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Welfare Reform Green Paper

Ministerial statement on Tuesday, 24 January 2006, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Hutton of Furness.
Statement on the welfare reform green paper.

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Reference

441 c1305-21 

Session

2005-06

Department

Department for Work and Pensions

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

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A new deal for welfare: empowering people to work.
Tuesday, 24 January 2006
Command papers
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Lord Hutton of Furness | 441 c1317 (Link to this contribution) No, I am not going to set annual targets. We are not going to do that. This programme of investment ...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 441 c1317 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his comments. We should wait to see what the employment advisers...

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Howard Stoate | 441 c1317 (Link to this contribution) May I tell my right hon. Friend as a GP that, by the time someone has been off work for six months, ...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 441 c1318 (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to the hon. Lady’s extensive knowledge and experience in this area. I would be happy t...
Baroness Browning | 441 c1317-8 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has repeatedly referred to getting people back into work, but how will he dea...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 441 c1318 (Link to this contribution) I largely agree with my right hon. Friend. This is not a punitive package of measures; I think that ...
Michael Meacher | 441 c1318 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend recognise that there are considerable differences between north and south?...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 441 c1318 (Link to this contribution) The national roll-out of pathways to work will certainly be focused on ensuring quality, and outcome...
Mike Weir | 441 c1318 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has mentioned rolling out pathways to work throughout the UK by 2008. Many di...
Madeleine Moon | 441 c1319 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the statement, as the pathways to work project in my constituency, organised largely throu...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 441 c1311-2 (Link to this contribution) May I start by welcoming the hon. Gentleman’s commitment to work with the Government to bring abo...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 441 c1308-11 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Secretary of State for letting me have an advance copy of his statement and the...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 441 c1312-3 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to my hon. Friend for raising those points. I agree that people with a disability...
Terry Rooney | 441 c1312 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend on his very encouraging and positive statement. Does he agree th...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 441 c1305-8 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr. Speaker, I wish to make a statement on the Government’s Green Paper, ““A new de...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 441 c1314 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his support for the direction of travel that we set out in t...
David Laws | 441 c1313-4 (Link to this contribution) May I also thank the Secretary of State for giving me advance sight of his statement? We share with ...
Peter Kilfoyle | 441 c1314-5 (Link to this contribution) Given that last year the Secretary of State’s Department closed the biggest employer in my constitue...
Andrew Smith | 441 c1316 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for his kind remarks a few moments ago. I welcome the measured way in w...
Iris Robinson | 441 c1316 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State agree that many people would love to be back at work, but the Government...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 441 c1315-6 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend. Yes, we are prepared to consider the issues to which he has r...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 441 c1315 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Secretary of State on the resolve that he has shown today, noting that he does so...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 441 c1315 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman—yes, we do, and we set out three specific proposals in the...
Lord Young of Cookham | 441 c1315 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Secretary of State’s statement, but does he accept that on occasions there will be a g...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 441 c1315 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right: the Department is currently undergoing a major reorganisation of its Jobcen...
Lord Goodman of Wycombe | 441 c1317 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State has set himself the admirable aim of getting 1 million people off IB in 10 ye...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 441 c1316-7 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend, and his decision to roll out pathways has given us the opport...
Philip Dunne | 441 c1320-1 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State said earlier that he acknowledges that the longer people are on incapacity be...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 441 c1320 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I can give my hon. Friend that assurance. The reforms that we are making are designed to take o...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 441 c1321 (Link to this contribution) No, there will be no targets. We are not going to follow that approach. It would be disreputable to ...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 441 c1321 (Link to this contribution) Yes, we are certainly talking to the training and employment providers about precisely that issue, w...
Ronnie Campbell | 441 c1321 (Link to this contribution) The one thing that worries me is the position of older people—particularly those who have worked all...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 441 c1321 (Link to this contribution) The Green Paper sets out the broad direction of travel that we intend to take, and already we have h...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 441 c1321 (Link to this contribution) There will be no targets in the way that my hon. Friend suggested. I want to work with organisations...
Paul Rowen | 441 c1321 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the statement that the Secretary of State has made, and he is right that unemployment, inc...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 441 c1320 (Link to this contribution) In any welfare system, it is important—the right hon. Gentleman will not want to argue against this—...
David Heathcoat-Amory | 441 c1320 (Link to this contribution) This Green Paper has the very general title of ““A new deal for welfare””, so why does it not tackle...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 441 c1319-20 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is exactly right and I pay tribute to his work in this area. It is very important tha...
Roger Berry | 441 c1319 (Link to this contribution) Obviously, we shall all want to look at the details in the Green Paper, but in view of previous deba...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 441 c1319 (Link to this contribution) I can only assume that the hon. Gentleman has not read the Green Paper, because we are not cutting i...
Peter Law | 441 c1319 (Link to this contribution) Coming from south Wales, from a very depressed constituency, as I do, I ask the Secretary of State h...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 441 c1319 (Link to this contribution) The education maintenance allowance has, I hope, been an important contribution to securing what my ...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 441 c1316 (Link to this contribution) I respect the hon. Lady’s argument and the point that she has made. The changes that we have made ha...
Anne Begg | 441 c1320 (Link to this contribution) There will perhaps be a collective sigh of relief following the Green Paper’s publication today. At ...

Subjects

Disability
Disability living allowance
Benefits rules
Housing benefit
Employment
Eligibility
Health and safety
Incapacity benefit
Mental illness
Pilot schemes
Older workers
Lone parents
Social security benefits
Visual impairment
Working conditions
Reform

Contains statistics

Yes

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