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Debate on bill on Monday, 24 July 2006, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Hutton of Furness. The answering member was Lord Hammond of Runnymede.

Welfare Reform Bill

Welfare Reform Bill. Second reading debate agreed to on question. Programme motion for proceedings in Committee, on Report and Third reading agreed to on question (formal). Carry over motion agreed to on question (formal). Queens recommendation having been signified, Money resolution agreed to on question (formal). Ways and means resolution agreed to on question (formal).

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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
449 c616-707 
Session
2005-06
Department
Department for Work and Pensions
Legislative stage
Second reading
Procedure
Programme motions
Carry-over motions
Money resolutions
Ways and means resolutions
Queen's recommendation
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 449 c645 (Link to this contribution) Order. I remind hon. Members that Mr. Speaker has imposed a 12-minute limit on speeches by Back Benc...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 449 c616-7 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. The reforms in the Bill set a new direction...
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Gordon Marsden | 449 c617 (Link to this contribution) My constituency is 15th in the table of constituencies with the highest number of incapacity benefit...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 449 c617 (Link to this contribution) I agree that that is true. However, we are making steady progress in bringing to the attention of em...
Mark Pritchard | 449 c617 (Link to this contribution) How will the Bill help the unemployed in Shropshire? In the past year unemployment in the county has...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 449 c617-8 (Link to this contribution) Unemployment is a lot lower than it used to be, when the Conservative Government were in office. Lab...
Tony Lloyd | 449 c618 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend knows that I support the Bill. Will he accept that this is a unique opportunity...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 449 c618 (Link to this contribution) I hope we will see that later. Certainly, it has been indicated so far that Opposition parties broad...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 449 c637 (Link to this contribution) What the hon. Lady says is self-evidently true. There are real as well as financial constraints, but...
Anne Begg | 449 c637 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that resources are not just money and not necessarily merely Governmen...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 449 c638-9 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. Perhaps I can provide some grounds for optimism by explaining my ...
Baroness Browning | 449 c638 (Link to this contribution) On the issue of sub-contracting to so-called niche or specialist providers, at the moment, the syste...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 449 c638 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an excellent point, and he is right that some of the smaller, more speciali...
Mike Weir | 449 c638;449 c638-9 (Link to this contribution) I am interested in what the hon. Gentleman has to say. Many voluntary sector providers, especially t...
Mark Pritchard | 449 c639-40 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my hon. Friend’s comments about the voluntary and not-for-profit sector. That proposal wou...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 449 c640-1 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. As the Chairman of the Select Committee rightly pointe...
Terry Rooney | 449 c639 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman not accept that, under the system, claimants have an initial interview as pa...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 449 c639 (Link to this contribution) The problem that I see is that there are two different functions—policing of the benefit rules and a...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 449 c632-3 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has a great deal of experience in this area and I have a great deal of respect for hi...
Michael Clapham | 449 c632 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend. I draw to his attention clause 55, schedule 6 and the referen...
Hugh Bayley | 449 c634 (Link to this contribution) May I respectfully remind the hon. Gentleman that when his party was in power, the number of people ...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 449 c633-4 (Link to this contribution) As the Secretary of State knows, we are generally supportive of the overall structure that was put f...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 449 c634-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman obviously was not listening. I said at the outset that we supported the package o...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 449 c636 (Link to this contribution) I was not planning to intervene, but the hon. Gentleman’s concerns about the roll-out of pathways th...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 449 c636-7 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Secretary of State and I am encouraged by the fact that he does not intend to h...
Kali Mountford | 449 c637 (Link to this contribution) I am listening carefully to the hon. Gentleman’s remarks, having talked to the private and voluntary...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 449 c637 (Link to this contribution) I would be happy to swap notes with the hon. Lady after the debate, but some of the larger providers...
Speaker | 449 c631 (Link to this contribution) Order. Before the Secretary of State answers, I should say that interventions are getting longer and...
Geraldine Smith | 449 c630-1 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend on the measures to deal with antisocial behaviour. Let me give h...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 449 c630 (Link to this contribution) That is obviously true, but we should be confident that we will succeed in meeting the ambitious tar...
Baroness Clark of Kilwinning | 449 c630 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that there seems to be a direct relationship between levels of emplo...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 449 c631-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has made a very important point and I look forward to working with her to ensure that...
Michael Clapham | 449 c632;449 (Not in Bound Volume) (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way on the question of part 4?
Lord Hutton of Furness | 449 c631 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way once more but not again, because I need to get on.
Joan Walley | 449 c631 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful. May I take the Secretary of State back to the issue referred to a couple of inte...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 449 c631 (Link to this contribution) I shall try to speed up, as well, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I am sure that my hon. Friend the Member for M...
Joan Walley | 449 c631 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Madeleine Moon | 449 c628 (Link to this contribution) Can my right hon. Friend explain who will decide whether an individual should receive personal payme...
Kali Mountford | 449 c628 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is describing a new system that will bring together those in different parts of...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 449 c628 (Link to this contribution) I can just point to the research and the outcomes in the pathfinder areas, and my hon. Friend might ...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 449 c629 (Link to this contribution) In pathways areas, access to help and support has not been confined to new claimants; in some parts ...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 449 c630 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his signal of support for the package of measures. In relati...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 449 c628-9 (Link to this contribution) We will have plenty of opportunities to listen to those concerns and to act on them where we think t...
Gordon Marsden | 449 c629 (Link to this contribution) I want to touch on the 1 million target, which, although ambitious, should be put in front of us. Ho...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 449 c629 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree with that, and some of the issues to which my hon. Friend refers will be picked u...
Baroness Brown of Silvertown | 449 c629 (Link to this contribution) Given that 60 per cent. of people come off incapacity benefit within the first year, is it realistic...
David Laws | 449 c625 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State clarify what aspect of non-compliance the private and voluntary-sector p...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 449 c625-6 (Link to this contribution) No sanctions would apply to health care provision. I think it would be entirely wrong to apply sanct...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 449 c626-7 (Link to this contribution) Yes, but it will not and we will make sure of that in the regulations. Part 2 takes forward our Gre...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 449 c626 (Link to this contribution) That is a very good question and I wish that I had the exact answer to it right now, but I will ensu...
Baroness Browning | 449 c626 (Link to this contribution) What is the position of people who are still receiving the old severe disablement allowance, which p...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 449 c627-8 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend knows, that is not in the Bill, but if he raised that matter again in Committee or...
Terry Rooney | 449 c627 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend knows that I have some doubts, but if people in rented accommodation suffer fro...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 449 c627 (Link to this contribution) Yes, we will certainly want to do that and it will feature in subsequent debate and the Minister for...
Andrew Love | 449 c627 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend rightly points to the success of the 18 pathfinder areas. One reason for their ...
John Robertson | 449 c622 (Link to this contribution) I know that my right hon. Friend is coming to an important part of his speech. Many people who have ...
Baroness Browning | 449 c622 (Link to this contribution) I notice that on several occasions the Secretary of State has referred to getting people back into w...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 449 c622 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I can give my hon. Friend that assurance. It will be important that, apart from having access t...
Joan Humble | 449 c623 (Link to this contribution) I want to explore a little further the issue of work-focused interviews and people with mental healt...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 449 c622-3 (Link to this contribution) It was my mistake not to have made that clear. I agree absolutely with what the hon. Lady says. We w...
Russell Brown | 449 c624 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Bill, which, as far as I can see, is based more on people’s abilities than on their di...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 449 c623-4 (Link to this contribution) I accept that there is fear about all these issues, and it is important that we dispel those fears. ...
Roger Berry | 449 c624 (Link to this contribution) I support the Bill, and hope that I shall have an opportunity to explain why. Given that the propos...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 449 c624 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely accept that. That is why, wherever possible, we try to take our services out to our cus...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 449 c624-5 (Link to this contribution) That is certainly the current arrangement, but, as my hon. Friend will know—I suspect that that is w...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 449 c621 (Link to this contribution) Not at the moment. At present, nine out of 10 people who come on to incapacity benefit expect to ge...
Mike Weir | 449 c621 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Lord Hutton of Furness | 449 c621 (Link to this contribution) Yes, of course. Part 1 provides for the new employment and support allowance, which will replace th...
Mark Francois | 449 c620-1 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for his courtesy in giving way. Clauses 41 and 42 refer to recovering...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 449 c620 (Link to this contribution) It is important that the personal capability assessment is more than a snapshot. It is especially di...
Madeleine Moon | 449 c620 (Link to this contribution) Bridgend has been an incredibly successful pathways to work pilot scheme area. Unemployment is 2.6 p...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 449 c620 (Link to this contribution) That is a genuine problem. However, it does not lend itself to any quick legislative fix. The Bill c...
Geraldine Smith | 449 c620 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that the public sector has a huge role to play in helping people get...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 449 c622 (Link to this contribution) We do all we can to bring an entitlement to benefit to the attention of such people, but I will refl...
Ann Cryer | 449 c621-2 (Link to this contribution) The National Audit Office has found that 77 per cent. of cancer patients are not given information a...
Tom Levitt | 449 c618-9 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend take this opportunity to congratulate the staff of the Glossop and Buxton ...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 449 c618 (Link to this contribution) That is precisely what pathways to work currently provides. It is true that the details of that are ...
David Marshall | 449 c619 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful that my right hon. Friend took the time to visit Glasgow and see at first hand the ter...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 449 c619 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to congratulate those staff. I visited the pathways to work scheme in Derbyshire a few mo...
Sadiq Khan | 449 c618 (Link to this contribution) Not the Liberal Democrats, surely.
Mike Weir | 449 c618 (Link to this contribution) I am interested in the Minister’s comments. I agree about the need to work with employers to get mor...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 449 c618 (Link to this contribution) I understand that that is in fact the case—[Interruption.] I should ask some of my hon. Friends to w...
Sadiq Khan | 449 c619 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend knows that more and more people cite mental health problems as the chief reason...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 449 c619 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right to draw attention to the problem facing many people in Glasgow who are on in...
Lord Hutton of Furness | 449 c619-20 (Link to this contribution) That is our intention. We have convened several groups involving mental health stakeholders to work ...
Hugh Bayley | 449 c645-6 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady should not pick among the figures. Any rise is a concern, and any reduction—there have...
Justine Greening | 449 c645 (Link to this contribution) I apologise for returning to the hon. Gentleman’s earlier point about stabilising the figures, but I...
Hugh Bayley | 449 c645 (Link to this contribution) Since 1997, Labour’s macro-economic policies, support for flexible labour markets and welfare to wor...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 449 c644-5 (Link to this contribution) That is one of the principal concerns. The Secretary of State has addressed that point and is well a...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 449 c642-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to you for that guidance, Mr. Deputy Speaker. It is remarkable how quickly we slip int...
Andrew Love | 449 c644 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman concerned that families will effectively be put out on the street and that chi...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 449 c641-2;449 c641 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman will allow me, I was about to say that the situation in the Netherlands is qui...
Speaker | 449 c642 (Link to this contribution) Order. Call me old-fashioned, and initials are all very well, but sometimes it is a good idea to say...
Terry Rooney | 449 c641 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman should tell the full story. For the first two years of sickness, the employer rem...
Danny Alexander | 449 c654-6 (Link to this contribution) I hear a ““yes”” from the Conservative Front Bench. Perhaps the hon. Gentleman is anticipating an oc...
Danny Alexander | 449 c653-4 (Link to this contribution) They could, but I shall certainly be keen to see a lot more details of the testing that the Governme...
Danny Alexander | 449 c652-3 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Minister for clarifying that point—[Interruption.] However, my hon. Friend the ...
Danny Alexander | 449 c652 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way to the Minister, so that he can tell us now.
Jim Murphy | 449 c652 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry for intervening on the hon. Gentleman, because I know that many hon. Members wish to part...
Karen Buck | 449 c657-8 (Link to this contribution) All-party consensus usually makes me a little nervous. On a topical note, the high degree of consens...
Justine Greening | 449 c658 (Link to this contribution) As a fellow London MP, I am listening to the hon. Lady with some interest, and she has a very good p...
Karen Buck | 449 c658 (Link to this contribution) Disturbingly, there seems to have been another outbreak of all-party consensus. That is absolutely t...
Danny Alexander | 449 c656 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend says, the word used was ““tiny””. What we will learn from the pilots I do not know...
Adrian Bailey | 449 c656-7 (Link to this contribution) Given the hon. Gentleman’s declared Liberal Democrat opposition to this policy, will he say whether ...
Danny Alexander | 449 c657 (Link to this contribution) As a good Liberal Democrat, I take the view that democratically elected councils should be in a posi...
Danny Alexander | 449 c656 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for that intervention, as it gives me the opportunity to point out that, as my colleag...
Andrew Love | 449 c656 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely correct that the rehabilitation courses suggested will need to be c...
Danny Alexander | 449 c656 (Link to this contribution) I am aware that the Government have said that there should be pilots for the measure. Ministers, alt...
Mike Weir | 449 c652 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman accept that one of the problems with the assessment process is that many peo...
Danny Alexander | 449 c652 (Link to this contribution) I agree. The hon. Gentleman makes an important point. It is a common complaint that the test takes i...
Lord Hammond of Runnymede | 449 c652 (Link to this contribution) There seems to be some confusion about whether the new personal capability assessments are to be pil...
Danny Alexander | 449 c652 (Link to this contribution) I have already expressed the view that this proposal should be subject to rigorous piloting. I hope ...
Ian Gibson | 449 c646 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will know that an important part of the assessment is that a doctor appointed by the ...
Hugh Bayley | 449 c646-8 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises an important point. When I became the Minister with those responsibilities, th...
Danny Alexander | 449 c648-51 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for City of York (Hugh Bayley). I agree with the st...
John Robertson | 449 c651 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that there should be rigorous testing of GPs and the way in which they...
Danny Alexander | 449 c651-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an important point, which the Minister should address. There is also a prob...
Jim Murphy | 449 c704-5 (Link to this contribution) The Government agree. That is not our intention. We will fully invest in pathways so that it can be ...
Danny Alexander | 449 c704 (Link to this contribution) Before the Minister leaves the subject of pathways to work, will he address the questions raised on ...
Jim Murphy | 449 c703-4 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention, but pathways has shown that folk with mental health il...
David Ruffley | 449 c699 (Link to this contribution) This problem has particular relevance—[Interruption.] The Secretary of State may not think that the ...
David Ruffley | 449 c699 (Link to this contribution) I am very happy to give way to my hon. Friend.
Jim Murphy | 449 c702-3 (Link to this contribution) I welcomed the tone and content of the speeches that we heard from hon. Members on both sides of the...
Lynne Jones | 449 c703 (Link to this contribution) I share my hon. Friend’s praise for the pathways to work scheme, but does he share my concerns that ...
Justine Greening | 449 c699 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted that my hon. Friend has given way; my persistence has paid off. Does he agree that on...
David Ruffley | 449 c699 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an excellent point, and I hope that the Minister will answer the question about...
Hugh Bayley | 449 c699 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
David Ruffley | 449 c699-702 (Link to this contribution) I need to make progress because time is short; I might give way in a minute. The Bill is meant to d...
Danny Alexander | 449 c669 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman share my concern about how the areas in which the local housing allowance is...
Janet Dean | 449 c673-5 (Link to this contribution) I certainly agree. Indeed, sometimes the person with a particular condition underestimates the probl...
Alison Seabeck | 449 c673 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is talking about the range of different effects that illnesses can have on different ...
Janet Dean | 449 c672-3 (Link to this contribution) I thank Ministers and officials for the intensive consultation that has taken place over recent week...
Greg Hands | 449 c671-2 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely and in principle that this is a very good reform. I am simply saying that in consti...
Sadiq Khan | 449 c670-1 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman think that, if tenants are thinking about the price that they have to pay fo...
Justine Greening | 449 c670 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a very good point. As recently as last Friday, I met the head teacher of my...
Greg Hands | 449 c669-70 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. He is right and he makes the point well; indeed, I ...
Greg Hands | 449 c668-9 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Kingswood (Roger Berry), who made a characteris...
Roger Berry | 449 c667-8 (Link to this contribution) I accept that, but I tabled parliamentary questions to all Departments asking how many disabled staf...
Danny Alexander | 449 c666 (Link to this contribution) I totally agree with the hon. Gentleman’s point, but it is not just a point about recycling money. I...
Roger Berry | 449 c664-6 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Tiverton and Honiton (Angela Browning). I congratulat...
Anne McGuire | 449 c667 (Link to this contribution) I can give my hon. Friend and the House the reassurance that the Office for Disability Issues has sa...
Roger Berry | 449 c666-7 (Link to this contribution) I would not suggest that there is never a net cost, but the fact is that enormous benefits come from...
Karen Buck | 449 c659-61 (Link to this contribution) I was not aware of that statistic, but it makes perfect sense in the context of what I am saying. ...
Sadiq Khan | 449 c658 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has spoken of problems that are specific to London. Is she aware that the number of r...
Baroness Browning | 449 c663-4 (Link to this contribution) Yes, my hon. Friend is exactly right. That is why the schemes that work for people with Asperger’s i...
Mark Pritchard | 449 c663 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes her points very well indeed. Does she agree that, if someone is employed and it...
Andrew Love | 449 c690-2 (Link to this contribution) I, too, warmly welcome the Bill for all the reasons that other Members have mentioned. I am particul...
Greg Clark | 449 c692-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for North-East Derbyshire (Natascha Engel) —and indeed the Secretary of State—referr...
Sammy Wilson | 449 c687-9 (Link to this contribution) This legislation, at least as it stands, does not apply to Northern Ireland. As one who the chatteri...
Paul Rowen | 449 c696-7 (Link to this contribution) Like many other hon. Members, I welcome the opportunity to debate some of the issues raised in the B...
John Robertson | 449 c694-6 (Link to this contribution) As a fellow Celt, the hon. Member for East Antrim (Sammy Wilson) will appreciate that I do not give ...
Justine Greening | 449 c693 (Link to this contribution) I am interested that my hon. Friend mentioned the city strategy. Does he agree that it is ironic tha...
David Ruffley | 449 c699 (Link to this contribution) A June Department for Work and Pensions consultation report confirms that existing claimants will be...
David Ruffley | 449 c697-9 (Link to this contribution) This has been a constructive debate marked by good intentions from all parts of the House. Members o...
Janet Dean | 449 c675 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely. It might be that some people with long-term conditions who would find it difficult...
Robert Syms | 449 c675-6 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to contribute to the debate, which has been extremely thoughtful and well considere...
Robert Syms | 449 c676-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a good point. My central point about the antisocial behaviour measure is th...
Paul Rowen | 449 c676 (Link to this contribution) Given that such people would have already been evicted once, does the hon. Gentleman agree that a mo...
Danny Alexander | 449 c679 (Link to this contribution) I agree about the barriers to work in the welfare system. Does the hon. Lady share my concern about ...
Anne Begg | 449 c678-9 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the tone of the debate on both sides of the House. It has been a positive discussion. That...
Speaker | 449 c681 (Link to this contribution) Order. Clearly a large number of hon. Members are seeking to catch my eye. If Members take considera...
Anne Begg | 449 c679-81 (Link to this contribution) It is important that work must always pay. That is why I always have been a very strong supporter of...
Natascha Engel | 449 c684-7 (Link to this contribution) I am a big fan of the proposals. It is not going too far to say that if we get it right, the Bill mo...
Mike Weir | 449 c681-4 (Link to this contribution) I should like to say at the outset that the Scottish National party and Plaid Cymru are not opposed ...
Danny Alexander | 449 c626 (Link to this contribution) In his answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Yeovil (Mr. Laws), the Secretary of State suggested t...
Greg Hands | 449 c656 (Link to this contribution) My impression has been that the Liberal Democrats have pretty much opposed every piece of antisocial...
Lynne Jones | 449 c675 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that one of the best ways of helping people to get work-ready and to overc...
Greg Hands | 449 c670 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend. It is important to be careful both in setting the areas and in defining exac...
Greg Clark | 449 c693-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for my hon. Friend’s intervention, which underlines that we perhaps need to be more am...
Sammy Wilson | 449 c629-30 (Link to this contribution) We broadly support these measures, but may I take the Secretary of State back to what he said about ...
Danny Alexander | 449 c656 (Link to this contribution) I did say it with a straight face, because it is true. However, the people who suffer from antisocia...
Subjects
Council tax benefits Disability Children Disability living allowance Appeals Disadvantaged Benefits rules Administration Anti-social behaviour Direct payments Housing benefit Fraud Employment Interviews Employment schemes Incapacity benefit Local government Medical examinations Overpayments Pilot schemes Poverty Payments Recipients Mental health Lone parents Pneumoconiosis Social security benefits Social Fund Young people Reform Sick pay Tenants Rents Take-up Unemployed people Pathways to work programme Employment and support allowance Housing allowances
Legislation
Welfare Reform Bill 2005-06 to 2006-07
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