WINTER FUEL ALLOWANCES FOR FAMILIES WITH DISABLED CHILDREN

Early day motion 1144, tabled 10 March 2008 by Alan Meale (Labour). Signed by 85 members.

That this House acknowledges the Every Disabled Child Matters campaign to secure from the Government a budgetary commitment to pilot a scheme to give winter fuel allowances to UK families with disabled children; notes evidence from research that shows two thirds of families in this category struggle to pay their fuel bills in the winter-time due to rising fuel costs and the need to maintain constant home temperature levels to ward off infections and bouts of restricted mobility caused directly by cold conditions; and calls upon the Government to respond positively to the campaign which would both relieve hardship and suffering whilst helping to lift up to 40,000 vulnerable families out of poverty.

Signatures by party: Labour 54, Liberal Democrat 15, DUP 6, Conservative 4, Social Democratic and Labour Party 3, Independent 1, Scottish National Party 1, UUP 1.