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Welfare Reform Bill

Clause 13 : Disability living allowance for blind claimants Debate on whether Clause 13 should stand part of the Bill. With the leave of the Committee, perhaps I can go through this extremely briefly. I will try not to use the word "conflation". I trust that it will be in order to cover Clause 13 in brief. The Committee will already know that my noble friend Lord McKenzie of Luton signalled on Second Reading the Government's intention that this clause should not stand part of the Bill. The Committee will also know that the reason for its current inclusion is the exuberance for change in another place. Although I commend their enthusiasm, they have left us with two clauses which to all intents and purposes strive to do the same thing. In our view, Clause 12 is the more technically correct of the two and therefore, for absolute clarity, I beg to disagree to the Motion that Clause 13 stand part of the Bill.