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VAT On Books

EDM number 2440 in 1992-93, proposed by Liz Lynne on 18/10/1993.

That this House views with concern the Government's threatened imposition of VAT on books which would tax learning and training at a time when these activities are more important to the United Kingdom than ever, which would tax the cultural life of citizens, which would harm the book trade, with a possible loss of between 10 to 15,000 jobs, which would like other indirect taxes, hit the poor disproportionately hard and which contradicts the Government's own promises given on several occasions not to extend the scope of VAT.

This motion has been signed by a total of 66 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Liz Lynne18/10/1993RochdaleProposed
Nigel Jones18/10/1993CheltenhamSigned
Menzies Campbell18/10/1993Fife North EastSigned
David Steel18/10/1993Tweeddale, Ettrick and LauderdaleSigned
Don Foster19/10/1993BathSigned
Paul Tyler19/10/1993North CornwallSigned
Jimmy Boyce19/10/1993RotherhamSigned
Hugh Bayley19/10/1993York, City ofSigned
Andrew Faulds19/10/1993Warley EastSigned
Lawrence Cunliffe19/10/1993LeighSigned
Frank Cook19/10/1993Stockton NorthSigned
Eric Clarke19/10/1993MidlothianSigned
Alan Meale19/10/1993MansfieldSigned
Ken Livingstone19/10/1993Brent EastSigned
Kevin Hughes19/10/1993Doncaster NorthSigned
Keith Hill19/10/1993StreathamSigned
Nick Harvey19/10/1993North DevonSigned
Jack Thompson20/10/1993WansbeckSigned
Paddy Tipping20/10/1993SherwoodSigned
John Battle20/10/1993Leeds WestSigned
John Gunnell20/10/1993Leeds South and MorleySigned
David Alton20/10/1993Liverpool Mossley HillSigned
Neil Gerrard20/10/1993WalthamstowSigned
John Evans20/10/1993St Helens NorthSigned
Michael Connarty20/10/1993Falkirk EastSigned
Malcolm Chisholm20/10/1993Edinburgh LeithSigned
Edward O'Hara20/10/1993Knowsley SouthSigned
Ray Michie20/10/1993Argyll & ButeSigned
Eddie Loyden20/10/1993Liverpool, GarstonSigned
Barry Jones20/10/1993Alyn & DeesideSigned
John Heppell20/10/1993Nottingham EastSigned
Nick Raynsford20/10/1993GreenwichSigned
Colin Pickthall20/10/1993West LancashireSigned
David Hanson20/10/1993DelynSigned
Malcolm Bruce20/10/1993GordonSigned
Eric Illsley21/10/1993Barnsley CentralSigned
Matthew Taylor21/10/1993TruroSigned
Ann Coffey21/10/1993StockportSigned
John Hutton21/10/1993Barrow & FurnessSigned
Robert Hughes21/10/1993Aberdeen NorthSigned
Russell Johnston25/10/1993Inverness, Nairn and LochaberSigned
Alan Milburn25/10/1993DarlingtonSigned
Alex Carlile25/10/1993MontgomerySigned
Win Griffiths25/10/1993BridgendSigned
Alan Beith25/10/1993Berwick-upon-TweedSigned
Audrey Wise25/10/1993PrestonSigned
Robert Parry26/10/1993Liverpool, RiversideSigned
Dennis Turner26/10/1993Wolverhampton South EastSigned
Bridget Prentice26/10/1993Lewisham EastSigned
Roy Hughes26/10/1993Newport EastSigned
Jamie Cann27/10/1993IpswichSigned
Michael Clapham27/10/1993Barnsley West & PenistoneSigned
Jim Cunningham27/10/1993Coventry South EastSigned
Nick Ainger27/10/1993PembrokeSigned
Mike Watson27/10/1993Glasgow CentralSigned
Alan Simpson28/10/1993Nottingham SouthSigned
Ian Davidson28/10/1993Glasgow, GovanSigned
Keith Bradley28/10/1993Manchester, WithingtonSigned
Charles Kennedy28/10/1993Ross and Cromarty and SkyeSigned
David Rendel28/10/1993NewburySigned
Greg Pope28/10/1993HyndburnSigned
Jim Wallace01/11/1993Orkney & ShetlandSigned
Joan Walley01/11/1993Stoke-on-Trent NorthSigned
Andrew MacKinlay02/11/1993ThurrockSigned
Kate Hoey04/11/1993VauxhallSigned
Bill Etherington04/11/1993Sunderland NorthSigned

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