I have two points. First, do I understand that now, in contrast to the research done some months ago, a far lower proportion of those affected by the cap are in social housing? If so, where have they gone—the people who were in social housing a few months ago but who no longer are?
Going back to the original amendment that we are, in a way, discussing, my second, unconnected, question is that I have still not quite understood why it is inappropriate, when looking at the cap, to look at families with children separately from couples. We have the distinction between singles and couples. Surely, in any discussion of how a cap should operate, children are fundamental and families with children are fundamentally different from those who do not have children. Should that not somewhere come into the way in which the cap, and therefore this clause, are established?
Welfare Reform Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Bishop of Ripon and Leeds
(Bishops (affiliation))
in the House of Lords on Monday, 21 November 2011.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Committee proceeding on Welfare Reform Bill.
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