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Welfare Reform Bill

Proceeding contribution from Baroness Sherlock (Labour) in the House of Lords on Wednesday, 23 November 2011. It occurred during Debate on bills and Committee proceeding on Welfare Reform Bill.
This is the last time I shall intervene, I promise—and that is a strong promise rather than a weak one, I can assure the Minister. I understood him to be saying that the state does not want to intervene more than it has to in the financial affairs of families, and I can see that and agree with it, but if putting different amounts of money into different subsets of a bank account is going to encourage people to budget, somebody is still going to have to go through the process of working out which elements of the total award relate to different elements—children, rent et cetera—and deal with the complicated bit of that, which is understanding how tapers apply. When the Minister thinks about this again, will he consider whether the assessment can be for a household but when you get the answer, you simply split the amount and give it in two different directions? Is that not much easier than the Minister getting embroiled with the FSA or the FCA and complicated financial services market products?
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
732 c439GC 
Session
2010-12
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords Grand Committee
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