PARLIAMENTARY EARLY DAY MOTION
BASIC INCOME (19 January 2016)

Motion Details

That this House notes the growing crisis of low pay and precarity in a labour market increasingly characterised by casualised forms of employment that offer little in the way of pay, predictable hours or long-term security; further notes the evident inability of our bureaucratically costly social security system, with its dependence on means-testing and often arbitrary sanctions, to provide an adequate income floor; believes that a Basic Income, an unconditional, non-withdrawable income paid to everyone, has the potential to offer genuine social security to all while boosting entrepreneurialism and the creation of small businesses; welcomes the ongoing exploration of the concept of a Basic Income by the thinktank Compass, the innovation charity Nesta, the Royal Society of Arts, and others; further welcomes the planned practical experiments in Finland and the Netherlands; and calls on the Government to fund and commission further research into the possibilities offered by the various Basic Income models, their feasibility, their potential to guarantee additional help for those who need it most, and how the complex economic and social challenges of introducing a Basic Income might be met.

Sponsored by:
Caroline Lucas (Green Party)

EDMS Sponsor By Party

Party
Votes
%
 
Scottish National Party
21
60%
 
 
Independent
6
17%
 
 
Labour
6
17%
 
 
Green Party
1
3%
 
 
Social Democratic & Labour Party
1
3%
 
Sponsor List (35 sponsors)
Party
Member
Constituency
SNP
Ms Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh
SNP
Mhairi Black
Lab
Mr Ronnie Campbell
SNP
Joanna Cherry
SNP
Ronnie Cowan
SNP
Angela Crawley
Lab
Mr Jim Cunningham
Ind
Geraint Davies
SNP
Martyn Day
SNP
Stuart Blair Donaldson
Ind
Margaret Ferrier
SNP
Patricia Gibson
Lab
Mr Roger Godsiff
SNP
Neil Gray
SNP
Drew Hendry
Ind
Mr Stephen Hepburn
Ind
Kelvin Hopkins
Lab
Dr Rupa Huq
Ealing Central and Acton
SNP
George Kerevan
SNP
Chris Law
Dundee Central
Green
Caroline Lucas (Sponsor)
Ind
Angus Brendan MacNeil
SNP
Callum McCaig
SDLP
Dr Alasdair McDonnell
SNP
Anne McLaughlin
SNP
Dr Paul Monaghan
SNP
John Nicolson
SNP
Steven Paterson
Lab
Yasmin Qureshi
Bolton South and Walkden
Lab
Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick
SNP
Tommy Sheppard
SNP
Chris Stephens
SNP
Alison Thewliss
Ind
Michelle Thomson
SNP
Corri Wilson

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