Welfare Reform and Work Bill

My Lords, my noble friend has made my task much easier because she laid the ground very well. I a...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 53D and 54, which are tabled in my name and that of my nobl...

My Lords, Amendment 55 seeks to ensure that the work-related requirements or benefit conditions u...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 56, which is in my name. Its purpose is to require Jobcentre...

My Lords, I encourage the Minister to at least agree to go away and think very seriously about th...

I shall speak to Amendment 55, which was so ably moved by the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher. Earli...

My Lords, I would like to come back to some of the points that we raised in earlier discussions a...

My Lords, I will briefly support what my noble friend and the right reverend Prelate said, becaus...

My Lords, I will be very brief. I am concerned, having heard noble Lords articulating their conce...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords for their contributions to this debate. The House understands t...

I want to put on record the fact that this all sounds just grand and everybody is going to be abs...

I thank the noble Baroness for that comment. I will reflect on what she said and if there is any ...

This is really important. Hearing the Minister speak, it sounds terribly complex. I thought that ...

It is not that it is becoming more complex; it is becoming more individualised, which also means ...

I hope your Lordships will forgive me if my intervention is incorrect—I am still learning the way...

The Government certainly listen with extreme care to all the views expressed by noble Lords. A lo...

Is the noble Baroness saying that she will put some of the points that have been raised into regu...

No, I am afraid I am not making that commitment. I am saying that there are further opportunities...

The noble Baroness mentioned earlier in her speech something that made me shudder: the very serio...

I am sorry, but I will have to get back to the noble Baroness. I urge noble Lords—and noble Baron...

I thank the Minister for her comprehensive response. I also thank all noble Lords who have taken ...