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Debate on bill on Tuesday, 13 September 2011, in the House of Lords, led by Lord Freud. The answering member was Lord McKenzie of Luton.

Welfare Reform Bill

Welfare Reform Bill. Lords second reading debate. Agreed to on question.

Secondary information

Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
730 c628-742 
Session
2010-12
Department
Department for Work and Pensions
Legislative stage
Second reading
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Baroness Falkner of Margravine | 730 c698-701 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I declare an interest as a non-executive director of Hyde Housing Association, as describe...
Baroness Stowell of Beeston | 730 c695-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will limit my remarks to the parts of the Bill relating to the proposed universal credit...
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Baroness Gale | 730 c697-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will be focusing my speech on the impact that the provisions of the Bill will have on pe...
Baroness Healy of Primrose Hill | 730 c703-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I too would like to raise an issue of grave concern to the families of adults with an auti...
Baroness Grey-Thompson | 730 c701-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I understand the need for reform of the welfare system, and I support a system that is mor...
Lord Boswell of Aynho | 730 c706-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I welcome the Welfare Reform Bill. I believe that it represents significant progress in so...
Baroness Flather | 730 c705-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I found this Bill very difficult to understand. I have no experience in this field, and I ...
Baroness Meacher | 730 c672-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate the noble Lord, Lord Feldman of Elstree, on his very pertinent maiden speec...
Baroness Sherlock | 730 c674-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I want to examine the extent to which the Bill meets its objectives, particularly for fami...
Lord Feldman of Elstree | 730 c670-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am delighted to rise for the first time in your Lordships’ House in support of this Bill...
Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope | 730 c683-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Turner of Camden; her experience is al...
Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville | 730 c644-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I congratulate my noble friend the Minister on the clarity with which he introduced and ex...
Lord Kennedy of Southwark | 730 c730-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as noble Lords on these Benches have said, the Opposition support many of the broad princi...
Lord McKenzie of Luton | 730 c732-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this has been a powerful, knowledgeable and passionate debate, as it should be, given the ...
Lord Freud | 730 c736-42 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank everybody who has spoken today. There have been some truly excellent contributions...
Lord Best | 730 c729-30 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my set-piece speech was going to cover a number of housing issues. To my slight surprise, ...
Baroness Lister of Burtersett | 730 c726-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, as a member of the night shift, I will inevitably cover issues already eloquently discusse...
Baroness Gardner of Parkes | 730 c725-6 (Link to this contribution) There is nothing left to say on this Bill. Everyone has made the most marvellous, wide-ranging state...
Lord Morris of Handsworth | 730 c690-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we can all agree that an effective welfare system must be designed to promote the basic we...
Baroness Thomas of Winchester | 730 c649-51 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I begin by saluting my noble friend Lord Freud and his colleagues, who have been determine...
Lord Rix | 730 c651-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is important for the Government to recognise that any reform of the welfare system and ...
Lord Knight of Weymouth | 730 c720-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I start by paying tribute to the ambition of the Minister and his Bill. I know that the Mi...
Lord Whitty | 730 c688-90 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, on the one hand, the Government must be gratified that they have received almost universal...
Lord Patel | 730 c691-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, before I come to my main points, I should like to make a brief comment on something that t...
Baroness Donaghy | 730 c693-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall concentrate on the potential impact of the Bill on self-employed people, with perh...
Baroness Howe of Idlicote | 730 c686-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I join the noble Lord, Lord Kirkwood, in his concern that the traditional practice of reas...
Baroness Campbell of Surbiton | 730 c658-61 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we have a mighty task on our hands. I apologise for not staying for the marathon of this d...
Baroness Wilkins | 730 c661-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, declare an interest as I have received DLA since its inception. Luckily, having re...
Baroness Tyler of Enfield | 730 c656-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support many of the objectives of the Bill, in particular the Government’s stated aim of...
Lord Mackay of Clashfern | 730 c653-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have great admiration for the Secretary of State and his Ministers, not least for my nob...
Baroness Morgan of Drefelin | 730 c654-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, like many in this House, I, too, support welfare reform. I accept that it is very difficul...
Lord Freud | 730 c628 (Link to this contribution) That the Bill be read a second time.
Lord Skelmersdale | 730 c712-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am rather tempted to start my speech with that part of his speech that the noble Lord, L...
Lord Freud | 730 c628-33 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not think that a single Member of this Chamber could stand up and say they truly beli...
Lord Wigley | 730 c663-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hope the Minister heard and took to heart the two immensely informed contributions from ...
Bishop of Leicester | 730 c642-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it was Archbishop William Temple, one of Beveridge’s key associates, who first coined the ...
Baroness Hollis of Heigham | 730 c646-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I very much support the principle of universal credit. It was put in the ““too difficult””...
Lord German | 730 c637-40 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, you might expect me to take a slightly different tone about a Bill which has at its heart ...
Baroness Hollins | 730 c640-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, there are winners and losers in life. Usually it is those who already have most who are th...
Baroness Hayter of Kentish Town | 730 c633-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the Minister for opening the debate and I look forward, as does the rest of the Ho...
Baroness Turner of Camden | 730 c681-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this is a very complicated Bill. It is not very easy to understand since so much detail is...
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon | 730 c680-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I welcome this Bill and there is a sound premise in what I say. It has noble intent; it se...
Lord Bilimoria | 730 c677-80 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, from 1999 to 2001, I served on the New Deal Task Force of the then Department for Educatio...
Lord Low of Dalston | 730 c668-70 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this is a very important Bill. It could well be a Bill which defines the coalition every b...
Baroness Stedman-Scott | 730 c665-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I begin by declaring an interest as CEO of the employment charity Tomorrow’s People which ...
Lord Touhig | 730 c666-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will focus my remarks on Part 4 of the Bill, which will bring in a new benefit called th...
Lord Sheikh | 730 c718-20 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this Bill is one of the boldest attempts to repair and restructure a welfare system that h...
Baroness Finlay of Llandaff | 730 c723-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, there have been many admirable speeches tonight. They must have given the Minister much fo...
Baroness King of Bow | 730 c714-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we all believe in welfare reform, making work pay and simplifying the benefits system; and...
Lord McAvoy | 730 c708-10 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we have had a number of really excellent contributions from very experienced people this e...
Earl of Listowel | 730 c710-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in the brief time available, I should like to address the principle of universal credit, t...
Baroness Murphy | 730 c716-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, having worked so happily with the noble Baroness, Lady King of Bow, in east London I am so...
Subjects
ICT Disability Disability living allowance Devolved matters Childcare Benefits rules Carers Cancer Autism Department for Work and Pensions Housing benefit Learning disability Incapacity benefit Mental illness Private rented housing Universal credit Reform Revenue and Customs Social security benefits Social security Social Fund Young people Unemployment benefits Social rented housing Rents Employment and support allowance Mobility Work capability assessment Personal independence payment Parkinson's disease Personal budgets
Legislation
Welfare Reform Bill 2010-12
Link
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