Welfare Reform and Work Bill

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendments 98 and 99, in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Ki...

My Lords, I will not detain the Committee long as I made clear the Opposition’s approach to the u...

My friend, the right reverend Prelate the Bishop of St Albans, cannot be here this evening. There...

My Lords, I have already set out why we believe the freeze of benefits is necessary so I will mov...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this short debate. As my noble friend on the...

Moved by

Baroness Sherlock

103A: Clause 16, page 15, line 7, at end insert “including...

My Lords, I rise to move Amendment 103A and to speak to Amendment 104AZA, which are in my name an...

My Lords, I shall speak to my Amendment 104, which is fairly self-explanatory. I am grateful to t...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 104A. I very much support the intentions of this Bill, but, ...

My Lords, I listened to most of the debate this evening and have heard the arguments on most of t...

My Lords, I will just ask a few questions slightly wider than the amendments tabled. The Minister...

My Lords, I start by responding to Amendment 103A, which would keep the waiting period at 13 week...

I have genuinely been listening to the debate. I believe the Minister did not answer one point ra...

Before the Minister replies, I have a few other questions; perhaps he can answer them together. I...

I do my best. On the independence of people providing the advice, it will be independent of those...

And the recovery?

Yes, I think that it is likely to be independent of the recovery. Yes—it is now. On the point abo...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for those answers and for the little glimpse that he has given us ...

Moved by

Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope

104AA: Clause 20, page 19, line 25, at end insert—...

My Lords, I hope not to detain the Committee for too long in the consideration of the administrat...

My Lords, I support the noble Lord, Lord Kirkwood. He was quite friendly towards me about raising...

I was hoping to catch my noble friend before he sat down, which I thought he was about to do.

I am grateful to my noble friend and I will come to that very point because it is crucial. I am n...

My Lords, this amendment requires certain financial and governance arrangements to be put in plac...

My Lords, that was a thoroughly enjoyable debate for this time of the evening. The amendment move...

The Minister has moved on rather rapidly. He brushed past the quite important issue of a monopoly...

I was able to say that the department considered value for money and had drawn up this clause to ...

Can we just pause there on the charity? I fully accept that Motability Operations is a company an...

There is a key issue about charities having to attract the best people when they are very substan...

One can understand the argument that the Minister has advanced in respect of the operations entit...

The amounts in the operations are of course much greater than in the charity. Maybe I am overinfl...

Would the Minister accept that there are people in the public sector who run very significant ope...

I should have made clear before that that is not departmental money; it is users’ money that we t...

Would the Minister just mind dealing with two residual points? One is about the transitional prot...

I will have to write on that latter point. The funding for the £2,000 comes from Motability itsel...

My Lords, the moment that the noble Lord, Lord Rooker, suggested to me that this was something wo...

Moved by

Earl Cathcart

104B: After Clause 20, insert the following new Clause—

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My Lords, the three amendments in this group all relate to private landlords who now account for ...

I declare an interest as a former chair of both a local housing committee and a housing associati...

I think that I caught the noble Baroness’s question. I do not think it is after eight weeks: I th...

I meant that the arrears might simply be a technical cash-flow issue, and not a legitimate arrear...

Yes, I imagine that it is before the eight weeks as well. As I said, I found the figure of 90% to...

My Lords, I support Amendment 104B in the name of the noble Earl, Lord Cathcart, to which I have ...

My Lords, I will speak briefly to my Amendment 104BB. I am grateful to the noble Earl and my nobl...

My Lords, Amendments 104BB in the names of the two noble Earls, Lord Listowel and Lord Cathcart, ...

These amendments relate to a number of housing issues, and I will deal with them in the order in ...

Ha!

All right, highly delighted.

Keep going.

Half of those arrears were accrued in the first four-week period. We discovered in the direct pay...

My Lords, can the Minister help us? It would be very useful to have this information before we co...

I will not resist the temptation of pointing out that there is no such thing as a bedroom tax; it...

My Lords, I am disappointed by my noble friend’s response to these three amendments. He seems to ...