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Welfare Reform Bill

Debate on bills on Tuesday, 17 March 2009, in the House of Commons, led by James Purnell. The answering member was Baroness May of Maidenhead.
Welfare Reform Bill. Report stage. New clause 1, discussed with new clause 8 and amendments, debated and negatived on division (85 votes to 408). New clause 4, discussed with new clause 10, debated and agreed to on question. Amendments to clauses 1 and 2 debated and negatived on division. Third reading debate. Agreed to on question. Bill passed with amendments.
Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
489 c784-876 
Session
2008-09
Department
Department for Work and Pensions
Legislative stage
Third reading and Report stage
Procedure
New clauses
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Related items
Welfare Reform Bill. As amended in Public Bill Committee.
Tuesday, 3 March 2009
Bills
House of Commons
Proceeding contributions
Gordon Prentice | 489 c802 (Link to this contribution) Could the answer be relatively simple—that the Government want to drive down the civil service headc...
John McDonnell | 489 c802-3 (Link to this contribution) There is an argument that the Government, taking a very short-sighted approach, may well want to do ...

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Paul Rowen | 489 c804-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Hayes and Harlington (John McDonnell). My party and I...
Terry Rooney | 489 c807 (Link to this contribution) How about Sweden, Norway and Denmark?
Jeremy Corbyn | 489 c803 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend have any evidence on the comparative working conditions of those employed direct...
John McDonnell | 489 c803-4 (Link to this contribution) We are aware of some comparisons of wage rates, which are considerably lower in the private sector. ...
Paul Rowen | 489 c807 (Link to this contribution) There is some evidence, as the Chairman of the Select Committee on Work and Pensions says, but we ar...
Gordon Prentice | 489 c807 (Link to this contribution) How does that square with what the hon. Gentleman said earlier: a lone parent is in the best positio...
Paul Rowen | 489 c807 (Link to this contribution) There are examples elsewhere, but in places where there are much better systems in place to support ...
Paul Rowen | 489 c807-9 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. It clearly does not. There could be a whole set of individual c...
Karen Buck | 489 c810 (Link to this contribution) I want to speak primarily to new clause 8, which stands in my name and which delves back into the ar...
Paul Rowen | 489 c810 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady not accept that many of the amendments do not ignore such people, in that they pr...
Karen Buck | 489 c810-1 (Link to this contribution) I am not seeking to rubbish the amendments, many of which I agree with, either wholly or in part. Ho...
Lynne Jones | 489 c812 (Link to this contribution) I speak as one of those parents who went back to work when my children were only a few weeks' old, b...
Karen Buck | 489 c812 (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely right. The issue, as always, is finding a way through a number of conflicting obj...
Lynne Jones | 489 c812 (Link to this contribution) I agree that a child's well-being depends on the well-being of its parent. A parent who is happy and...
John Mason | 489 c812 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for giving way so generously. Once or twice in her speech she has used words s...
Karen Buck | 489 c813-4 (Link to this contribution) I think that Jobcentre Plus is capable of doing so and that it often does so, although it sometimes ...
James Clappison | 489 c792-3 (Link to this contribution) Such places may be available, but the Minister for Employment and Welfare Reform conceded in Committ...
Tom Harris | 489 c793 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman clarify something for me? He said a few moments ago that his party will have...
James Clappison | 489 c792 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I will. Perhaps the hon. Lady is going to tell us that they will not face such sanctions.
Meg Munn | 489 c792 (Link to this contribution) On the issue of the age of three, I have certainly visited a number of child care and Sure Start cen...
Neil Gerrard | 489 c795 (Link to this contribution) If the intention of Workfare is to help people into work, would my hon. Friend expect some evidence ...
John McDonnell | 489 c795-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his intervention, and I want to come on to that. I have trawled the diffe...
Paul Rowen | 489 c794 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman not accept that the big issue these days is not fraud, but mistakes committe...
John McDonnell | 489 c794-5 (Link to this contribution) I think the Bill introduces sanctions that, as we all know from our weekly advice surgeries, are usu...
James Clappison | 489 c793 (Link to this contribution) I give Ministers the credit of thinking that they want to listen to the debate. They may want to hea...
John McDonnell | 489 c793-4 (Link to this contribution) This is a large group of amendments and new clauses, some of which I shall wish to press to a vote. ...
John McDonnell | 489 c796-7 (Link to this contribution) The one objective piece of evidence provided to the Department was its own research, which found tha...
Sammy Wilson | 489 c797 (Link to this contribution) I listened carefully to the hon. Gentleman's proposal about people volunteering to go on such scheme...
John McDonnell | 489 c797 (Link to this contribution) We are all trying to ensure that we provide opportunities for people to gain the skills and support ...
Lynne Jones | 489 c797 (Link to this contribution) We know that those who participate voluntarily in schemes are much more successful in getting into w...
Jeremy Corbyn | 489 c796 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend have any evidence of what Workfare has achieved in the United States, where ther...
John McDonnell | 489 c798-802 (Link to this contribution) I understand what the hon. Gentleman is saying, and I accept that it is said with the best of intent...
John McDonnell | 489 c797-8 (Link to this contribution) The evidence confirms what my hon. Friend says. It relates to new clause 2 as much as it does to the...
John Mason | 489 c798 (Link to this contribution) I take the hon. Gentleman's point that we probably should not introduce more compulsion, but does he...
John McDonnell | 489 c798 (Link to this contribution) That relates to the point that my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Selly Oak (Lynne Jones) mad...
Sammy Wilson | 489 c798 (Link to this contribution) I take the hon. Gentleman's point that we are already dealing with people who are on the margins. Ho...
Speaker | 489 c832 (Link to this contribution) I ask the Serjeant at Arms to investigate the delay in the No Lobby.
John Robertson | 489 c836 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Lynne Jones | 489 c832 (Link to this contribution) I presume that my right hon. Friend is aware of the memorandum circulated from the DWP, which makes ...
Tony McNulty | 489 c832 (Link to this contribution) I have told my hon. Friend and others by way of answers to parliamentary questions that there are em...
Speaker | 489 c836 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss new clause 10—Mobility component of disability allowance—...
Tony McNulty | 489 c828 (Link to this contribution) Increasingly there is such an assessment. I have gone on record saying that we may need to, and shou...
Lynne Jones | 489 c829 (Link to this contribution) On that point, could my right hon. Friend have a word with the Prime Minister? It was certainly the ...
Tony McNulty | 489 c829-30 (Link to this contribution) The point that my hon. Friend misses slightly is that I think that the disparity between the amounts...
John Robertson | 489 c830 (Link to this contribution) Is my right hon. Friend telling me, then, that he has spoken to his counterparts north of the border...
Tony McNulty | 489 c830 (Link to this contribution) I am not telling my hon. Friend that I have spoken to Scottish Ministers since our Committee finishe...
Tony McNulty | 489 c830 (Link to this contribution) I will, because the hon. Gentleman did at least speak once in Committee, for which we are grateful.
Tony McNulty | 489 c830-1 (Link to this contribution) As devolution is dear to my heart, I fully accept that you do things differently, but we would rathe...
John Mason | 489 c830 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for giving way. I do not always agree that volume of words is better than fewer...
Tony McNulty | 489 c831-2 (Link to this contribution) For the reasons that my hon. Friend the Member for Regent's Park and Kensington, North suggested. Th...
Neil Gerrard | 489 c831 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend has just said, in relation to lone parents, that age was a red herring. If it i...
Lynne Jones | 489 c827 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend's interpretation of the views that I and other Labour Members expressed is a tr...
Tony McNulty | 489 c827 (Link to this contribution) I certainly was not suggesting that my hon. Friend was the least bit complacent. All that I am sugge...
David Winnick | 489 c826-7 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for what he has just said, but he used the phrase "wallow in u...
Tony McNulty | 489 c826 (Link to this contribution) Let me start by agreeing with the first comments made by my hon. Friend the Member for Walsall, Nort...
David Winnick | 489 c825-6 (Link to this contribution) I was present earlier for part of the debate, and I will not take very long. In fact, I will be very...
Terry Rooney | 489 c824-5 (Link to this contribution) The challenge of any scheme and any evaluation is to have a control model. I do not know whether tha...
Lynne Jones | 489 c824 (Link to this contribution) I endorse my hon. Friend's call for pilot schemes, but how does he envisage that the control scheme ...
Tony McNulty | 489 c827-8 (Link to this contribution) I agree that that is the starting point. That is the starting premise behind the Green Paper, the Wh...
Paul Rowen | 489 c828 (Link to this contribution) I accept the point that the Minister makes. Our point is that everyone should be assessed on day one...
Tony McNulty | 489 c827 (Link to this contribution) Yes, and as I understand it, that position prevails. As my hon. Friend the Member for Bradford, Nort...
James Clappison | 489 c827 (Link to this contribution) I support a great deal of what the right hon. Gentleman is saying, but does he think that it would h...
Paul Rowen | 489 c823 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has spoken about Jobcentre Plus, but does he accept that needs have changed becau...
Terry Rooney | 489 c822-3 (Link to this contribution) This is a difficult argument. Giving people the same intensive support at the start of a claim that ...
John Barrett | 489 c824 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman said that many former Woolworths employees were not claiming benefits, but does h...
Terry Rooney | 489 c823-4 (Link to this contribution) I take the hon. Gentleman's point, but I want to say a couple of things about former employees of Wo...
John McDonnell | 489 c820-1 (Link to this contribution) I do not know why my hon. Friend is dismissive, quite honestly. We have engaged in a fruitful debate...
Paul Rowen | 489 c822 (Link to this contribution) I listened carefully to what the hon. Gentleman said about Jobcentre Plus being good in the early da...
Terry Rooney | 489 c821-2 (Link to this contribution) That argument suggests that if a person stays on benefit for 25 years, they will still be subject to...
Terry Rooney | 489 c824 (Link to this contribution) That is a convenient excuse. About 1,800 former Woolworths employees retired, having reached or even...
Tom Harris | 489 c824 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Edinburgh, West (John Barrett) makes a valid point, but the fact that a claimant...
Terry Rooney | 489 c824 (Link to this contribution) I think that I have been on that subject long enough. I want to move on. Some of the amendments tha...
Lynne Jones | 489 c820 (Link to this contribution) I think that the Secretary of State has acknowledged that even the pathways to work programme has no...
Terry Rooney | 489 c819 (Link to this contribution) There are different definitions of voluntary. The schemes are largely voluntary, but I think that th...
John McDonnell | 489 c819 (Link to this contribution) The Government's scheme is called "work for your benefit", so I think that it can be translated into...
Terry Rooney | 489 c818-9 (Link to this contribution) I wish to speak to amendments 42 to 47. Amendments 42 to 45 deal with clause 1, which covers "work f...
John Robertson | 489 c818 (Link to this contribution) A probing amendment is just that. If their lordships want to press this issue to a vote, that is up ...
Terry Rooney | 489 c820 (Link to this contribution) Last month, 200,000 people left benefits for work. People seem to think that the whole economy has f...
Lynne Jones | 489 c820 (Link to this contribution) I agree that if somebody has a job offer and real job opportunities, that is one thing. However, man...
Terry Rooney | 489 c820 (Link to this contribution) It has been far more successful than any other programme. It still gets a low level of people into w...
John Robertson | 489 c818 (Link to this contribution) I would rather hear from the Conservatives, but I will give way to the hon. Gentleman.
John Mason | 489 c818 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Karen Buck | 489 c814 (Link to this contribution) I do not disagree with that. No system of benefits can survive without sanctions. They are an essent...
John McDonnell | 489 c814 (Link to this contribution) I wholeheartedly share my hon. Friend's views on incentivisation—we have discussed that—and on sanct...
John Mason | 489 c815 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman not think that if that young woman had the opportunity of a higher income, s...
John Howell | 489 c814-5 (Link to this contribution) I must express my disappointment that there are so many wrecking amendments from Labour and Liberal ...
John Robertson | 489 c816-7 (Link to this contribution) Before I discuss my amendment 36, I wish to congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, S...
John Howell | 489 c815 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his question, but the answer to it must be no. I had the benefit of s...
John Robertson | 489 c817-8 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, which is one more than he made when we had this dis...
John Mason | 489 c817 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman suggests that Scotland's house is not in order. Does he accept that in some ways ...
John Mason | 489 c818 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman is so passionate about this issue, why will he not press amendment 36 to a vot...
Sammy Wilson | 489 c847-8 (Link to this contribution) The very fact that this measure has gained such widespread support across the House shows that we ar...
Sammy Wilson | 489 c847 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Glasgow, North-West (John Robertson) on tabling the new clause, a...
John Barrett | 489 c847 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the sense of unfairness felt by those who are visually impaired s...
Anne Begg | 489 c845-6 (Link to this contribution) I, too, would like to thank my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, North-West (John Robertson) for t...
John Robertson | 489 c844 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that perhaps we should get that very maze into Westminster Hall, in ...
Anne McGuire | 489 c844-5 (Link to this contribution) I have already made that suggestion to the RNIB. The maze was a fantastic way of describing, to thos...
Steve Webb | 489 c844 (Link to this contribution) We often find ourselves in a maze.
Anne McGuire | 489 c844 (Link to this contribution) The Liberal party is always in a maze, but there we are.
Anne McGuire | 489 c844 (Link to this contribution) I, too, would like to thank my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, North-West (John Robertson) for t...
Jonathan Shaw | 489 c855 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has a policy on inheritance tax—he has made it clear that he wants to give millio...
Speaker | 489 c863 (Link to this contribution) Before I call the Secretary of State, may I inform the House that Mr. Speaker has not selected the a...
James Purnell | 489 c863-4 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time. I thank Members from all parts of the Hous...
Philip Hollobone | 489 c864 (Link to this contribution) In the last debate, it was difficult to spot any reference by Her Majesty's Government to when the n...
Gordon Marsden | 489 c850-1 (Link to this contribution) I join everyone else who has spoken this evening in paying great tribute to the tenacity of my hon. ...
Russell Brown | 489 c851-2 (Link to this contribution) Let me begin by thanking my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, North-West (John Robertson) for tabl...
Jonathan Shaw | 489 c852-4 (Link to this contribution) This has been a very good debate, which has encapsulated the excellent campaign by the RNIB. I congr...
Mark Harper | 489 c854 (Link to this contribution) What the Minister is not saying, of course, is that I listened very carefully to what he said in Com...
Roger Berry | 489 c848-9 (Link to this contribution) I will not detain the House long, as I have very little to add to what has already been said. I woul...
Philip Hollobone | 489 c849 (Link to this contribution) It must be a terrible thing to be blind, and I have no hesitation whatever in supporting the new cla...
John Mason | 489 c867 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State agree that some of the money that is to be cut from benefits to drug dea...
Mike Wood (Batley and Spen) | 489 c866 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State make it clear whether he thinks that the amount of treatment necessary i...
James Purnell | 489 c866-7 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I am happy to give my hon. Friend that assurance. We will ensure that we pilot the scheme in ar...
James Purnell | 489 c865 (Link to this contribution) I will tell the hon. Gentleman; I will quote to him what the Leader of the Opposition said when thes...
James Purnell | 489 c864-5 (Link to this contribution) I pay tribute to the fact that the hon. Gentleman raised that issue at oral questions yesterday. Yes...
Paul Rowen | 489 c866 (Link to this contribution) I am listening carefully to what the Secretary of State is saying. Why did he not support the amendm...
James Purnell | 489 c866 (Link to this contribution) Those people actually receive a greater premium. They receive £40 if they are outside London and £60...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 489 c865 (Link to this contribution) I am not quite sure where the right hon. Gentleman has been this evening because he obviously has no...
James Purnell | 489 c865-6 (Link to this contribution) That is simply not correct because I was here. The right hon. Lady was not in the Chamber. I have be...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 489 c868-9 (Link to this contribution) I join the Secretary of State in thanking all those who were involved in the Bill's passage and all ...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 489 c868 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Secretary of State. It was not entirely clear whether he had finished his speec...
James Purnell | 489 c868 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady's party has just voted against it in the last Division. I do not know what plane...
James Purnell | 489 c867 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's Freudian slip is exactly the problem. If we do not help people to get clean fro...
Steve Webb | 489 c867 (Link to this contribution) Has the Secretary of State considered the extent to which forced treatment, whereby patients are thr...
James Purnell | 489 c867 (Link to this contribution) Yes, we absolutely have. We work closely with the Department of Health and we are not forcing people...
Bob Spink | 489 c867 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State consider Essex as one of the pilot areas and continue to focus on creati...
James Purnell | 489 c867-8 (Link to this contribution) I am very happy to consider whether Essex would be a good candidate, and I would be happy for the ho...
Speaker | 489 c868 (Link to this contribution) Order. To be clear, has the Secretary of State finished, or is he giving way?
John Robertson | 489 c837 (Link to this contribution) Let me think about that—yeah, okay. I was looking to see whether the hon. Gentleman had been reading...
Bob Spink | 489 c837 (Link to this contribution) Before the hon. Gentleman moves on, may I congratulate him on his work in tabling new clause 4? Is h...
John Robertson | 489 c836-7 (Link to this contribution) The new clause is self-explanatory and needs little introduction, but the clarity and familiarity of...
John Robertson | 489 c838-9 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend, who is obviously the best MP in Dundee—or so he tells me, and I have no reas...
Jim McGovern | 489 c838 (Link to this contribution) I, too, commend my hon. Friend for his work on this matter. My constituent Claire Hansen is an artic...
John Robertson | 489 c837-8 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend says that the hon. Gentleman will. I look forward to it. He is a great gentleman and ...
Mark Harper | 489 c839 (Link to this contribution) I have only just begun, and if the right hon. Lady will allow me, I shall get on with my remarks. He...
Anne McGuire | 489 c839 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman cut to the chase and tell us whether he and the Opposition will support the ...
Mark Harper | 489 c839 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Member for Glasgow, North-West (John Robertson) has put his case very well and powerfully, ...
Mark Harper | 489 c839-41 (Link to this contribution) I am just coming to my remarks about that. The Government accepted that the funding of the change wa...
Mark Harper | 489 c841 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman should recognise that, as the official Opposition, we cannot find any money becau...
Roger Berry | 489 c841 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman claiming in all seriousness that the official Opposition, having considered th...
Mark Harper | 489 c841 (Link to this contribution) I have just explained that we have never objected to the proposal in principle. If the Government te...
Roger Berry | 489 c841 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is prepared to support substantial tax cuts for the very wealthy, which cost far ...
Steve Webb | 489 c842-3 (Link to this contribution) It would be presumptuous to add much more to the powerful case that the right hon. Member for Sheffi...
Lord Blunkett | 489 c841-2 (Link to this contribution) First, I think that, mischievously, I should declare an interest because I am a vice-president of th...
Steve Webb | 489 c843-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has quoted from the RNIB's letter to hon. Members. The RNIB estimates that 22,000...
Philip Hollobone | 489 c843 (Link to this contribution) According to the standard letter from the RNIB to MPs—I was pleased to receive several letters from ...
Speaker | 489 c876 (Link to this contribution) Order. No, the right hon. Lady has put the matter on the record, and we will end it at that.
James Purnell | 489 c876 (Link to this contribution) Further to that point of order, Mr. Speaker, and to correct myself—
Speaker | 489 c876 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Lady has put the record straight.
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 489 c876 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. I actually said that there were 85 votes against amendment 11, and...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 489 c869-70 (Link to this contribution) I did indeed vote in the last Division, and in favour of an amendment to the Bill which we moved. Ho...
James Purnell | 489 c869 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Lady acknowledge that her party leader called the proposal shameful and will she...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 489 c870-1 (Link to this contribution) I suggest that the Minister looks at Hansard to see what he said yesterday, because he did indeed re...
Jonathan Shaw | 489 c870 (Link to this contribution) For clarification, I did not say what the right hon. Lady says I did. She should read the transcript...
Baroness May of Maidenhead | 489 c871 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the Secretary of State for that intervention. This is an important issue, and I sha...
James Purnell | 489 c871 (Link to this contribution) We believe that that is already the case, but I can definitely give the right hon. Lady that reassur...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 489 c873-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to be called to speak in this debate. It seems that I might be the only Member who wan...
Steve Webb | 489 c871-3 (Link to this contribution) The Bill has two redeeming features. One is the additional powers and control that disabled people w...
John Mason | 489 c875-6 (Link to this contribution) We have seen a major U-turn by the Government. We welcome the increase in disability living allowanc...
Speaker | 489 c876 (Link to this contribution) Does the Secretary of State wish to reply?
James Purnell | 489 c876 (Link to this contribution) Just on a point of accuracy, Mr. Speaker, since you ask me. In her opening remarks the right hon. Me...
John McDonnell | 489 c786 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend tabled two excellent new clauses, the first of which would remove the younger rate ha...
Lynne Jones | 489 c787 (Link to this contribution) The other new clause that I tabled, which unfortunately was not selected, would have increased the b...
Steve Webb | 489 c787 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes a very important point. Does she recall that the background of less money being ...
Lynne Jones | 489 c786-7 (Link to this contribution) I had finally got round to appreciating what my hon. Friend said, but I thank him for his interventi...
John Redwood | 489 c787 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Lady give us an idea of what she thinks would be a fair level of unemployment benefit?...
Lynne Jones | 489 c786 (Link to this contribution) Mr. Speaker, I am somewhat surprised to be called as I had not realised that my new clause had been ...
Speaker | 489 c784 (Link to this contribution) With this it will be convenient to discuss the following: New clause 8—Work related activity: payme...
Lynne Jones | 489 c784 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.
Lynne Jones | 489 c786 (Link to this contribution) I am not even sure which measure I am speaking to, but I am advised by my hon. Friend that this new ...
John McDonnell | 489 c786 (Link to this contribution) This is the removal of the younger rate.
James Clappison | 489 c789-90 (Link to this contribution) I have made it clear, I hope, that we will not support the proposals made by the hon. Member for Bir...
James Clappison | 489 c790 (Link to this contribution) I give way to the hon. Gentleman, although I think that I know what he is going to say.
James Plaskitt | 489 c790 (Link to this contribution) Is the hon. Gentleman telling the House that he has junked the policy of the social justice policy g...
James Clappison | 489 c788-9 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Lady, although I do not agree with the substance of her amendmen...
Paul Rowen | 489 c789 (Link to this contribution) Does the Conservative party believe that we should discriminate against young people in the amount o...
Lynne Jones | 489 c788 (Link to this contribution) No, I do not envisage that, because I believe that it is fundamentally wrong to discriminate against...
Bob Spink | 489 c787-8 (Link to this contribution) The new clause is laudable, and in an ideal world we would all want to support it, but can the hon. ...
Lynne Jones | 489 c787 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely, and I have personal experience of that. I had to leave home at 18, before I went t...
Tom Harris | 489 c788 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend started her comments by explaining that the new clause was motivated by a concern for...
Lynne Jones | 489 c788 (Link to this contribution) I do not have the precise total figures, but it would be £750 a year for each unemployed young perso...
Meg Munn | 489 c792 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
John Grogan | 489 c791-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making a persuasive case, and I hope that those on my Front Bench will listen ...
James Clappison | 489 c790-1 (Link to this contribution) I was going to turn to that point, but as the hon. Gentleman is there already I will deal with it no...
Paul Rowen | 489 c839 (Link to this contribution) I accept the hon. Gentleman's point about the nation's finances, but does he accept that the job of ...
James Clappison | 489 c792 (Link to this contribution) To be fair to the Government, they have said that they foresee that there will be discussions and in...
Terry Rooney | 489 c819-20 (Link to this contribution) No, my hon. Friend will have to wait. He spoke for 40 minutes; will he let me have a go for five min...
Karen Buck | 489 c812 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that there is any difference of opinion between us. We should not get hung up on whet...
John Butterfill | 489 c845 (Link to this contribution) When I entered the House in 1983, there was no mobility allowance for blind people, who were not reg...
Subjects
Disability living allowance
Contracts
Childcare
Benefits rules
Department for Work and Pensions
Equality
Jobseeker's allowance
Income support
Jobcentres
Eligibility
Disqualification
Domestic abuse
Drugs
Jobcentre Plus
Employment services
Mental illness
Private sector
Low incomes
Poverty
Misuse
Staff
Lone parents
Scotland
Social security
Social security benefits
Visual impairment
Rehabilitation
Young people
Unemployment benefits
Reform
Welfare state
Work experience
Unemployment
Sanctions
Welfare to work
Pathways to work
Legislation
Welfare Reform Bill 2008-09
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