Cross-Party Motion Against Benefit Cuts: Write To Your MP!
This cross-party motion, or Early Day Motion, as it's known in Parliament, needs the support of MPs to pressure the Government to drop their harmful benefit cuts agenda.
Several Labour Party rebels, alongside MPs from other opposition parties, have already added their names in support of the motion, but the more MPs we can get signed up, the greater our chance of forcing the Government to change course.
No matter what party your MP is from, they can support the motion and call on the Government to rethink their plans.
What can you do?
1. Write to your MP
Contact your MP using 'Write to Them', which should give you their contact details.
2. Ask them to sign EDM 949 on reductions in welfare spending.
If you have time, please tell your MP why you care about this - it will help them understand the strength of public concern and opposition to the Government’s proposed cuts.
Just remember to ask your MP to add their name to EDM 949.
You can learn more about the EDM 949 on this Parliament website. Here is the full motion text:
"That this House believes that the welfare system should be based on dignity and respect; further believes that years of damaging austerity inflicted upon public services and welfare provision by previous Conservative Governments has brought our communities to breaking point, with people in receipt of health-related benefits already facing inordinate hardships as a result; notes that the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has called on the UK Government to take corrective measures to address the immense negative impact of welfare cuts made since 2010; is concerned that 50 per cent of people claiming Universal Credit who have limited capability for work are unable to heat their homes or pay their bills and have low food security; is further concerned that, according to Scope, an added 700,000 dDsabled households will be pushed into poverty by the cuts rumoured to be set out in the forthcoming Green Paper on welfare reform; considers there is no moral case for making these cuts, the impact of which would be catastrophic for millions of Disabled people; calls on the Government to address the root issues that lead to welfare claims, namely housing insecurity, poor quality jobs, huge wage inequality and a soaring mental health crisis; and further calls on the Government not to scapegoat Disabled people by cutting the welfare payments on which they depend."