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VAT And Charities

EDM number 826 in 2006-07, proposed by Frank Cook on 05/02/2007.

That this House takes careful note of the logic professed by successive governments over the past 25 years to the long-running fiscal sore of irrecoverable VAT and its consequential impact on the work of charities; notes with equal care that the common and oft-recited rebuttal to successive pleas for regulatory change has been to pray in aid the specious justification that `there are something like 250,000 charities and a general exemption for all of those would produce astronomic costs'; further notes with a measure of restrained anger and impatience that some charities such as the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) and other search and rescue agencies, staffed as they are by well-trained and highly skilled volunteers, invariably operating in conditions that are by definition extremely hazardous, save lives frequently by the very act of putting their own in mortal danger; and calls upon the Government for this reason if for no other to take this previously neglected aspect into account as a component of a further review of this issue so as to redress the circumstances which can cost the RNLI the loss of their cash as well as their crews.

This motion has been signed by a total of 52 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Frank Cook05/02/2007Stockton NorthLabourProposed
Bob Russell05/02/2007ColchesterLiberal DemocratSeconded
Alan Meale06/02/2007MansfieldLabourSeconded
Bob Spink06/02/2007Castle PointConservativeSeconded
Glenda Jackson06/02/2007Hampstead and HighgateLabourSeconded
Andrew Dismore06/02/2007HendonLabourSeconded
Peter Bottomley06/02/2007Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Philip Davies06/02/2007ShipleyConservativeSigned
Hywel Williams06/02/2007CaernarfonPlaid CymruSigned
David Taylor06/02/2007North West LeicestershireLabourSigned
Mark Durkan06/02/2007FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Jeremy Corbyn06/02/2007Islington NorthLabourSigned
Harry Cohen06/02/2007Leyton and WansteadLabourSigned
Gregory Campbell06/02/2007East LondonderryDUPSigned
Mike Hancock07/02/2007Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
David Borrow07/02/2007South RibbleLabourSigned
Ian Gibson07/02/2007Norwich NorthLabourSigned
Andrew George07/02/2007St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
David Drew07/02/2007StroudLabourSigned
Jeffrey M Donaldson07/02/2007Lagan ValleyDUPSigned
Janet Dean07/02/2007BurtonLabourSigned
Ronnie Campbell07/02/2007Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Colin Breed07/02/2007South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
William McCrea07/02/2007South AntrimDUPSigned
Elfyn Llwyd07/02/2007Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
David Simpson07/02/2007Upper BannDUPSigned
Alan Simpson07/02/2007Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Martin Caton07/02/2007GowerLabourSigned
Nigel Evans08/02/2007Ribble ValleyConservativeSigned
Neil Gerrard08/02/2007WalthamstowLabourSigned
Nicholas Winterton08/02/2007MacclesfieldConservativeSigned
Nia Griffith08/02/2007LlanelliLabourSigned
Richard Younger-Ross19/02/2007TeignbridgeLiberal DemocratSigned
John Leech19/02/2007Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Derek Wyatt19/02/2007Sittingbourne and SheppeyLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins19/02/2007Luton NorthLabourSigned
Chris Ruane19/02/2007Vale of ClwydLabourSigned
Ann Cryer19/02/2007KeighleyLabourSigned
Jeff Ennis21/02/2007Barnsley East and MexboroughLabourSigned
Rudi Vis21/02/2007Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Derek Conway22/02/2007Old Bexley & SidcupConservativeSigned
David Crausby22/02/2007Bolton North EastLabourSigned
Mohammad Sarwar26/02/2007Glasgow CentralLabourSigned
Bill Etherington27/02/2007Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
John Hemming27/02/2007Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Brian Jenkins28/02/2007TamworthLabourSigned
John McDonnell07/03/2007Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Martin Salter26/03/2007Reading WestLabourSigned
Paul Rowen18/04/2007RochdaleLiberal DemocratSigned
Nigel Dodds02/05/2007Belfast NorthDUPSigned
Nick Harvey15/05/2007North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Reid04/07/2007Argyll and ButeLiberal DemocratSigned

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