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Welfare Reform Bill

My Lords, noble Lords have explained the situation more than adequately. It seems extraordinary, since we know that disabled children are already living in poverty and it has been a scandal for years, that we should be discussing the possibility that they should be even more deprived than they are at the moment. I hope that the noble Lord will look at this issue again. In looking for justifications for the policy, the idea that it should make transition easer for young disabled people moving into adulthood also seems extraordinary when many of those disabled children will not actually have the chance of reaching adulthood. I do hope that he will reconsider.