead</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10174">Frank Doran</mp>
		<date>2012-05-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Aberdeen North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10219">Mike Gapes</mp>
		<date>2012-05-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ilford South</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10222">Andrew George</mp>
		<date>2012-05-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>St Ives</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10045">Clive Betts</mp>
		<date>2012-05-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Sheffield, Attercliffe</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10057">Peter Bottomley</mp>
		<date>2012-05-09</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Worthing West</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="24927">Mary Glindon</mp>
		<date>2012-05-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North Tyneside</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="24858">Simon Reevell</mp>
		<date>2012-05-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Dewsbury</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10857">Nigel Dodds</mp>
		<date>2012-05-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Belfast North</constituency>
		<party>DUP</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10147">Jim Cunningham</mp>
		<date>2012-05-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Coventry South</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10428">Alan Meale</mp>
		<date>2012-05-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Mansfield</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10415">Gordon Marsden</mp>
		<date>2012-05-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Blackpool South</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10544">Dennis Skinner</mp>
		<date>2012-05-10</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bolsover</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="24935">Steve Rotheram</mp>
		<date>2012-05-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Liverpool, Walton</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11489">Mark Williams</mp>
		<date>2012-05-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ceredigion</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="11692">Nia Griffith</mp>
		<date>2012-05-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Llanelli</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10602">David Tredinnick</mp>
		<date>2012-05-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Bosworth</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10367">Tony Lloyd</mp>
		<date>2012-05-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Manchester Central</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10288">Kelvin Hopkins</mp>
		<date>2012-05-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Luton North</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="13856">Margaret Ritchie</mp>
		<date>2012-05-14</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>South Down</constituency>
		<party>Social Democratic and Labour Party</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="24715">Grahame Morris</mp>
		<date>2012-05-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Easington</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="24743">Jonathan Edwards</mp>
		<date>2012-05-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Carmarthen East and Dinefwr</constituency>
		<party>Plaid Cymru</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="24745">Marcus Jones</mp>
		<date>2012-05-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Nuneaton</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="14142">Lindsay Roy</mp>
		<date>2012-05-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Glenrothes</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10240">James Gray</mp>
		<date>2012-05-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North Wiltshire</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="11589">Mark Durkan</mp>
		<date>2012-05-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Foyle</constituency>
		<party>Social Democratic and Labour Party</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="24910">Caroline Lucas</mp>
		<date>2012-05-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Brighton, Pavilion</constituency>
		<party>Green</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="11892">David Simpson</mp>
		<date>2012-05-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Upper Bann</constituency>
		<party>DUP</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="13864">Jim Shannon</mp>
		<date>2012-05-15</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Strangford</constituency>
		<party>DUP</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="24966">David Morris</mp>
		<date>2012-05-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Morecambe and Lunesdale</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="24963">Ian Lavery</mp>
		<date>2012-05-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Wansbeck</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="11798">Anne Main</mp>
		<date>2012-05-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>St Albans</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10172">Jeffrey M Donaldson</mp>
		<date>2012-05-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Lagan Valley</constituency>
		<party>DUP</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10170">Jim Dobbin</mp>
		<date>2012-05-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Heywood &amp; Middleton</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="13852">Ian Paisley Jnr</mp>
		<date>2012-05-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>North Antrim</constituency>
		<party>DUP</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="11148">Albert Owen</mp>
		<date>2012-05-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Ynys M</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
	</signature>
	<signature>
		<mp id="10436">Austin Mitchell</mp>
		<date>2012-05-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Great Grimsby</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10679">William McCrea</mp>
		<date>2012-05-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>South Antrim</constituency>
		<party>DUP</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10368">Elfyn Llwyd</mp>
		<date>2012-05-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Meirionnydd Nant Conwy</constituency>
		<party>Plaid Cymru</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="10259">David Hanson</mp>
		<date>2012-05-16</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Delyn</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="24853">Julian Sturdy</mp>
		<date>2012-05-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>York Outer</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="24779">Neil Parish</mp>
		<date>2012-05-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Tiverton and Honiton</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
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	<signature>
		<mp id="11312">Michael Weir</mp>
		<date>2012-05-17</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Angus</constituency>
		<party>Scottish National Party</party>
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		<mp id="10754">Annette Brooke</mp>
		<date>2012-05-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Mid Dorset &amp; North Poole</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
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		<mp id="10088">Menzies Campbell</mp>
		<date>2012-05-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Fife North East</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
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		<mp id="10203">Paul Flynn</mp>
		<date>2012-05-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Newport West</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="11267">Mark Tami</mp>
		<date>2012-05-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Alyn &amp; Deeside</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<mp id="11621">Douglas Carswell</mp>
		<date>2012-05-21</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Harwich</constituency>
		<party>Conservative</party>
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		<mp id="10834">Tony Cunningham</mp>
		<date>2012-05-22</date>
		<type>Signed</type>
		<constituency>Workington</constituency>
		<party>Labour</party>
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		<date>2012-05-23</date>
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		<constituency>Torbay</constituency>
		<party>Liberal Democrat</party>
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