Winter Fuel Allowances For Families With Disabled Children

EDM number 1144 in 2007-08, proposed by Alan Meale on 10/03/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Incomes and poverty, Sickness, disability and carers' benefits and Utilities.

That this House acknowledges the Every Disabled Child Matters campaign to secure from the Government a budgetary commitment to pilot a scheme to give winter fuel allowances to UK families with disabled children; notes evidence from research that shows two thirds of families in this category struggle to pay their fuel bills in the winter-time due to rising fuel costs and the need to maintain constant home temperature levels to ward off infections and bouts of restricted mobility caused directly by cold conditions; and calls upon the Government to respond positively to the campaign which would both relieve hardship and suffering whilst helping to lift up to 40,000 vulnerable families out of poverty.

This motion has been signed by a total of 85 MPs.