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Welfare Reform Bill

Proceeding contribution from Baroness Sherlock (Labour) in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 1 November 2011. It occurred during Debate on bills and Committee proceeding on Welfare Reform Bill.
I am not sure I can, frankly, but maybe Hansard can. I talk too quickly even for myself sometimes. The Minister was kind enough to say in response to my noble friend that there were no targets that were designed to incentivise an increase in the number of sanctions. Are there any targets, performance indicators, measures or benchmarks—he will know the language better—that would have the effect of creating an incentive to increase the number of sanctions? The Minister probably knows what I am getting at; one does not have to be directly incentivised to sanction people. If, for example, there were pressure on the department to reduce either the number of people claiming certain benefits or the cost of the programme element of the budget and therefore the cost of those benefits, one way to achieve that might be sanctions. I am not suggesting that they would do so but inevitably, once there are measures, someone responds. There might be other ways of doing that. Could he answer that for us?
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
731 c420GC 
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords Grand Committee
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