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Encouraging Entrepreneurship

EDM number 1497 in 2010-12, proposed by Stephen Lloyd on 01/03/2011.
Categorised under the topic of Small businesses.

That this House believes in encouraging entrepreneurship; welcomes recommendations from the Federation of Small Businesses to encourage people to set up their own businesses in the light of high levels of unemployment; and calls on the Government to introduce enterprise zones as a means of generating new businesses and to strengthen the New Enterprise Allowance so that it is available to all potential applicants who want to start up a business as soon as they start claiming jobseeker's allowance.

This motion has been signed by a total of 19 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Stephen Lloyd01/03/2011EastbourneLiberal DemocratProposed
Elfyn Llwyd01/03/2011Dwyfor MeirionnyddPlaid CymruSeconded
Mark Durkan01/03/2011FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySeconded
Jim Shannon02/03/2011StrangfordDUPSeconded
David Simpson02/03/2011Upper BannDUPSeconded
Gregory Campbell02/03/2011East LondonderryDUPSeconded
Paul Flynn02/03/2011Newport WestLabourSigned
Jeffrey M Donaldson03/03/2011Lagan ValleyDUPSigned
Mike Hancock03/03/2011Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Ian Paisley Jnr03/03/2011North AntrimDUPSigned
Bob Russell03/03/2011ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Adrian Sanders07/03/2011TorbayLiberal DemocratSigned
Jim Cunningham08/03/2011Coventry SouthLabourSigned
Sandra Osborne09/03/2011Ayr, Carrick and CumnockLabourSigned
Mark Williams10/03/2011CeredigionLiberal DemocratSigned
William McCrea15/03/2011South AntrimDUPSigned
Lindsay Roy16/03/2011GlenrothesLabourSigned
Alasdair McDonnell17/03/2011Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Nigel Dodds31/03/2011Belfast NorthDUPSigned

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