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Social Security (Lone Parents And Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2008

EDM number 48 in 2008-09, proposed by Lynne Jones on 03/12/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Children and families and Family benefits.

That this House notes the report by the Social Security Advisory Committee on the Social Security (Lone Parents and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2008 that will force lone parents with children as young as seven years to seek work or suffer benefits cuts of up to 40 per cent.; endorses the Committee's view that in the absence of high quality and reliable `wrap around childcare' this could increase hardship and be detrimental to family life; further notes that the report states that `lone parents who are sanctioned face financial penalties that will increase child poverty - an outcome at odds with the primary rationale that the Department for Work and Pensions has put forward'; further notes that the reforms could also damage lone parents' health by causing worry and stress and have negative wider social impacts including on children; and considers that the Government should accept the Committee's recommendation not to implement the regulations and should not even contemplate any recommendation to force lone parents with children as young as one to return to work.

This motion has been signed by a total of 33 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Lynne Jones03/12/2008Birmingham, Selly OakLabourProposed
John Leech03/12/2008Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSeconded
Dai Davies03/12/2008Blaenau GwentIndependentSeconded
Peter Bottomley03/12/2008Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Ronnie Campbell03/12/2008Blyth ValleyLabourSeconded
David Drew03/12/2008StroudLabourSeconded
John McDonnell03/12/2008Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Harry Cohen03/12/2008Leyton and WansteadLabourSigned
Andrew George03/12/2008St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Adrian Sanders04/12/2008TorbayLiberal DemocratSigned
David Taylor04/12/2008North West LeicestershireLabourSigned
Paul Flynn08/12/2008Newport WestLabourSigned
Mark Williams08/12/2008CeredigionLiberal DemocratSigned
Robert Wareing08/12/2008Liverpool, West DerbyIndependentSigned
Mike Hancock08/12/2008Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Jeremy Corbyn08/12/2008Islington NorthLabourSigned
Elfyn Llwyd08/12/2008Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Kelvin Hopkins08/12/2008Luton NorthLabourSigned
Evan Harris08/12/2008Oxford West and AbingdonLiberal DemocratSigned
Ann Cryer08/12/2008KeighleyLabourSigned
Mark Durkan09/12/2008FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
William McCrea10/12/2008South AntrimDUPSigned
Martin Caton10/12/2008GowerLabourSigned
Michael Clapham10/12/2008Barnsley West and PenistoneLabourSigned
Eric Illsley11/12/2008Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Jim Devine11/12/2008LivingstonLabourSigned
Neil Gerrard11/12/2008WalthamstowLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins11/12/2008TamworthLabourSigned
Frank Cook16/12/2008Stockton NorthLabourSigned
Bill Etherington16/12/2008Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
George Galloway16/12/2008Bethnal Green and BowRespectSigned
Katy Clark17/12/2008North Ayrshire and ArranLabourSigned
Ian GibsonUnknownWithdrawn

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