End Child Poverty - Keep The Promise Campaign

EDM number 117 in 2008-09, proposed by Dai Davies on 04/12/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Children and families and Incomes and poverty.

That this House notes the Prime Minister stated in his speech to the Labour Party Conference in Manchester on 23 September 2008 that `because child poverty demeans Britain, we have committed our party to tackle and to end it', and announced his intention to introduce ground breaking legislation to enshrine in law Labour's pledge to end child poverty; welcomes this commitment, while recognising one in three children in the UK still live in poverty; congratulates the organisers of the march in London on 4 October 2008 with the theme of End Child Poverty - Keep the Promise; further notes the importance of the petition handed in to 10 Downing Street by the Campaign to End Child Poverty; further notes that 110 organisations are part of the campaign-organising coalition; calls for special attention to be paid to the necessity for warm, dry and safe homes, a nutritious and balanced diet, access to books and computers, at least one annual holiday, access to public transport, and safe places for recreation; and calls on Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer to make ending childhood poverty his number one priority in his 2009 Budget.

This motion has been signed by a total of 36 MPs, 2 of these signatures have been withdrawn.