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Investment And Choice For Council Tenants

EDM number 430 in 2003-04, proposed by Austin Mitchell on 14/01/2004.

That this House calls on the Government to make the choice for council tenants more genuine by including the option, which surveys show tenants prefer, of staying with the council and improving homes through direct investment, instead of restricting choice to stock transfer, PFI finance or arm's length management organisations; recommends that the Government ends the pressure exerted on councils and tenants through inadequate funding of council housing by giving councils a level playing field with housing associations and arm's length management organisations in respect of investment, funding and the ability to borrow; believes that the present ideological obsession with pressuring councils to get rid of the housing stock they have built up over the years to serve the needs of local people is doctrinaire, inefficient, and more expensive than council control, because council housing can pay for itself but privatisation requires subsidy through council, housing revenue account and general funds, as well as huge debt write-offs, gap funding, private finance credits and substantial fees for consultants, lawyers, surveyors and advisers, estimated by the Audit Office at ú435 per house, and higher spending on housing benefits, all without producing any real increase in tenant satisfaction; and therefore calls on the Government to end the discrimination against council housing, enabling councils to improve and build new council housing which tenants prefer and most councils want.

This motion has been signed by a total of 130 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Austin Mitchell14/01/2004Great GrimsbyLabourProposed
Alan Simpson14/01/2004Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Paul Holmes14/01/2004ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSigned
Kelvin Hopkins14/01/2004Luton NorthLabourSigned
Brian Iddon14/01/2004Bolton South EastLabourSigned
Lynne Jones14/01/2004Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
David Taylor14/01/2004North West LeicestershireLabour Co-operativeSigned
Ken Purchase15/01/2004Wolverhampton North EastLabour/Co-operativeSigned
Bob Russell15/01/2004ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
John McDonnell15/01/2004Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
Ann Cryer15/01/2004KeighleyLabourSigned
Harry Barnes15/01/2004North East DerbyshireLabourSigned
Rudi Vis15/01/2004Finchley & Golders GreenLabourSigned
Adam Price19/01/2004Carmarthen East & DinefwrPlaid CymruSigned
Colin Breed19/01/2004South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Martin Caton19/01/2004GowerLabourSigned
Sue Doughty19/01/2004GuildfordLiberal DemocratSigned
Bill Etherington19/01/2004Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Mike Hancock19/01/2004Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Karen Buck20/01/2004Regent's Park and Kensington NorthLabourSigned
John Austin20/01/2004Erith & ThamesmeadLabourSigned
Dennis Skinner21/01/2004BolsoverLabourSigned
Nigel Jones21/01/2004CheltenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
David Kidney21/01/2004StaffordLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn21/01/2004Islington NorthLabourSigned
Robert Wareing21/01/2004Liverpool, West DerbyLabourSigned
Stephen Hepburn22/01/2004JarrowLabourSigned
Alan Hurst22/01/2004BraintreeLabourSigned
Andy King22/01/2004Rugby & KenilworthLabourSigned
Kevin McNamara22/01/2004Kingston upon Hull NorthLabourSigned
Diana Organ22/01/2004Forest of DeanLabourSigned
Michael Clapham22/01/2004Barnsley West & PenistoneLabourSigned
Harry Cohen26/01/2004Leyton & WansteadLabourSigned
David Drew26/01/2004StroudLabour Co-operativeSigned
Evan Harris02/02/2004Oxford West & AbingdonLiberal DemocratSigned
Neil Gerrard02/02/2004WalthamstowLabourSigned
Mike Wood03/02/2004Batley & SpenLabourSigned
Rob Marris05/02/2004Wolverhampton South WestLabourSigned
Joan Walley06/02/2004Stoke-on-Trent NorthLabourSigned
Linda Perham09/02/2004Ilford NorthLabourSigned
Norman Baker09/02/2004LewesLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew Bennett09/02/2004Denton & ReddishLabourSigned
John Mann10/02/2004BassetlawLabourSigned
John McWilliam10/02/2004BlaydonLabourSigned
Tony Lloyd11/02/2004Manchester CentralLabourSigned
Anthony D Wright11/02/2004Great YarmouthLabourSigned
George Stevenson12/02/2004Stoke-on-Trent SouthLabourSigned
Roger Godsiff23/02/2004Birmingham, Sparkbrook & Small HeathLabourSigned
Valerie Davey24/02/2004Bristol WestLabourSigned
Bob Blizzard24/02/2004WaveneyLabourSigned
Jon Trickett24/02/2004HemsworthLabourSigned
David Hamilton26/02/2004MidlothianLabourSigned
Terry Lewis02/03/2004WorsleyLabourSigned
Phil Sawford03/03/2004KetteringLabourSigned
Clive Betts05/03/2004Sheffield, AttercliffeLabourSigned
Harold Best08/03/2004Leeds North WestLabourSigned
Lembit 11/03/2004MontgomeryshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Julie Morgan12/03/2004Cardiff NorthLabourSigned
Diane Abbott12/03/2004Hackney North & Stoke NewingtonLabourSigned
Tony McWalter15/03/2004Hemel HempsteadLabour Co-operativeSigned
Frank Cook22/03/2004Stockton NorthLabourSigned
Tony Clarke23/03/2004Northampton SouthLabourSigned
Marsha Singh26/03/2004Bradford WestLabourSigned
Lindsay Hoyle30/03/2004ChorleyLabourSigned
Laura Moffatt30/03/2004CrawleyLabourSigned
Simon Hughes31/03/2004North Southwark & BermondseyLiberal DemocratSigned
David Rendel19/04/2004NewburyLiberal DemocratSigned
Peter Kilfoyle19/04/2004Liverpool, WaltonLabourSigned
Patsy Calton19/04/2004CheadleLiberal DemocratSigned
Ian Gibson19/04/2004Norwich NorthLabourSigned
Roger Berry19/04/2004KingswoodLabourSigned
Roger Williams19/04/2004Brecon & RadnorshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Gwyneth Dunwoody20/04/2004Crewe & NantwichLabourSigned
John Grogan20/04/2004SelbyLabourSigned
Syd Rapson26/04/2004Portsmouth NorthLabourSigned
Menzies Campbell28/04/2004Fife North EastLiberal DemocratSigned
George Galloway30/04/2004Glasgow, KelvinIndependentSigned
Gwyn Prosser04/05/2004DoverLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins04/05/2004TamworthLabourSigned
Don Foster04/05/2004BathLiberal DemocratSigned
Nicholas Winterton05/05/2004MacclesfieldConservativeSigned
Michael Meacher06/05/2004Oldham West & RoytonLabourSigned
David Heyes10/05/2004Ashton-under-LyneLabourSigned
Janet Anderson10/05/2004Rossendale & DarwenLabourSigned
Andrew Stunell11/05/2004Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
Nick Brown12/05/2004Newcastle upon Tyne East & WallsendLabourSigned
Hywel Francis12/05/2004AberavonLabourSigned
Barbara Follett13/05/2004StevenageLabourSigned
Desmond Turner13/05/2004Brighton, KemptownLabourSigned
Doug Henderson17/05/2004Newcastle upon Tyne NorthLabourSigned
Llew Smith19/05/2004Blaenau GwentLabourSigned
Andrew George19/05/2004St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Joe Benton19/05/2004BootleLabourSigned
John Smith20/05/2004Vale of GlamorganLabourSigned
Simon Thomas25/05/2004CeredigionPlaid CymruSigned
John Cryer27/05/2004HornchurchLabourSigned
Tom Brake07/06/2004Carshalton & WallingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Jim Dobbin07/06/2004Heywood & MiddletonLabour Co-operativeSigned
Paul Stinchcombe07/06/2004WellingboroughLabourSigned
Betty Williams07/06/2004ConwyLabourSigned
Michael Connarty08/06/2004Falkirk EastLabourSigned
Alan Meale09/06/2004MansfieldLabourSigned
Doug Naysmith09/06/2004Bristol North WestLabour Co-operativeSigned
Edward Davey09/06/2004Kingston & SurbitonLiberal DemocratSigned
Piara S Khabra16/06/2004Ealing, SouthallLabourSigned
Jim Cunningham16/06/2004Coventry SouthLabourSigned
Elfyn Llwyd18/06/2004Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Andrew MacKinlay18/06/2004ThurrockLabourSigned
Matthew Green18/06/2004LudlowLiberal DemocratSigned
Colin Burgon22/06/2004ElmetLabourSigned
Phil Willis22/06/2004Harrogate & KnaresboroughLiberal DemocratSigned
Martin Smyth24/06/2004Belfast SouthUUPSigned
Alice Mahon28/06/2004HalifaxLabourSigned
Iain Luke01/07/2004Dundee EastLabourSigned
Denis Murphy05/07/2004WansbeckLabourSigned
Ronnie Campbell05/07/2004Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Parmjit Dhanda06/07/2004GloucesterLabourSigned
Anne Campbell13/07/2004CambridgeLabourSigned
Win Griffiths15/07/2004BridgendLabourSigned
George Mudie21/07/2004Leeds EastLabourSigned
Jon Cruddas21/07/2004DagenhamLabourSigned
Gavin Strang21/07/2004Edinburgh East & MusselburghLabourSigned
Mike Gapes13/09/2004Ilford SouthLabour Co-operativeSigned
David Chaytor15/09/2004Bury NorthLabourSigned
Barbara Roche11/10/2004Hornsey & Wood GreenLabourSigned
Paul Burstow12/10/2004Sutton & CheamLiberal DemocratSigned
David Crausby14/10/2004Bolton North EastLabourSigned
Brian Cotter11/11/2004Weston-Super-MareLiberal DemocratSigned
Tony Colman17/11/2004PutneyLabourSigned
Terry DavisUnknownWithdrawn

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