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Welfare Reform Bill

At end insert ““but do propose Amendment 3D as an amendment in lieu”” 3D: Clause 11, page 5, line 21, at end insert— ““(3A) The Secretary of State shall commission an independent review (““the review””) of the impact of the provisions of sections 11 and 68 of this Act. (3B) The review shall assess the impact of those provisions on— (a) families; (b) the incidence of poverty;(c) the incidence of homelessness;(d) levels of underoccupancy;(e) local authority resources;(f) rent arrears; and(g) any other consequences of sections 11 and 68 of this Act which the Secretary of State or the reviewer consider should be covered by the review. (3C) The review will commence six months after sections 11 and 68 of this Act come into force (or, if the provisions of sections 11 and 68 comes into force on different dates, six months after the latter of those provisions comes into force). (3D) The review will conclude with the making of a report within six months of the review commencing; and shall be repeated one year after it commenced. (3E) Reports made under subsection (3D) shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament."