Tax Credits (EDM818)

Tax Credits

EDM number 818 in 2006-07, proposed by David Laws on 05/02/2007.

That this House notes with concern that in 2004-05 almost two million people were overpaid tax credits at a cost of Â£1.8 billion and that the Comptroller and Auditor General in his report of HM Revenue and Customs' accounts predicted that overpayments of a similar magnitude will have occurred in 2005-06; recognises that when a tax credit is overpaid the Tax Credit Office makes an assumption that the claimant is at fault and thus automatically claims back the overpayment, often leading to great anxiety and financial hardship for the claimant; and therefore calls upon the Government to reverse the burden of proof when claiming back all overpaid tax credits, and to bring forward proposals to return to a system of fixed awards to deliver stability for tax credit claimants on low incomes.

This motion has been signed by a total of 70 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
David Laws	05/02/2007	Yeovil	Liberal Democrat	Proposed
Danny Alexander	05/02/2007	Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Bob Spink	05/02/2007	Castle Point	Conservative	Seconded
Bob Russell	05/02/2007	Colchester	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Paul Holmes	06/02/2007	Chesterfield	Liberal Democrat	Seconded
Hywel Williams	06/02/2007	Caernarfon	Plaid Cymru	Seconded
Gregory Campbell	06/02/2007	East Londonderry	DUP	Signed
Peter Bottomley	06/02/2007	Worthing West	Conservative	Signed
Stephen Williams	06/02/2007	Bristol West	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Phil Willis	07/02/2007	Harrogate and Knaresborough	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Willie Rennie	07/02/2007	Dunfermline and West Fife	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Mark Hunter	07/02/2007	Cheadle	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Mark Williams	07/02/2007	Ceredigion	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Norman Baker	07/02/2007	Lewes	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Mike Hancock	07/02/2007	Portsmouth South	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Andrew George	07/02/2007	St Ives	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Ronnie Campbell	07/02/2007	Blyth Valley	Labour	Signed
Annette Brooke	07/02/2007	Mid Dorset and North Poole	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Colin Breed	07/02/2007	South East Cornwall	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Alan Simpson	07/02/2007	Nottingham South	Labour	Signed
William McCrea	07/02/2007	South Antrim	DUP	Signed
Elfyn Llwyd	07/02/2007	Meirionnydd Nant Conwy	Plaid Cymru	Signed
David Simpson	07/02/2007	Upper Bann	DUP	Signed
Jeffrey M Donaldson	07/02/2007	Lagan Valley	DUP	Signed
Lembit	08/02/2007	Montgomeryshire	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Greg Mulholland	08/02/2007	Leeds North West	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Lorely Burt	08/02/2007	Solihull	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Sarah Teather	08/02/2007	Brent East	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Neil Gerrard	08/02/2007	Walthamstow	Labour	Signed
Don Foster	08/02/2007	Bath	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Vincent Cable	08/02/2007	Twickenham	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Norman Lamb	08/02/2007	North Norfolk	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Charles Kennedy	08/02/2007	Ross, Skye and Lochaber	Liberal Democrat	Signed
David Heath	08/02/2007	Somerton & Frome	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Pugh	08/02/2007	Southport	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Evan Harris	19/02/2007	Oxford West and Abingdon	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Jo Swinson	19/02/2007	East Dunbartonshire	Liberal Democrat	Signed
David Howarth	19/02/2007	Cambridge	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Julia Goldsworthy	19/02/2007	Falmouth and Camborne	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Lynne Featherstone	19/02/2007	Hornsey and Wood Green	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Katy Clark	19/02/2007	North Ayrshire and Arran	Labour	Signed
John Thurso	19/02/2007	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Alan Beith	19/02/2007	Berwick-upon-Tweed	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Ann Cryer	19/02/2007	Keighley	Labour	Signed
Paul Keetch	19/02/2007	Hereford	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Kelvin Hopkins	19/02/2007	Luton North	Labour	Signed
Richard Younger-Ross	19/02/2007	Teignbridge	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Andrew Stunell	20/02/2007	Hazel Grove	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Tony Wright	20/02/2007	Cannock Chase	Labour	Signed
John Leech	20/02/2007	Manchester, Withington	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Anne Main	21/02/2007	St Albans	Conservative	Signed
Martin Horwood	21/02/2007	Cheltenham	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Rudi Vis	21/02/2007	Finchley and Golders Green	Labour	Signed
Paul Burstow	21/02/2007	Sutton and Cheam	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Tom Brake	21/02/2007	Carshalton and Wallington	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Matthew Taylor	21/02/2007	Truro and St Austell	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Eddie McGrady	22/02/2007	South Down	Social Democratic and Labour Party	Signed
Derek Conway	22/02/2007	Old Bexley & Sidcup	Conservative	Signed
Edward Davey	22/02/2007	Kingston and Surbiton	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Sandra Gidley	23/02/2007	Romsey	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Jeremy Browne	26/02/2007	Taunton	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Lady Hermon	26/02/2007	North Down	UUP	Signed
John Hemming	27/02/2007	Birmingham, Yardley	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Simon Hughes	01/03/2007	North Southwark and Bermondsey	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Nicholas Clegg	02/03/2007	Sheffield, Hallam	Liberal Democrat	Signed
John Barrett	02/03/2007	Edinburgh West	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Jennifer Willott	22/03/2007	Cardiff Central	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Paul Rowen	18/04/2007	Rochdale	Liberal Democrat	Signed
Nick Harvey	15/05/2007	North Devon	Liberal Democrat	Signed
David Anderson	15/05/2007	Blaydon	Labour	Signed

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