Early Day Motions

BISHOP OF BRADFORD AND WELFARE REFORM

EDM (Early Day Motion) 814: tabled on 04 December 2012

Tabled in the 2012-13 session.

This motion has been signed by 15 Members. It has not yet had any amendments submitted.

As this motion is using historical data, we may not have the record of the original ordering, in which case signatories are listed alphabetically.

Motion text

That this House applauds the Bishop of Bradford, the Right Reverand Nick Baines, and his fellow church leaders who have signed an open letter to the Prime Minister on the scandalous impact spending and welfare cuts are having on communities in the north of England; notes that 38,000 children in Bradford are living below the poverty line and that unemployment is continuing to rise; further notes that the so-called welfare reforms mean that the poorest people are getting poorer whilethe richest people are getting richer; and calls on the Prime Minister to follow the advice of the Bishop and his colleagues to stop stigmatising the poor and to take immediate measures to achieve a better balance in the UK economy between the south and north of the country.