Welfare Reform and Work Bill

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendments 16 and 17 in my name and that of my noble friend Lord McK...

My Lords, we on these Benches also agree with kinship care as an adoption exemption. According to...

My Lords, my name is attached to Amendments 1 and 16 in this group. First, can I make an apology ...

My Lords, I, too, support these amendments, although as I have a debate tomorrow in the dinner br...

My Lords, I support the amendments in this group, because Clause 11 removes eligibility for the c...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Drake. The House owes her a debt be...

My Lords, I will say a few words about kinship care. I remember the Minister speaking twice on th...

My Lords, if I were the Minister, I would grasp with alacrity the olive branch—or is it fig leaf?...

My Lords, I want to speak extremely briefly because the speech I might have made has already been...

I thank noble Lords for some very good speeches. To pick up the point made by the noble Lord, Lor...

Does that mean that the Minister will give satisfaction to us before Report?

No, it means that I am not in a position to provide any satisfaction and, by definition, that pos...

My Lords, I am sorry to interrupt the Minister, but may I ask him about the difference between th...

That is the point of these amendments, which I am in the process of dealing with, so I will provi...

At Second Reading, when the Minister talked about the exemptions that the Government have made cl...

If I misspoke at Second Reading, I apologise to the House. I was saying that they were a similarl...

My Lords, the Minister made much of the financial probity argument and said that tax credit expen...

I think the facts that the noble Baroness is comparing are somewhat spurious. Working age IS was ...

Would the Minister like also to give us the figures for the number of self-employed people who ha...

Of course, one of the most interesting things about the way tax credit has moved is that people w...

My Lords, I wonder whether the Minister can help me. When I asked what assessment the Government ...

It is actually extraordinarily hard to draw up a system. Those choices are different for differen...

Has the Minister responded to the question about the impact assessment? I am sorry, which page is...

Again, all I can say is that the impact assessment looks at all the impacts. The costs and saving...

Perhaps I may say this to the Minister. That is why I was looking back at the reasoning for this ...

Clearly there is a difference between the voluntary and involuntary taking on of children, whethe...

First, I thank the Minister for his response, in which he said clearly that he is listening to th...

I know that the noble Earl is very concerned in this area of the care leaver and I understand exa...

My Lords, I understand where the noble Earl, Lord Listowel, is coming from and, indeed, I talked ...

My understanding is that when we do these assessments we look at all of these aspects. But I have...

My Lords, I am sure we are grateful for the very thoughtful contributions made in Committee and f...

Moved by

Baroness Manzoor

2: Clause 11, page 13, line 12, at end insert “, or

“...

My Lords, in moving Amendment 2, I shall speak to Amendments 4, 7 and 12 in my name. As we have h...

My Lords, my name is attached to Amendments 4 and 12. It is a privilege to follow the eloquent no...

My Lords, I highlight two particularly vulnerable groups in my Amendments 5, 6, 13 and 14, groups...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 15, 18 and 20, which are in my name and that of my noble fr...

My Lords, I think the Minister must by now be feeling pretty miserable at the wretched nature of ...

My Lords, I had not intended to take part in this debate but it seems to me, listening to the nob...

My Lords, I hate to intervene, but I point out that the evidence to which my noble friend referre...

My Lords, I thought the House might just like an issue to be clarified. I have the document with ...

My Lords, I hesitate to challenge the noble Baroness, but if she looks on pages 19 and following ...

I can clarify that again but it is here, quite clearly. Perhaps we can discuss this later.

Can the noble Baroness say which page she is referring to?

Page 18.

I thank noble Lords again for another interesting debate, to which I have listened very attentive...

Just to clarify, I was talking in this case about the exemption for multiple births, although it ...

I am trying to think of another example because, as the noble Baroness knows, we are trying to in...

My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for his responses. I am reminded by what he said of the i...

Is the noble Earl, whom I greatly respect, aware that Professor Deaton received earlier this year...

I thank the noble Lord for drawing that to my attention and I shall make it my business to read t...

Taking the noble Earl’s points in order, we need to have good strategies for care leavers. Clearl...

When the Minister does that, will he look at the study circulated to most noble Lords which speci...

We can cut through debating this by getting the facts, which I shall get to noble Lords.

My Lords, this has been a fascinating and passionate debate and I thank noble Lords who have take...