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Energy Bills, Fuel Poverty And VAT Windfall

EDM number 1682 in 2007-08, proposed by Mark Durkan on 03/06/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Energy, Incomes and poverty and Taxation.

That this House is concerned that fuel poverty is widening and deepening as a consequence of rapidly rising energy prices; notes that people are paying more VAT in their increasing energy bills; calls on the Treasury to use these increased VAT receipts, along with other resources, to support low-income households in coping with the inordinate burden of rampant energy costs; further calls on relevant Ministers to bring forward proposals to extend previous and existing programmes to alleviate fuel poverty; and urges the Government to engage with devolved administrations, local government and agencies working to combat fuel poverty and promote energy efficiency in delivering new interventions to bring relief to hard-pressed households using the VAT windfall.

This motion has been signed by a total of 36 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Mark Durkan03/06/2008FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartyProposed
Bob Spink03/06/2008Castle PointUKIPSeconded
Bob Russell03/06/2008ColchesterLiberal DemocratSeconded
Andrew George03/06/2008St IvesLiberal DemocratSeconded
Robert Wareing04/06/2008Liverpool, West DerbyIndependentSeconded
Hywel Williams04/06/2008CaernarfonPlaid CymruSeconded
Lynne Jones04/06/2008Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Elfyn Llwyd04/06/2008Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Gregory Campbell04/06/2008East LondonderryDUPSigned
Ann Cryer04/06/2008KeighleyLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins05/06/2008Luton NorthLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn05/06/2008Islington NorthLabourSigned
Tony Lloyd06/06/2008Manchester CentralLabourSigned
Mike Hancock09/06/2008Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Betty Williams09/06/2008ConwyLabourSigned
Dai Davies10/06/2008Blaenau GwentIndependentSigned
John Leech10/06/2008Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Hywel Francis10/06/2008AberavonLabourSigned
Colin Burgon10/06/2008ElmetLabourSigned
Marsha Singh10/06/2008Bradford WestLabourSigned
Ken Purchase10/06/2008Wolverhampton North EastLabourSigned
Albert Owen10/06/2008Ynys MLabourSigned
Alan Simpson11/06/2008Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
David Clelland11/06/2008Tyne BridgeLabourSigned
Peter Bottomley11/06/2008Worthing WestConservativeSigned
Rudi Vis11/06/2008Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Jim Dobbin12/06/2008Heywood and MiddletonLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins12/06/2008TamworthLabourSigned
Paul Rowen16/06/2008RochdaleLiberal DemocratSigned
Alasdair McDonnell17/06/2008Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
John McDonnell23/06/2008Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Eddie McGrady24/06/2008South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
George Galloway26/06/2008Bethnal Green and BowRespectSigned
Emily Thornberry26/06/2008Islington South and FinsburyLabourSigned
David Heyes30/06/2008Ashton-under-LyneLabourSigned
Bill Etherington02/07/2008Sunderland NorthLabourSigned

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