Welfare Reform Bill

Amendment 75 75: After Clause 3, insert the following new Clause— "Jobseeker’s allowance sanction regime where suitable childcare is not available (1) The Jobseekers Act 1995 (c. 18) is amended as follows. (2) In section 20 (exemptions from section 19), after subsection (1), insert— "(1A) Nothing in section 19, or in regulations under that section, shall be taken to prevent payment of a jobseeker’s allowance unless the Secretary of State has shown that lack of suitable childcare for children for whom the claimant is responsible was not the reason that the claimant falls within subsection (5) or (6) of section 19. (1B) In deciding what is suitable childcare for a particular child or children the Secretary of State must have regard to the reasonable views of the claimant as to what childcare would be suitable in their child or children’s case."."