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PARLIAMENTARY EARLY DAY MOTION
CHILD BENEFIT (No. 2) (28 April 1996)

Motion Details

That this House condemns Opposition plans to withdraw child benefit from young people in further education on their sixteenth birthday to fund further public spending; notes that this would cut the income of a family with one child in further education by ú560 a year, equivalent to a rise of five pence in the basic rate of income tax for a family on average earnings; recognises that child benefit is in origin a tax rebate and to remove it without reducing taxes, as Labour plan, would make the United Kingdom the only country in the European Union which did not recognise in either the tax or benefit systems the cost of raising children; welcomes the rise in further education brought about by the Government, so that even of the children of unskilled parents, over half now remain in further education at 16 years compared with only 20 per cent. under the last Labour Government; and congratulates the Government on fulfilling its manifesto pledge to pay child benefit for all children and to uprate it in line with inflation.

Sponsored by:
James Pawsey (Conservative)

EDMS Sponsor By Party

Party
Votes
%
 
Conservative
67
91%
 
 
Ulster Unionist Party
2
3%
 
 
Democratic Unionist Party
2
3%
 
 
Crossbench
1
1%
 
 
Labour
1
1%
 
 
Liberal Democrat
1
1%
 
Sponsor List (74 sponsors)
Party
Member
Constituency
Con
Richard Alexander
Con
Mr Jacques Arnold
Con
David Ashby
Con
Matthew Banks
DUP
Lord Bannside
Con
Sir Peter Bottomley
Con
Sir Rhodes Boyson
Con
Sir Julian Brazier
Con
Michael Brown
Con
Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
North Cotswolds
Con
Lord Coe
Con
Mr David Congdon
Con
Mr Simon Coombs
Con
James Couchman
Lab
Mr Lawrence Cunliffe
Con
Nirj Deva
Con
Den Dover
Con
Sir Alan Duncan
Con
Mr Bob Dunn
Con
Sir Anthony Durant
Con
Harold Elletson
Con
David Evans
Con
Mr Nigel Evans
Con
Dame Peggy Fenner
Con
Dudley Fishburn
XB
Lord Fowler
Con
Douglas French
Con
Harry Greenway
Con
Sir John Hannam
Con
Andrew Hargreaves
Con
Lord Haselhurst
Con
Mr Nick Hawkins
Con
Charles Hendry
Con
Robert Hughes
Con
Toby Jessel
Con
Sir David Knox
Con
Sir Ivan Lawrence
Con
Sir Edward Leigh
Gainsborough
Con
Sir James Lester
Con
Sir David Lidington
Con
Lady Olga Maitland
Con
Paul Marland
Con
Mr David Martin
DUP
Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown
Con
Iain Mills
Con
Sir Roger Moate
Con
Sir Fergus Montgomery
Con
David Nicholson
Con
Lord Onslow of Woking
Con
James Pawsey (Sponsor)
Con
Mrs Elizabeth Peacock
Con
Lord Pickles
Con
William Powell
Con
Tim Rathbone
Con
Graham Riddick
UUP
Mr William Ross
Con
Mr Andrew Rowe
Con
Sir Nicholas Scott
Con
Mr David Shaw
Con
Sir Giles Shaw
Con
Sir Roger Sims
Con
Sir Trevor Skeet
UUP
The Rev Martin Smyth
Con
Roy Thomason
Con
Sir Donald Thompson
Con
Sir Malcolm Thornton
LD
Peter Thurnham
Con
Sir Cyril Townsend
Con
Sir Gerard Vaughan
Con
Gary Waller
Con
Mr Nigel Waterson
Con
Sir John Whittingdale
Maldon
Con
Ann Winterton
Con
Sir Nicholas Winterton

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