PARLIAMENTARY EARLY DAY MOTION
BASIC INCOME (7 June 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, such as zero-hours contracts that offer little in the way of pay, predictable hours or long-term security; further notes the evident inability of our bureaucratic and costly social security system, with its dependence on means-testing and often arbitrary sanctions, to provide an adequate income floor; believes that a universal 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 such a basic income by the think tank Compass, the Royal Society of the Arts, the Citizen's Income Trust and others; further welcomes the planned practical experiments in Finland, the Netherlands and Canada; 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
23
61%
 
 
Labour
7
18%
 
 
Independent
4
11%
 
 
Social Democratic & Labour Party
2
5%
 
 
Green Party
1
3%
 
 
Plaid Cymru
1
3%
 
Sponsor List (38 sponsors)
Party
Member
Constituency
SNP
Ms Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh
SNP
Mhairi Black
SNP
Philip Boswell
SNP
Alan Brown
Lab
Mr Ronnie Campbell
SNP
Joanna Cherry
SNP
Ronnie Cowan
Lab
Sir David Crausby
SNP
Angela Crawley
SNP
Martyn Day
SNP
Martin Docherty-Hughes
SNP
Stuart Blair Donaldson
SDLP
Mark Durkan
Ind
Jonathan Edwards
Ind
Margaret Ferrier
SNP
Stephen Gethins
Arbroath and Broughty Ferry
Lab
Mr Roger Godsiff
SNP
Patrick Grady
SNP
Neil Gray
SNP
Drew Hendry
Lab
Dr Rupa Huq
Ealing Central and Acton
SNP
George Kerevan
Green
Caroline Lucas (Sponsor)
Ind
Angus Brendan MacNeil
SNP
Callum McCaig
SNP
Stewart Malcolm McDonald
SDLP
Dr Alasdair McDonnell
Ind
Natalie McGarry
Lab
Sir Alan Meale
SNP
Carol Monaghan
SNP
Dr Paul Monaghan
SNP
John Nicolson
Lab
Yasmin Qureshi
Bolton South and Walkden
Lab
Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick
PC
Liz Saville Roberts
Dwyfor Meirionnydd
SNP
Tommy Sheppard
SNP
Chris Stephens
SNP
Alison Thewliss

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