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Child Benefit

EDM number 208 in 1989-90, proposed by Ian Paisley on 14/12/1989.

That this House deplores the insensitive attitude of this Government to freeze child benefit for the third successive year; and calls upon the Government to review the whole child benefit scheme with a view to increasing it in line with inflation and children's needs.

This motion has been signed by a total of 25 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Ian Paisley14/12/1989North AntrimProposed
Harry Barnes18/12/1989North East DerbyshireSigned
Dafydd Wigley18/12/1989CaernarfonSigned
Peter Hardy19/12/1989WentworthSigned
David Knox19/12/1989Staffordshire MoorlandsSigned
David Lambie19/12/1989Cunninghame SouthSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe19/12/1989LeighSigned
Win Griffiths19/12/1989BridgendSigned
Tom Cox20/12/1989TootingSigned
Ronnie Fearn20/12/1989SouthportSigned
Jack Thompson21/12/1989WansbeckSigned
Jim Wallace21/12/1989Orkney & ShetlandSigned
Gwyneth Dunwoody08/01/1990Crewe & NantwichSigned
Peter Robinson11/01/1990Belfast EastSigned
Diane Abbott11/01/1990Hackney North & Stoke NewingtonSigned
John Home Robertson18/01/1990East LothianSigned
Tommy Graham18/01/1990Renfrew West and InverclydeSigned
Cecil Walker23/01/1990Belfast NorthSigned
Audrey Wise23/01/1990PrestonSigned
Jimmy Hood25/01/1990ClydesdaleSigned
George Howarth25/01/1990Knowsley NorthSigned
John McFall01/02/1990DumbartonSigned
George Galloway06/02/1990Glasgow HillheadSigned
Dale Campbell-Savours08/02/1990WorkingtonSigned
Peter Pike16/02/1990BurnleySigned

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