PARLIAMENTARY EARLY DAY MOTION
Support for the self-employed (24 March 2020)

Motion Details

That this House commends the Government’s measures to support businesses and employees during the covid-19 outbreak; notes however that those measures still leave the country’s 5 million self-employed people with no reliable safety net; further notes that one in four people in South Lakeland is self-employed; recognises that each day the Government fails to act many of those people get closer to having irreparable damage inflicted on their livelihoods; and calls on the Government to create a Self-Employed Income Guarantee that will be effective immediately with the Government guaranteeing self-employed people 80 per cent of their average incomes over the last three years up to a cap of £35,000.

Sponsored by:
Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat)

EDMS Sponsor By Party

Party
Votes
%
 
Liberal Democrat
3
50%
 
 
Democratic Unionist Party
1
17%
 
 
Labour
1
17%
 
 
Scottish National Party
1
17%
 
Sponsor List (6 sponsors)
Party
Member
Constituency
LD
Wendy Chamberlain
North East Fife
SNP
Allan Dorans
LD
Tim Farron (Sponsor)
Westmorland and Lonsdale
Lab
Lloyd Russell-Moyle
DUP
Jim Shannon
Strangford
LD
Jamie Stone
Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross

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