Parliamentary search - Welfare Reform Bill

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Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

713 c1105-39

Session

2008-09

Department

Department for Work and Pensions

Legislative stage

Report stage

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House of Lords chamber

Welfare Reform Bill. As amended on Report.
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Bills
House of Lords

Welfare Reform Bill. As amended in Grand Committee.
Tuesday, 7 July 2009
Bills
House of Lords

Proceeding contributions

Baroness Crawley | 713 c1126-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this group of amendments was first tabled in Committee but subsequently withdrawn followin...

Baroness Thomas of Winchester | 713 c1127-8 (Link to this contribution) 87A: Schedule 6, page 95, line 23 at end insert— "(1A) The father of the child does not automaticall...

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Lord McKenzie of Luton | 713 c1124-6 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the noble Lord’s clarification. The noble Lord, Lord Freud, referred to somebody’...

Lord Freud | 713 c1126 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am delighted that the word "churlish" is to be banished from considerations in this Hous...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 713 c1126 (Link to this contribution) 84: Schedule 6, page 93, line 28, after "subsection" insert "by regulations made by the Minister" A...

Baroness Crawley | 713 c1126 (Link to this contribution) 85: Schedule 6, page 94, leave out lines 12 to 19 and insert— "(6) The Minister may by regulations p...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 713 c1124 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Freud, for the amendment and I thank other noble Lords who ha...

Lord Northbourne | 713 c1124 (Link to this contribution) My understanding was that, if there were a sunset clause, that would make the Government think again...

Baroness Crawley | 713 c1119 (Link to this contribution) 70: Clause 34, page 40, line 12, leave out "(2)(d)" and insert "(2)(e)" Amendment 70 agreed. Claus...

Baroness Crawley | 713 c1120-1 (Link to this contribution) 74: Clause 40, page 44, line 9, after "33" insert "or an order under section (Power to repeal exclus...

Baroness Crawley | 713 c1120 (Link to this contribution) 73: After Clause 39, insert the following new Clause— "Power to repeal exclusion of community care s...

Baroness Crawley | 713 c1120 (Link to this contribution) 72: Clause 36, page 42, line 4, at end insert— "(3A) Subsections (5)(a) and (6)(a) of section 31 do ...

Baroness Crawley | 713 c1119-20 (Link to this contribution) 71: Clause 35, page 41, line 28, leave out "(2)(d)" and insert "(2)(e)" Amendment 71 agreed. Claus...

Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope | 713 c1122-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the amendments. If the noble Lord, Lord Freud, presses them, I will happily foll...

Lord Freud | 713 c1121-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am proposing this set of amendments, which I consider to be consequential on the first o...

Lord Freud | 713 c1121 (Link to this contribution) 79: Clause 43, page 48, line 42, at end insert "or a travel authorisation"

Baroness Crawley | 713 c1121 (Link to this contribution) 77: Clause 41, page 44, line 18, at end insert— ""community care services" means— (a) in relation to...

Lord Northbourne | 713 c1123-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am inclined to support the amendment. It is important that we make it clear to all poten...

Lord Freud | 713 c1115-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am pleased to add my name to this set of amendments alongside those of the Minister, the...

Baroness Thomas of Winchester | 713 c1115 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we strongly support the amendments. My only regret is that the noble Baroness, Lady Campbe...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 713 c1117 (Link to this contribution) 65: Clause 31, page 38, line 13, at end insert— "(4A) Subsection (4) is subject to section 36(3A) (w...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 713 c1116-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in support of these amendments. I shall start, if ...

Baroness Crawley | 713 c1117-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in moving Amendment 68, I shall also speak to Amendments 69 to 71. In Committee debates o...

Baroness Crawley | 713 c1117 (Link to this contribution) 68: Clause 33, page 39, line 16, leave out subsection (2) and insert— "(2) Regulations under this se...

Lord Freud | 713 c1119 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, once again we support this set of amendments, alongside the Government, the Liberal Democr...

Lady Saltoun of Abernethy | 713 c1118-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hope that this amendment is going to do something for the kind of case I have very much ...

Baroness Crawley | 713 c1119 (Link to this contribution) I thank noble Lords for their responses. In reply to the noble Lady, Lady Saltoun, I do not know per...

Baroness Crawley | 713 c1119 (Link to this contribution) 69: Clause 33, page 39, line 33, leave out paragraph (c) Amendment 69 agreed. Clause 34 : Provisio...

Baroness Turner of Camden | 713 c1113 (Link to this contribution) I thank everybody who has participated in the debate, and my noble friend for the further assurances...

Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope | 713 c1112 (Link to this contribution) I am persuaded by the process that the Minister is explaining to the House, but he might make more p...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 713 c1111-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank my noble friend for her amendment and all noble Lords who have spoken. Let me reit...

Baroness Park of Monmouth | 713 c1111 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I also strongly support the amendment of the noble Baroness, Lady Turner of Camden. I feel...

Countess of Mar | 713 c1111 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, perhaps I may ask the noble Lord what the difference is between changing the name of this ...

Lord Mayhew of Twysden | 713 c1111 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, just to encourage the Minister, perhaps I may remind him that recent polling for the Royal...

Baroness Campbell of Surbiton | 713 c1114-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, happy days! While many of us were having our summer holidays, the Minister and his officia...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 713 c1113 (Link to this contribution) 64: Clause 31, page 38, line 7, at end insert— "( ) the provision of residential accommodation for P...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 713 c1113-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall speak also to the other government amendments in the group. As noble Lords will re...

Baroness Turner of Camden | 713 c1107-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank my noble friend for his statement in support of the amendment before the House. Wh...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 713 c1106-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will speak also to the other government amendment in this group. Today we return to an i...

Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope | 713 c1108-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, for the sake of completeness, I shall make this all-party. The campaign that the Royal Bri...

Lord Freud | 713 c1108 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we welcome the government amendment. As the Minister said, the noble Baroness, Lady Turner...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 713 c1105-6 (Link to this contribution) 62: After Clause 28, insert the following new Clause— "Power to rename council tax benefit (1) The S...

Countess of Mar | 713 c1109 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, did the noble Lord say that he was thinking about coming back at Third Reading with a shor...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 713 c1109-10 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful for the support that the amendment has received from the noble Lord, Lord Fr...

Baroness Turner of Camden | 713 c1110 (Link to this contribution) 63: After Clause 28, insert the following new Clause— "Income-related benefits In section 123(1)(e) ...

Baroness Turner of Camden | 713 c1110-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I moved this amendment in Committee, when I had a very sympathetic response from the Minis...

Baroness Crawley | 713 c1134 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank noble Lords for this short but very important debate. We had an extensive debate i...

Baroness Thomas of Winchester | 713 c1134 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, surely the compulsory birth registration of unmarried parents is a new system. We are seek...

Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws | 713 c1130-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the amendment. I remind the Minister that I took part at an earlier stage of the...

Baroness Butler-Sloss | 713 c1131-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the amendment. First, I apologise to the House that I have not been here so far ...

Baroness Afshar | 713 c1132 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I add my support and thanks for the changes that have been made and for the acceptance of ...

Lord Northbourne | 713 c1132 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the amendment has been powerfully spoken to and I shall not add anything except to say tha...

Lord Freud | 713 c1132-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have listened with care to the arguments put forward by the noble Baroness, Lady Thomas,...

Baroness Howe of Idlicote | 713 c1133 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I had not intended to speak to this amendment but, having heard what the previous speaker ...

Lord Lyell of Markyate | 713 c1133 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, come lately to this issue, but I have been listening to the argument. The argument...

Countess of Mar | 713 c1133-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I, too, support the amendment. As the noble Baroness, Lady Kennedy, said, it seems unfair ...

Baroness Crawley | 713 c1134 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I understand that and I say to the noble Baroness, Lady Thomas, that none of us wants to s...

Baroness Thomas of Winchester | 713 c1137 (Link to this contribution) Can the noble Baroness just tell me whether she rules out an amendment from the government now or no...

Baroness Thomas of Winchester | 713 c1137 (Link to this contribution) I am not asking for a cut-and-dried guarantee, I am just asking for the possibility—as long as the n...

Baroness Crawley | 713 c1137 (Link to this contribution) Before the noble Baroness sits down, I cannot give that assurance that there will be an amendment at...

Baroness Thomas of Winchester | 713 c1136-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have supported the amendment. We heard some powerful contribut...

Baroness Crawley | 713 c1137 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, while of course we would remain open to the experience and advice that we as a department ...

Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay | 713 c1135 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether I can clarify that. Is the Minister saying that she will offer a meeting to discuss...

Baroness Crawley | 713 c1135-6 (Link to this contribution) I listened extremely carefully. Noble Lords would expect me to show great respect to the noble and l...

Baroness Butler-Sloss | 713 c1134 (Link to this contribution) The problem is not the birth registration but the granting of parental responsibility which follows ...

Baroness Crawley | 713 c1134-5 (Link to this contribution) I understand that. Of course I listen very carefully to the great experience of the noble and learne...

Lord Northbourne | 713 c1138 (Link to this contribution) Am I right in thinking that it would be perfectly open to the noble Baroness to bring back her amend...

Baroness Crawley | 713 c1138 (Link to this contribution) The noble Baroness is entitled to raise an amendment, if she wishes to; she is entitled to test the ...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 713 c1139 (Link to this contribution) 97: Clause 50, page 52, line 4, after "provisions);" insert— "section (Power to rename council tax b...

Baroness Crawley | 713 c1138 (Link to this contribution) That is a matter for the noble Baroness.

Baroness Thomas of Winchester | 713 c1138 (Link to this contribution) I think that I will accept the positive attitude on the part of the Government and the meeting and, ...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 713 c1138 (Link to this contribution) 88: Schedule 6, page 95, line 32, leave out "and" 89: Schedule 6, page 95, line 35, at end insert ...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 713 c1138-9 (Link to this contribution) 93: Schedule 7, page 105, line 34, column 2, leave out "and (3)(a)" and insert ", (3)(a), (7A), (8)(...

Baroness Crawley | 713 c1127 (Link to this contribution) 86: Schedule 6, page 94, line 45, leave out "and" 87: Schedule 6, page 95, line 2, at end insert "...

Baroness Thomas of Winchester | 713 c1128-30 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this amendment is different from the one I moved in Grand Committee on the subject of join...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 713 c1112-3 (Link to this contribution) I understand the noble Lord’s point. I cannot give an absolute assurance because it depends on a lot...

Subjects

Council tax benefits

Disability

Children

Community care

Domestic abuse

Maintenance

Pensioners

Passports

Parental responsibility

Reform

Welfare state