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Investment In Building New Homes And The Housing Benefit Bill

EDM number 155 in 2015-16, proposed by Alex Cunningham on 18/06/2015.
Categorised under the topics of Housing, Housing benefits, Housing supply and Social rented housing.

That this House notes with concern that there has been a dramatic reduction in the supply of housing, particularly social housing at social rents, since 2010; further notes that plans to extend the right to buy scheme to housing association tenants in England will further reduce the number of social homes available and threaten the financial viability of many housing associations; believes that building more homes will lower the costs of housing overall for everyone, help to cut the soaring housing benefit bill, enabling the transition from benefits to bricks, and ensure that thousands of families in desperate need of a home and living in unacceptable conditions are housed adequately; and calls on the Government to set a target of increasing the supply of housing to 250,000 new homes per year, including within this overall target a commitment to deliver a significant proportion of affordable and new social rented homes provided by local authorities and housing associations, to take urgent action to ensure effective regulation in the private rented sector to make private renting more affordable, secure and stable and to reform welfare policy to reverse the widening disparity created by cuts in housing benefit between rents and the benefit received.

This motion has been signed by a total of 39 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Alex Cunningham18/06/2015Stockton NorthLabourProposed
David Anderson18/06/2015BlaydonLabourSeconded
Mark Durkan18/06/2015FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySeconded
Angela Rayner18/06/2015Ashton-under-LyneLabourSeconded
Melanie Onn18/06/2015Great GrimsbyLabourSeconded
Dennis Skinner22/06/2015BolsoverLabourSeconded
Margaret Ritchie22/06/2015South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Richard Burgon22/06/2015Leeds EastLabourSigned
Jim Shannon23/06/2015StrangfordDUPSigned
Chris Matheson23/06/2015City of ChesterLabourSigned
Jeremy Corbyn23/06/2015Islington NorthLabourSigned
Daniel Zeichner23/06/2015CambridgeLabourSigned
Alex Salmond23/06/2015Signed
Ruth Cadbury23/06/2015Brentford and IsleworthLabourSigned
John McDonnell23/06/2015Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Drew Hendry24/06/2015Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and StrathspeyScottish National PartySigned
Alasdair McDonnell24/06/2015Belfast SouthSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Ronnie Campbell24/06/2015Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins24/06/2015Luton NorthLabourSigned
Stephen Hepburn24/06/2015JarrowLabourSigned
Chris Stephens24/06/2015Glasgow South WestScottish National PartySigned
Ian Mearns24/06/2015GatesheadLabourSigned
Deidre Brock24/06/2015Edinburgh North and LeithScottish National PartySigned
Christina Rees25/06/2015NeathLabourSigned
Imran Hussain25/06/2015Bradford EastLabourSigned
Rachael Maskell29/06/2015York CentralLabour/Co-operativeSigned
Liz McInnes29/06/2015Heywood and MiddletonLabourSigned
Paul Flynn29/06/2015Newport WestLabourSigned
Mary Glindon29/06/2015North TynesideLabourSigned
Jess Phillips02/07/2015Birmingham, YardleyLabourSigned
Harry Harpham02/07/2015Sheffield, Brightside and HillsboroughLabourSigned
Valerie Vaz06/07/2015Walsall SouthLabourSigned
Catherine West06/07/2015Hornsey and Wood GreenLabourSigned
Ruth Smeeth06/07/2015Stoke-on-Trent NorthLabourSigned
Helen Goodman08/07/2015Bishop AucklandLabourSigned
Jim Cunningham15/07/2015Coventry SouthLabourSigned
David Crausby21/07/2015Bolton North EastLabourSigned
Stuart McDonald07/09/2015Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch EastScottish National PartySigned
Fabian Hamilton07/09/2015Leeds North EastLabourSigned

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