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Royal British Legion And Age Concern England Petition

EDM number 1023 in 2008-09, proposed by Bruce George on 09/03/2009.
Categorised under the topics of Housing benefits and Veterans.

That this House congratulates the Royal British Legion for securing some 25,000 signatures supporting the Return to Rationing? campaign; notes that a petition was presented to 10 Downing Street on 25 February 2009; further notes with concern that a June 2008 Ipsos MORI survey, commissioned by the Legion, revealed that over a third of the ex-service community over the age of 65 exist on an income below the Minimum Income for Healthy Living as defined by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; further notes that council tax bills are probably the most significant household expense for older people and yet, according to the 2007 Lyons Inquiry into Local Government, the take-up rate among older people for what is essentially a rebate has fallen by about 30 per cent. since it was renamed as council tax benefit, down from 90 per cent. take-up of the rebate under the old rates system; welcomes the Ipsos MORI survey finding that 56 per cent. of respondents believed eligible veterans would be more likely to claim council tax benefit if it were known as a rebate, not a benefit; acknowledges the 2006 National Audit Office estimate that just a 10 per cent. increase in pensioner take-up of council tax benefit would lift 47,000 pensioners out of poverty; believes therefore that many ex-service pensioners could gain from an increase in take-up resulting from council tax benefit being rebranded as a rebate; and urges the Government to commit now to such rebranding within the lifetime of this Parliament.

This motion has been signed by a total of 62 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Bruce George09/03/2009Walsall SouthLabourProposed
Michael Mates09/03/2009East HampshireConservativeSeconded
Bob Russell09/03/2009ColchesterLiberal DemocratSeconded
Brian Iddon10/03/2009Bolton South EastLabourSeconded
Mike Hancock10/03/2009Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSeconded
Mark Hunter10/03/2009CheadleLiberal DemocratSeconded
Martin Caton10/03/2009GowerLabourSigned
Dan Rogerson10/03/2009North CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Nicholas Winterton10/03/2009MacclesfieldConservativeSigned
Desmond Turner10/03/2009Brighton, KemptownLabourSigned
Peter Bottomley10/03/2009Worthing WestConservativeSigned
James Gray10/03/2009North WiltshireConservativeSigned
Andrew George10/03/2009St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
David Drew10/03/2009StroudLabourSigned
Janet Dean10/03/2009BurtonLabourSigned
Ann Cryer10/03/2009KeighleyLabourSigned
Gregory Campbell10/03/2009East LondonderryDUPSigned
Lynne Jones10/03/2009Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSigned
Eric Illsley10/03/2009Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Lindsay Hoyle10/03/2009ChorleyLabourSigned
Paul Holmes10/03/2009ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSigned
Bob Spink10/03/2009Castle PointIndependentSigned
Greg Pope10/03/2009HyndburnLabourSigned
Ann Winterton11/03/2009CongletonConservativeSigned
Phil Willis11/03/2009Harrogate and KnaresboroughLiberal DemocratSigned
Joan Walley11/03/2009Stoke-on-Trent NorthLabourSigned
David Taylor11/03/2009North West LeicestershireLabourSigned
Edward Davey11/03/2009Kingston and SurbitonLiberal DemocratSigned
Nigel Dodds11/03/2009Belfast NorthDUPSigned
David Simpson11/03/2009Upper BannDUPSigned
Marsha Singh11/03/2009Bradford WestLabourSigned
Michael Clapham11/03/2009Barnsley West and PenistoneLabourSigned
John Pugh12/03/2009SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Simpson12/03/2009Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins12/03/2009Luton NorthLabourSigned
David Crausby12/03/2009Bolton North EastLabourSigned
John Hemming12/03/2009Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Ian Taylor13/03/2009Esher and WaltonConservativeSigned
Robert Wareing13/03/2009Liverpool, West DerbyIndependentSigned
Willie Rennie13/03/2009Dunfermline and West FifeLiberal DemocratSigned
Lynne Featherstone16/03/2009Hornsey and Wood GreenLiberal DemocratSigned
John Leech16/03/2009Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Chris McCafferty17/03/2009Calder ValleyLabourSigned
Linda Riordan18/03/2009HalifaxLabourSigned
Rudi Vis18/03/2009Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
David Clelland18/03/2009Tyne BridgeLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins19/03/2009TamworthLabourSigned
Elfyn Llwyd19/03/2009Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Nigel Evans19/03/2009Ribble ValleyConservativeSigned
Neil Gerrard19/03/2009WalthamstowLabourSigned
Tim Farron19/03/2009Westmorland and LonsdaleLiberal DemocratSigned
Mark Williams20/03/2009CeredigionLiberal DemocratSigned
David Heyes23/03/2009Ashton-under-LyneLabourSigned
Lady Hermon23/03/2009North DownUUPSigned
David Chaytor25/03/2009Bury NorthLabourSigned
Nick Harvey26/03/2009North DevonLiberal DemocratSigned
Joan Ryan30/03/2009Enfield NorthLabourSigned
Don Foster31/03/2009BathLiberal DemocratSigned
Roger Williams01/04/2009Brecon and RadnorshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Bill Etherington23/04/2009Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Malcolm Bruce23/06/2009GordonLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Jabez FosterUnknownWithdrawn

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