My Right Honourable Friend, the Minister of State (Minister for Social Security and Disability) (The Rt Hon Sir Stephen Timms MP) has made the following Written Statement.

On 28 May 2026, DWP published statistics about two exercises which reviewed historic PIP claims for people affected by the MM Supreme Court judgment...

My Right Honourable Friend, the Minister of State (Minister for Social Security and Disability) (The Rt Hon Sir Stephen Timms MP) has made the following Written Statement.

On 28 May 2026, DWP published statistics about two exercises which reviewed historic PIP claims for people affected by the MM Supreme Court judgment...

On 28 May 2026, DWP published statistics about two exercises which reviewed historic PIP claims for people affected by the MM Supreme Court judgment or the LB Upper Tribunal decision.

MM judgment

The MM judgment was handed down in July 2019 and related to Daily Living activity 9 of the PIP...

On 28 May 2026, DWP published statistics about two exercises which reviewed historic PIP claims for people affected by the MM Supreme Court judgment or the LB Upper Tribunal decision.

MM judgment

The MM judgment was handed down in July 2019 and related to Daily Living activity 9 of the PIP...

Universal Credit is modernising the social security system, improving value for money for taxpayers and ensuring people are better supported to move into work where they can.

As I set out in my statement on 20^th April, the full transition from legacy benefits is due to complete by the end of...

Universal Credit is modernising the social security system, improving value for money for taxpayers and ensuring people are better supported to move into work where they can.

As I set out in my statement on 20^th April, the full transition from legacy benefits is due to complete by the end of...

My Right Honourable Friend, the Minister of State (Minister for Social Security and Disability) (The Rt Hon Sir Stephen Timms MP) has made the following Written Statement.

Universal Credit is modernising the social security system, improving value for money for taxpayers and ensuring people are better supported to move into work...

My Right Honourable Friend, the Minister of State (Minister for Social Security and Disability) (The Rt Hon Sir Stephen Timms MP) has made the following Written Statement.

Universal Credit is modernising the social security system, improving value for money for taxpayers and ensuring people are better supported to move into work...

Lords committee stage sixth day. Clauses 49 to 53 agreed to. Schedule 2 agreed to. Clauses 54 to 63 agreed to. Bill reported with amendments (HL Bill 136). (Part 2 of 2)

Lords committee stage sixth day. Clauses 49 to 53 agreed to. Schedule 2 agreed to. Clauses 54 to 63 agreed to. Bill reported with amendments (HL Bill 136). (Part 2 of 2)

My Lords, I will continue where other noble Lords left off. In particular, I commend the words of the noble Lord, Lord Faulks, who gave a very perceptive analysis of the problems that the noble

Baroness’s amendment revealed. As he said, the amendment is legally coherent, and I also note...

My Lords, I will continue where other noble Lords left off. In particular, I commend the words of the noble Lord, Lord Faulks, who gave a very perceptive analysis of the problems that the noble

Baroness’s amendment revealed. As he said, the amendment is legally coherent, and I also note...

My Lords, this is an interesting group with two distinct parts. I must confess that I am not immediately drawn to Amendments 184 and 185 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti. They would, in effect, incorporate the refugee convention into the domestic law of the UK, as...

My Lords, this is an interesting group with two distinct parts. I must confess that I am not immediately drawn to Amendments 184 and 185 in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti. They would, in effect, incorporate the refugee convention into the domestic law of the UK, as...

My Lords, I apologise for not being here right at the beginning. I hope no one will object if I none the less intervene, as I was here for the previous discussion. I think I understand the motivation behind Amendment 184, in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti....

My Lords, I apologise for not being here right at the beginning. I hope no one will object if I none the less intervene, as I was here for the previous discussion. I think I understand the motivation behind Amendment 184, in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti....

My Lords, I am perhaps not as warm towards this amendment as the noble Baroness, Lady Ludford, just was. It seems to me that it does give away its intention in the title,

“Primacy of the Refugee Convention”,

which fundamentally is an assault on whether we think Parliament has primacy in our...

My Lords, I am perhaps not as warm towards this amendment as the noble Baroness, Lady Ludford, just was. It seems to me that it does give away its intention in the title,

“Primacy of the Refugee Convention”,

which fundamentally is an assault on whether we think Parliament has primacy in our...

As a point of information, does the noble Lord realise that the title,

“Primacy of the Refugee Convention”

is directly adopted from the Conservative’s Asylum and Immigration Appeals Act 1993, as brought forward by the noble Lord, Lord Clarke of Nottingham, and implemented by the noble Lord, Lord Howard of Lympne?

As a point of information, does the noble Lord realise that the title,

“Primacy of the Refugee Convention”

is directly adopted from the Conservative’s Asylum and Immigration Appeals Act 1993, as brought forward by the noble Lord, Lord Clarke of Nottingham, and implemented by the noble Lord, Lord Howard of Lympne?

I was not aware of that, but I am not sure it changes my argument. As we have just discovered by listening to the debates about Article 31 of the convention, part of the issue here is that the interpretation of the words is contested, as we heard from the...

I was not aware of that, but I am not sure it changes my argument. As we have just discovered by listening to the debates about Article 31 of the convention, part of the issue here is that the interpretation of the words is contested, as we heard from the...

I thank the noble Lord for giving way a second time. My point is on not the big stuff around public opinion but the specific question of the danger of courts striking down the Immigration Rules. Does the noble Lord realise that the 1993 Act, which he said a moment...

I thank the noble Lord for giving way a second time. My point is on not the big stuff around public opinion but the specific question of the danger of courts striking down the Immigration Rules. Does the noble Lord realise that the 1993 Act, which he said a moment...

Parts of the Act are still in force, obviously, but, if what the noble Baroness says were true, there would be no need to have her amendment. The fact is that, if you say that the courts can decide that the convention—as they interpret it—can override legislation, that is damaging....

Parts of the Act are still in force, obviously, but, if what the noble Baroness says were true, there would be no need to have her amendment. The fact is that, if you say that the courts can decide that the convention—as they interpret it—can override legislation, that is damaging....

Before the noble Lord sits down, I think that he is misrepresenting me, but I will not linger too long over that. I have absolutely nothing at all against, for instance, this Government wanting to go to Strasbourg to seek to change the wording of Article 8 of the European...

Before the noble Lord sits down, I think that he is misrepresenting me, but I will not linger too long over that. I have absolutely nothing at all against, for instance, this Government wanting to go to Strasbourg to seek to change the wording of Article 8 of the European...

I had sat down but, given that the noble Baroness intervened on me, I will make a brief response since we have gone over the time—although that was largely to do with her rather than me.

I was not saying that the noble Baroness was in favour of imprecision; I was...

I had sat down but, given that the noble Baroness intervened on me, I will make a brief response since we have gone over the time—although that was largely to do with her rather than me.

I was not saying that the noble Baroness was in favour of imprecision; I was...

Let me go briefly through my quick summing up of what I have heard.

It seems that there are those who wish to leave things as they are; those who wish to have a more relaxed regime in terms of getting further from the convention; and those, such as the noble...

Let me go briefly through my quick summing up of what I have heard.

It seems that there are those who wish to leave things as they are; those who wish to have a more relaxed regime in terms of getting further from the convention; and those, such as the noble...

My Lords, I am sorry not to get in before the noble Lord, and I am grateful for the tolerance of the House. I will be as brief as I can. I support Amendment 203I in the name of my noble friend Lord Murray. He has explained the reasons for...

My Lords, I am sorry not to get in before the noble Lord, and I am grateful for the tolerance of the House. I will be as brief as I can. I support Amendment 203I in the name of my noble friend Lord Murray. He has explained the reasons for...