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Gap Between Rich And Poor

EDM number 2 in 2005-06, proposed by Bob Russell on 17/05/2005.

That this House is dismayed that the gap between rich and poor has widened since 1997; is disturbed that the percentage of wealth held by the top 10 per cent. of the population has increased from 47 per cent. to 54 per cent.; congratulates the Institute of Public Policy Research Commission on Social Justice, set up at the request of the late Labour leader John Smith, for drawing these worrying facts to public attention; and calls on the Prime Minister to explain why over the past eight years the gap between the rich and the poor has widened, with the result that the UK has become a less equal society, and whether he regards this as a success or failure of his Government's policies.

This motion has been signed by a total of 48 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Bob Russell17/05/2005ColchesterLiberal DemocratProposed
Tom Brake18/05/2005Carshalton and WallingtonLiberal DemocratSeconded
Vincent Cable18/05/2005TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSeconded
Nick Harvey18/05/2005North DevonLiberal DemocratSeconded
David Heath18/05/2005Somerton & FromeLiberal DemocratSeconded
Colin Breed18/05/2005South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSeconded
Paul Holmes18/05/2005ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSigned
Lynne Jones18/05/2005Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Sandra Gidley18/05/2005RomseyLiberal DemocratSigned
Peter Bottomley18/05/2005Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Simon Hughes19/05/2005North Southwark and BermondseyLiberal DemocratSigned
David Taylor19/05/2005North West LeicestershireLabourSigned
Andrew George19/05/2005St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Annette Brooke19/05/2005Mid Dorset and North PooleLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Keetch19/05/2005HerefordLiberal DemocratSigned
John Pugh19/05/2005SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
Ann Cryer23/05/2005KeighleyLabourSigned
Bill Etherington23/05/2005Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
David Howarth23/05/2005CambridgeLiberal DemocratSigned
Hywel Williams24/05/2005CaernarfonPlaid CymruSigned
Julia Goldsworthy24/05/2005Falmouth and CamborneLiberal DemocratSigned
Roger Williams24/05/2005Brecon and RadnorshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Weir24/05/2005AngusScottish National PartySigned
Michael Clapham24/05/2005Barnsley West and PenistoneLabourSigned
Gregory Campbell24/05/2005East LondonderryDUPSigned
Adam Price24/05/2005Carmarthen East and DinefwrPlaid CymruSigned
Mike Hancock24/05/2005Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Elfyn Llwyd25/05/2005Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
David Drew25/05/2005StroudLabourSigned
Andrew Stunell25/05/2005Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Burstow26/05/2005Sutton and CheamLiberal DemocratSigned
John Leech06/06/2005Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Angus MacNeil06/06/2005Na h-Eileanan an IarScottish National PartySigned
Lady Hermon07/06/2005North DownUUPSigned
Mark Williams08/06/2005CeredigionLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Simpson09/06/2005Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Paul Truswell09/06/2005PudseyLabourSigned
Jo Swinson13/06/2005East DunbartonshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Edward Davey16/06/2005Kingston and SurbitonLiberal DemocratSigned
Stewart Hosie21/06/2005Dundee EastScottish National PartySigned
Rob Marris04/07/2005Wolverhampton South WestLabourSigned
John McDonnell04/07/2005Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Alex Salmond07/07/2005Banff and BuchanScottish National PartySigned
Susan Kramer19/07/2005Richmond ParkLiberal DemocratSigned
Sarah Teather21/07/2005Brent EastLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew Pelling09/01/2006Croydon CentralConservativeSigned
Eddie McGrady23/01/2006South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Peter LawUnknownWithdrawn

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