Welfare Reform and Work Bill

My Lords, I support the amendment, which my noble friend Lady Campbell moved with great eloquence...

My Lords, I, too, support this amendment. As the noble Baroness, Lady Campbell, has said, in Comm...

My Lords, I, too, support the Government’s aim of getting people out of and back into employment ...

My Lords, in supporting the amendment so ably spoken to by my noble friend Lady Campbell, I will ...

My Lords, I apologise for not having taken an active part in Committee, for reasons outside my co...

My Lords, I, too, am happy to support the amendment of the noble Baroness, Lady Campbell. Althoug...

My Lords, perhaps I may intervene briefly to say a word about Amendment 42 in the name of the nob...

My Lords, I really was not expecting to speak today on this. We had asked that Amendment 43, on I...

My Lords, I add my support to the opening remarks of the noble Baroness, Lady Campbell. She said ...

My Lords, I support Amendments 1 and 42. I will not repeat what I said in Committee or what has a...

My Lords, I support the comments of the noble Baroness, Lady Meacher. In the case of minorities, ...

My Lords, I support the amendment of the noble Baroness, Lady Campbell. I thank the Minister for ...

My Lords, we support Amendment 1 for the reasons advanced with conviction by the noble Baroness, ...

My Lords, Amendment 1 would build on Clause 1, which sets out the Government’s commitment to repo...

My Lords, before the Minister sits down, perhaps he would help us by explaining what the technica...

Yes. The Secretary of State for the DWP has no power to make referrals into the health system. Th...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his reply to my amendment, which I shall come to in a moment. ...

Moved by

The Lord Bishop of Durham

2: Before Clause 4, insert the following new Claus...

My Lords, I start, as I began my speech in Committee, by recognising that everyone in this House ...

My Lords, I support the right reverend Prelate and thank him for moving this amendment, to which ...

My Lords, the right reverend Prelate has made a very convincing, strong argument for retaining in...

My Lords, on this kind of issue I am usually very much on the side of those who are sorry for tho...

My Lords, I wonder whether my noble friend is aware that of the children in poverty who we are di...

My Lords, very briefly, I support the amendment in the name of the right reverend Prelate the Bis...

My Lords, we on these Benches are fully supportive of Amendment 2, to which I have appended my na...

My Lords, Amendment 2 seeks to insert a new clause that would expand the annual report to include...

Before the Minister goes on to his next point, I am puzzled. He is going through the individual i...

The noble Baroness is making a presumption that the suite of four is self-reinforcing and that th...

The Minister says that the figures are independent. What if those producing them are under great ...

We have made this commitment to continue to publish the HBAI figures. They are national statistic...

If countries around the world are doing it in the same way, does that not suggest that it is the ...

We had this debate in Committee. We all measure this in the same way; we are the only country in ...

I thank the Minister for his very full response, for which I am grateful. If the amendment is tec...