Early Day Motion (EDM) 500 is now open for MPs to sign. Has your MP signed? If not, a simple email may be all it takes.
Lorely Burt MP, tabled the EDM and has launched it with cross party support among Labour, Liberal Democrat and Conservative MPs. To date more than 50 have already signed!
Send an email to your MP now by clicking here. (if you are not sure who your MP is just enter your postcode and it will tell you)
Read the EDM below or click here to find it online (click the "Search" button and type in "500"). You can also check whether your MP has signed it yet.
Please send an email to your MP to remind them that 2005 is the year to Make Poverty History, and to sign EDM 500. Now is the time to support the call for this innovative form of development finance that would raise £3 billion each year to help lift millions of people from poverty.
Your email, as one of their constituents, could make the difference and prompt them to sign.
Since it will just take a few moments to do, please send them a message now.
EDM 500
STAMP DUTY ON STERLING CURRENCY TRANSACTIONS TO FUND INTERNATIONAL AID
Burt, Lorely
That this House is deeply concerned that thousands of men, women and children die from hunger and preventable diseases every day and that this is unacceptable when the technology, expertise and resources exist to eliminate poverty; welcomes the call from global leaders for an extra $50bn each year to pay for the UN Millennium Development Goals for the provision of clean water, healthcare and education to the world's most deprived people; notes that a simple stamp duty on currency transactions is technically possible and would bridge this funding gap; therefore calls on the Government to impose on sterling currency transactions a very small stamp duty of half of one hundredth of one percent (0.005%) to generate as much as £3 billion each year in extra revenue dedicated to international development; and strongly urges the Government, in this unprecedented year when the UK holds the presidency of the G8 and the EU, to play a leadership role in developing this powerful new income stream to help bring millions of people out of poverty.
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