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Welfare Reform and Work Bill

Proceeding contribution from Lord Ramsbotham (Crossbench) in the House of Lords on Monday, 25 January 2016. It occurred during Debate on bills on Welfare Reform and Work Bill.

Moved by

Lord Ramsbotham

3: Clause 4, page 4, line 31, at end insert—

“Maternal nutrition: reporting obligation

A1ZA Maternal nutrition and poverty: reporting obligation

(1) The Secretary of State must publish and lay before Parliament a report containing data on—

(a) maternal nutrition in workless households in England;

(b) maternal nutrition in long-term workless households in England.

(2) The report must set out how the Secretary of State has interpreted the following terms for the purposes of the report—

(a) maternal nutrition;

(b) household;

(c) worklessness;

(d) long-term worklessness.

(3) The data contained in the report, and the provision about how the terms used in it are to be interpreted, must, so far as practicable, be derived from any relevant official statistics.

(4) The first report must be published before the end of the financial year ending with 31 March 2017.

(5) Later reports must be published before the end of each subsequent financial year.

(6) In this section “official statistics” has the meaning given by section 6(1) of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007.”

About this proceeding contribution

Reference

768 c1065 

Session

2015-16

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber
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