Welfare Reform and Work Bill

My Lords, I added my name to this amendment. I do not want to add anything to what was said by my...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 24, 26 and 46, to which I have added my name along with tho...

My Lords, I rise to speak to my Amendment 25 in this group. Before I do so, I apologise to your L...

My Lords, I apologise that I was not able to speak at Second Reading. Had I done so, I would have...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 25 in the name of my noble friend Lord Listowel, to which my...

My Lords, until now, we have focused on measuring income by the HBAI statistics. But if we also m...

My Lords, I had not intended to speak in this debate. I am no social security expert, but I did h...

My Lords, I will speak in support of Amendments 24, 25 and 26. I know that everyone in this House...

My Lords, I am keen to follow up on the speech of the noble Baroness, Lady Stroud. She has asked ...

My Lords, I have much sympathy with the amendments in this group, but at the risk of appearing pe...

I can answer that. It is a general way across the world that social scientists compare family to ...

My Lords, this has been a thoughtful and extensive debate. Amendments 24 and 26 in the name of my...

I am sorry to intervene, but I wanted to ask the Minister whether he could answer a specific ques...

I thank my noble friend for that intervention. I doubt there is much that she does not understand...

My Lords, if we are taking a trip down memory lane, I remind the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie, that ...

Does the noble Lord accept that the issues he was talking about were quite properly to be include...

I shall address the amendments. I am sure the noble Lord will come back to me on some of these is...

And low earnings, my Lords. It says, in brackets, “low earnings”.

It referred to “low earnings” out of worklessness; that is why the brackets are there.

My Lords, that is one reading of it. I am sorry to trouble the Committee with this but the review...

I will come to the point about the in-work and the workless in a little while. Let me go on.

We are putting a lot of emphasis on full-time employment, but children in persistent or recurrent...

I can only provide the noble Baroness with these relative statistics on what is happening—where t...

My Lords, would the Minister agree that most of those who have taken part in this debate have no ...

I actually think the difference between us here is not as great as it might look. The division is...

Given what the Minister just said, will he now accept the case for keeping the income measures in...

Before the Minister replies, it might be helpful to remind him that the amendment on targets is i...

In practice, that is not the case. There are two sets of amendments in this group and Amendment 4...

My Lords, though the Minister makes a commitment, will he accept that, as is so often said in thi...

I agree that we should have this in legislation but can the Minister confirm that his personal co...

I think the noble Baroness, Lady Lister, will support me here but my memory is that the material ...

I am grateful to the noble Lord, and, in particular, to the noble Baroness, Lady Stroud, for rais...

I will write, because the issues that the noble Earl raises are genuinely important and difficult...

I am very grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken. It has been a remarkably well-informed and...

Moved by

Baroness Lister of Burtersett

31: Clause 4, page 5, line 16, at end insert—<...

My Lords, it is me again. I shall speak also to Amendments 36 to 45, 47 and 48 and make clear my ...

My Lords, I rise to speak to my Amendments 32, 33 and 49 in this grouping. Before doing so, I am ...

I shall speak to Amendments 32 and 33, which are in my name. It is essential to have a strategy—i...

My Lords, I shall speak to my Amendment 35. Observant noble Lords may have noticed that the last ...

My Lords, I rise to speak first to Amendment 31. Given the serious enthusiasm that the Government...

My Lords, I shall be brief because I know that we want to make progress today. I support wholehea...

I hope that what I have to say on this group of amendments will be a little more pleasing, althou...

I thank the Minister for reiterating that. I raised this at Second Reading and if he had answered...

I apologise to the noble Baroness for not dealing with the matter earlier, and I am pleased with ...

I asked a specific question about the future of the Child Poverty Unit. Would the Minister answer...

We will ensure that there is a full range of Civil Service support to drive forward the agenda. W...

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have spoken, particularly the right reverend Prela...

Moved by

Lord Patel

50: Clause 13, page 14, line 24, at end insert—

“( ) Subsec...

My Lords, my turn has come—rather sooner than I thought it would. In moving Amendment 50, I will ...

My Lords, this is an extremely important group of amendments. On behalf of the Labour Benches, my...

My Lords, we on these Benches strongly oppose the question that Clauses 13 and 14 stand part of t...

My Lords, I gave notice that I wish to oppose Clause 13 standing part of the Bill and I now wish ...

My Lords, I rise to support Amendment 50, moved by my noble friend Lord Patel. I also support the...

My Lords, my Amendment 51 would amend the Welfare Reform Act 2007 to include people with mental h...

My Lords, I speak to Amendment 52, the purpose of which is to remedy an extraordinary anomaly. We...

My Lords, I rise briefly to contribute to this debate. I am pleased to have the opportunity to do...

I understand the point the noble Lord is making, but I put it to him that the contradiction he po...

I entirely understand what the noble Lord said. That is indeed true. The point I am making is tha...

Would the noble Lord agree that the Department for Work and Pensions has always understood that d...

The noble Baroness is drawing me into a debate that I was not intending to enter into. My point w...

Surely with his health background the noble Lord is not saying that people who have been deemed t...

No, it is not—and I do not think that we should construe an incentive structure as being coercion...

My Lords, I have put my name to a number of amendments in this group and shall speak briefly to t...

My Lords, I will briefly speak to Amendment 52, to which I have put my name. In so doing I expres...

My Lords, the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health recently published a report which sugg...

My Lords, in introducing his amendment, I think that the noble Lord, Lord Patel, said quite early...

My Lords, reading the text of Clauses 13 and 14, as with so much legislation, does little to reve...

My Lords, I want to talk about the review of ESA, which I was involved in, along with my noble fr...

The noble Baroness, Lady Grey-Thompson, has made a very powerful case as to why cutting benefits ...

Clauses 13 and 14 remove the work-related activity component and limited capability for work elem...

I just read out the whole paragraph that that quote is taken from, which makes it quite clear tha...

I am not now looking at recommendations for action. I am just looking at what evidence we have th...

I am sorry to have been a little slow in coming back to the Minister; it took me a little while t...

That is the point that I just made: they could not determine the extent but they could determine ...

Could the Minister give us some assurance about the impact of the 60% reduction in the department...

That is a massive question. The short answer is that because universal credit is a much more effi...

My Lords, we have now been talking for about two hours and seven minutes, with some 17 speakers. ...